In my earliest years of weight training, I had the philosophy that the longer I worked out, the better results I would get. It didn’t work. I was not aware of how important recovery was for training success. One reason…
Important Aspects of Recovery Over the past few articles, I have been discussing the various components of the SRRR profile. The letters SRRR represent the components that consist of: S=Stimulation of strength R=Recovery from a workout R=Retention of strength between…
How much weight should you use to gain strength? There are all kinds of philosophies. The one rep max method, which was popularized by Ivan Abadjev was the primary component of training for the Bulgarians from the 1970’s and…
In my last article I introduced the concept of everyone possessing their own SRRR profile. The four letters within SRRR stand for four strength training factors that should be considered. These four factors consist of Stimulation-Recovery-Retention-Readiness. In this…
We are not all the same. Many of us already know that, but still become enticed by the idea that if there is a Mr. Mega Body or Mr. Mega Strength out there and we should train exactly the way…
