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 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 Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 2 Chris Olson, SSC | July 30, 2024 In Part 1, we discussed sport-specific conditioning. We continue here by looking at the importance of sport-specific skill and strength, and then begin a discussion about a different class of tempting exercises that the serious athletes will learn to avoid. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
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 Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 2 Chris Olson, SSC | July 30, 2024 In Part 1, we discussed sport-specific conditioning. We continue here by looking at the importance of sport-specific skill and strength, and then begin a discussion about a different class of tempting exercises that the serious athletes will learn to avoid. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 3 Chris Olson, SSC | August 06, 2024 In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 2 Chris Olson, SSC | July 30, 2024 In Part 1, we discussed sport-specific conditioning. We continue here by looking at the importance of sport-specific skill and strength, and then begin a discussion about a different class of tempting exercises that the serious athletes will learn to avoid. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Part 2 Chris Olson, SSC | July 30, 2024 In Part 1, we discussed sport-specific conditioning. We continue here by looking at the importance of sport-specific skill and strength, and then begin a discussion about a different class of tempting exercises that the serious athletes will learn to avoid. Continue reading Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? Chris Olson, SSC | June 12, 2024 My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem... Continue reading
