Blast From the Past
Blast From the Past These are the two old articles I wrote in 2005 and 2006. Yes I know, time flies. The Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training was published on EliteFTS (I think couple of times) and w…
Tag: Strength Training
Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6
I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It i…
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 5: Do we need this complexity
What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile
In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion.
I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it b…
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile
In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MV…
How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile
I am repeating the data from the previous part before I start with the analysis and visualization. As you can see my 1RM in bench press with ~2-sec pause is 117.5kg and Ivan’s is 140kg.
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training – Part 1: Testing
When it comes to traditional strength training prescription (a.k.a percent based approach) one uses his latest 1RMs and prescribe 3 to 4, or longer strength training cycle using percentages and reps (e.g. Week1: 5×5 w/8…
Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes
Regardless of your training objectives (increasing strength in specific lifts, increasing strength overall, bulking up, leaning out, rehabilitation, maintenance, etc), key training parameters (intensity, volume, frequenc…
Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 2
Overview of the process - As I have alluded to in the beginning of this article, training objectives will demand certain training parameters within which we can employ various progressions and variations, termed set and …
Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 1
The article will be published in two parts. Part one deals more with terminology and something that I call ‘intensity trinity’. I hope that this terminology will become standard in our field/industry.
