The Impact of Training to Failure in CrossFit, Bodybuilding and Olympic Lifting
To Fail or not to fail… Training to failure is a topic of prime importance these days. Failure can be defined in a couple different ways: In the Olympic lifting world, failure is defined by missing a rep. In Bodybuilding, failure is the result of training a movement...
Strength vs Hypertrophy
With a small tweak, the same program can work for either goal I love Mondays. I wasn’t always able to say this. In the past, Mondays were the most dreaded day, because it meant another 5-day work week in corporate America. Mondays now represent the beginning of...
Soreness DOMS
Soreness When we train, we get sore. This seems to be a trend. Train hard, put in the effort, and you are rewarded with muscle soreness, or DOMS, as it is called (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness). Today, I want to delve a little deeper into the phenomenon of DOMS. Is it...
Perfect Practice
Perfect Practice: Creating Good Habits 100 Power Cleans On Saturday afternoon, it was pouring rain. That same morning, at 6:15am, I was shaken out of deep sleep by the skies splitting open; the loudest strike of thunder I had heard in my eight years in San Diego. With...
Energy Systems 2
In part 1 of the article, I discussed the Anaerobic system. I mentioned that anaerobic training is easily identified by the rest period being longer than the working period. In contrast, Aerobic work is defined by the rest period being shorter than the work period....Recent Posts
Linear Periodization Enhanced for Strength AND Hypertrophy
Linear Periodization (LP) is the original approach to periodizing training. It is the basis for so many other periodization models, …
The 6-Week Metabolic Cycle
Following the 7-week strength cycle, we move directly into a 6-week “Metabolic” phase, starting with the typical Introduction/Deload week. After …
The 7-Week Strength Cycle
Let’s Get Strong! This 7-week cycle strength cycle is part of the larger periodization model we follow at Evolved throughout …