Weightlifting Program Plan: Be Flexible With the Prescriptions

The next situation is in a program in which the trainer wants the powerlifter to workout as intense as possible on any given session. This may mean aspiring to a single maximal or near-maximal set (perhaps with subsequent back-off sets). Then lifter’s hitting a prescribed number of sets of the maximal number of weights per set. In such a situation it’s always better to listen to the coach’s personal guidance. No one except your trainer will be able to intuitively…

If My Last Day of CrossFit Were Tomorrow…

Nope…I wouldn’t take part in anything like CrossFit endurance training. If tomorrow were my last day on this earth, I wouldn’t want to end my life with one of the regular intense CrossFit workouts. A third situation includes few factors that can make intensity prescriptions obscure as well. Like when you stumble into specific exercises for which 1RMs don’t exist at all. Maybe you run into exercises for which 1RMs are not possible or not advisable. Also, there can be such a routines, for which 1RMs have not been tested yet.

The Heavy Weight of Olympics: Heavy and Power Lifting for the Pros

This spring, my good old friend sponsored by ManimalWear gave me a pair of these wrist wraps. I’ll admit that I never had the slightest idea why and more importantly how anyone would be using these. So until my GYM buddy told me the secret, I’ve…