The single rep loading wave is a four-week loading cycle that is designed to help you peak for heavy single rep lifting. The cycle is based on poundages that are calculated as percentages of your single rep max for each…
Some of my favorite lifters are: Richard Hawthorne, Charles Staley, Eric Spoto, and Andrey Malanichev. As much as I admire them, I don’t train like them at all because they all tend to prefer low frequency training, and I have…
You can focus your training on one or more of several training factors including: Load relative to your single rep max, training intensity relative to max reps, maximum rep speed, training density, and total workload. Theses training factors make…
Over the course of the last three articles, I have been discussing five different training stresses that trigger gains in strength and muscle mass. These triggers include: Load relative to percentage of a single rep max Intensity relative to max…
Most strength training strategies incorporate a variety of different weights for the purpose of gaining strength. There are tons of periodization strategies to help people do this. However, there are some training methods that focus primarily on heavy lifting. Perhaps…
