One of the basic concepts of Precision Point Training is that progression occurs by giving your body time to adapt to the same workouts so that they become easier. This will occur if you are getting stronger because a given…
Learning from Baseball If you have ever played baseball, you know that baseball players like to do warmup swings with a weighted ring at the end of the bat. A player will then take the weight off the end of…
Sticking points are the worst. You train and stay the same and just keep training and staying the same. There are different philosophies for overcoming a sticking point. In this article, I will discuss some of these philosophies. Blast Through…
John was a brand new to weight training and could only bench press 100 pounds for 8 reps. He was advised to keep on using 100 pounds until he improved to the point where he could perform 10 reps. Once…
In the next few articles, I will be discussing the importance of setting the body up for an easy adaptation to strength. Often times people train in a way that will make it hard for their body to adapt.…
I have mentioned in some of my past articles that the body makes adaptive choices according to what it thinks will make an exercise stress easier. If a strength adaptation is the best way to make an exercise stress easier, then the body…
If you look at a lifters strength level during a workout, they often workout in such a way so that their strength will start out high. At some point, fatigue sets in and strength will steadily diminish until the workout…
Using Anticipation to Your Advantage When you see circumstances in which the same thing occurs again and again, it becomes predictable. When something is predictable you begin to anticipate that it will happen. We all anticipate things in life. We…
What is a Threshold and Why are they Important for Training? Over the decades of my training experience, the principles of Precision Point Training have slowly formed in my mind. One of the major things that led to the formation…
One Choice or Multiple Choice Workout Results? When I train for strength, I want to train in such a way that I create conditions that will give my body one choice; the choice being to get stronger. If I create…
