Some of the people that post on this site.
You mean big and strong, right?
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If that’s all you can interpret from that pic, sure.
No guessing necessary. The T in T Nation literally stands for Testosterone. It’s Testosterone Nation.
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You should go check out T3hPwnisher’s log.
Edit: I would advise not commenting, at the rate you’re going, though.
I thought he just posted a gif about @T3hPwnisher warming up his shoulders getting ready to OHP an axle with 275 on it?
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Lmao that’s how I’m going to picture all of his warmups now.
You guys warm up?
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Yes, then wait exactly 83 seconds before lifting, for optimization reasons.
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I just assumed you did what was in the gif for 15 seconds then went straight to working weight 
Also assume the thing you’re holding in the gif was the axle
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Have you ever heard the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good?” That’s the lesson people are trying to teach you, I’ve also heard it phrased as “perfect is the enemy of done” in the software world. Distilled down, it’s more important to finish the work than it is to perfect it, you can always iterate.
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I don’t, nor do I stretch.
I just go hard.
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I was living dangerously and did an eccentric banded pull apart with NO warm up. Just rolled out of bed and ripped one rep off. I think I tore my bicep, but that pink, thin band has more resistance than you’d expect.
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You guys get out of bed?
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You guys have beds?
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Yeah once again this is individual. If three 30 minutes aerobic sessions per week prevents you from progressing… Many athletes wouldn’t progress. But they have very good bases.
Yes because the fatigue generated will prevent you from being explosive.
Was bored yesterday and wrote an article on post activation potentiation. Found some studies proving the benefits of weights for aerobic and other cardio stuff, and the other way around. To a limit of course (since mTOR and AMPK inhibit each other… fatigue from one training will interfer with the other…)
Also, what is the aerobic training they are refering to? A 20 minutes aerobic power session will interfer way more than a 40 mins jog. But I’m nitpicking, I agree with most of what is shown, but I just don’t want any more people to be afraid of cardio.
Have you SEEN @T3hPwnisher?
Boy, are you going to feel silly!
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Here is my small experience with running as a cardio and lifting.
Upper body days with slow or tempo runs are fine
Tempo run after an upper body day combines well
However running even 24 hours after a lower body day results in insane doms for me
HIIT and lifting do not go too well imo. Both are too heavy on the CNS. If you want to do HIIT with lifting you should be lifting maximum 2-3 times per week. And not sure if that works if your main goal is lifting heavy.
Keep in mind I do not have the best work capacity and I am already almost 35.
Imo AM and PM workouts are too much. It is an athletes type of working and the athletes will have a skill training in one of the workouts.
I am currently involved with soccer players. And I am hearing that a lot of professional soccer coaches are failing because of a heavy AM work - endurance or strength, combined with a skill PM work. The athletes are just too tired and lack motivation to do the PM workouts. And these are contracted players. Let me put it this way there are comments like “it is the 3rd coach who they bring who wants us to train twice per day, while doing heavy work in the morning”.
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We also need to distinguish between optimal and practicable. I know, for me, I either do cardio after lifting or I don’t do it at all, unless you count a walk or bike ride after work with the family as cardio. The last thing I want to do in the evening is go for a run and I don’t have any cardio equipment at home.
What’s the difference between optimal and not optimal anyway? Say you don’t wait the 6 hours and you end up with 90% of the muscle/strength gains you would have got if you split them up (I just made that number up as an example). For 99.99% of people that 10% wouldn’t be noticed either way. Now, maybe for someone like an oly lifter going to the Olympics or an elite level powerlifter working towards a WR it might matter. If I understand the interference principle correctly, it doesn’t negate any gains from the other training modality, it just reduces the effect a bit.
Now, if you want to split up the training and it doesn’t interfere with the rest of your life, go for it. If you can’t, don’t worry about it.
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That sounds like you’re getting stuck with coaches who want to establish their bad assedness by pummeling the players with conditioning.
I switched schools and wrestling teams from one regionals/states winning team to a total practice matches team. Coach #1 was no conditioning, all drills. Coach #2 was a rank beginner and would run and condition us into the dirt every day. Then at matches we were getting tech falls and pinned like a wedding dress.
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