I traveled down to Memphis again this past weekend and was fortunate enough to train at the strength training haven that is NBS Fitness. From a program standpoint, I was supposed to be hitting dynamic lower work but when I get the opportunity to train with a sponsored Elitefts athlete such as I did here with Christian…
I ended up having to make last week a half deload, half post meet volume week due my restriction on equipment while I was on vacation. Coming off of that I am completing this one final week of volume training before jumping right into heavy offseason work. I am emphasizing my recovery protocol even during…
One of the most common questions that I get in realms of training with a conjugate programming method is how I keep track of all my personal records (PR’s) considering there is essentially an unlimited number of variations available. Tracking your training and personal records is a vital step to long term improvement in the…
As per Brandon’s instruction my speed work this week has me going back to the first week of the program for the sets, percentages, and reps to be used. I traveled down to Purdue today and ended up training at the corec for my dynamic upper session this week. It is about that time of…
Unfortunately with my busier schedule lately I will not be able to provide a brief synopsis of each article that I read that makes the list, but the same great content can continue to be found here! YOKED: 4 Exercises for Massive Traps – Demmy James 7 Exercises to Hip Hinge Domination – Trish…
The PRs are still coming down as I finished out my max effort work for this week in today’s training. Today is was a heavy single on deficit deadlift that saw improvement in the record books. The session went as follows… Stretch and Warm-Up Deficit Conventional Deadlift 135×5, 225×5, 275×5, 315×3, 365×3, 405×3, 435×2, 455×1,…
The third straight day of training is finally finished and I have officially made the move into my new training day split. I will now be training Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays with my upper body days preceding my lower body days as they have been. In the past when I have training heavy for…
