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Archive for November 28th, 2008

The other side of the arm

People prefer to train certain body parts over others… nothing wrong with that as we all have (and are entitled to) our particular likes and dislikes. Over time, preference will shape your physique. It also proves my point

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Are your aerobics sufficiently intense?

You hear a lot of talk about how important it is to apply incredible intensity to our weight training efforts. And with good reason; unless you train as hard and heavy as possible substantial physical change is not going to occur. Why should it? Unless we push and extend ourselves, unless we stretch the boundaries and continually seek to improve, either by increasing the repetitions or poundage, what is the physical incentive for the human body to change itself? If working at or below your current limits produced results then progress would occur in a never-ending continual stream. Logic and commonsense tell us that real results only occur in response to real effort; only by exceeding and extending physical capacity do we build new muscle tissue.

Friday, November 28th, 2008