Programming a Smooth NLP Scott Acosta, SSC | October 23, 2024 As simple as the Novice Linear Progression (NLP) is, there is an awful lot of opportunity to mess it up. Mistakes usually come at points when a slight program adjustment is needed, but either too drastic a change is made or no change is made at all. This leads to lots of preventable problems. Continue reading
Regrets as a Novice Lifter Deborah Lebl | September 30, 2024 Consider me your peer. I will not speak to you as an authority on strength training, but simply as someone who gets it. “It” being your experience as a novice lifter. This is not a customer testimonial. I will not talk about how I got great results from Starting Strength. What I will do, however, is validate for you what Starting Strength claims to be true – that it is the single best method for novice lifters to get strong. Continue reading
Mongo and Randy Jim Steel | September 26, 2024 “I'm tired of being weak and looking like shit," Mongo said to Randy as they sat on the outside serving deck of the Bearded Clam Bar and Grill in Bayville, Maryland, having lunch and a few beers... Continue reading
A First-Principles Approach to Hypertrophy Yago Ferreiros, PhD | September 17, 2024 Hypertrophy is a hot topic nowadays. The fitness industry seems to generally distinguish “hypertrophy” training from strength training, and there are receipts everywhere on how to specialize your training for one or the other. There is a fair amount of peer-reviewed research on the topic, and most theories and claims are based on the findings of these works. However, there seems to be an alarming lack of deductive reasoning: conclusions have to follow logically from premises. Continue reading
Safety in a Barbell Training Gym Mark Rippetoe | September 09, 2024 A long time ago, barbells were thought to be dangerous. This was a common belief among doctors, your grandparents, gym teachers, real estate salesmen, guys who maintained swimming pools, the manager at the YMCA, and other people who did not train with barbells. Continue reading