The Workout Police vs Training ADD PD would be an animated show that I’d watch
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In my opinion-Participating in a team sport and having a coach in charge of driving your training goes a long way in conditioning a person to what it means to really push.
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Oh 100%, and it’s unfortunate how many children are growing up to be adults and NOT have this experience. And then it’s amazing how many people aren’t even willing to risk it.
There must be something REALLY cool that happens when you’re 80, because everyone seems to be saving themselves up for it…
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I hope I get accused of this someday. That would be a really nice compliment lol
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All you end up discovering is that the public’s idea of what is and is not a steroid is confusing.
But also wait for the “good genetics” accusation.
In fact, it’s pretty rare to ever hear someone go “Man, I bet you work hard and stick with you diet!”
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Third if you include my step son, matey
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Congratulations man
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Are we now at a point where every training idea that we know has worked for years has to be dragged before the coach of the hour for approval?
I genuinely can’t tell if posters are just looking to start a fight or bizarrely believe the human body has changed in the last year and everything we knew worked before has suddenly stopped.
There is value in questioning things, and revisiting things but one thing that I vehemently believe that T-nation as a publishing platform has failed at is providing suitable meta-information regarding any given programs with respect to whom it is geared for, when it is appropriate to run, and how it fits into a grander scheme.
While the prose of some articles acknowledge these aspects, the onus has been on the author to supply such a caveat emptor while really it makes as much sense to offset that responsibility on the editorial staff (although that is but one way to solve the problem, not the only way)
And again, with any site novelty is always a factor. It accomplishes the continued engagement with those that are already repeat visitors whilst also signalling to new visitors that “yes, this site has a pulse”.
If the goal was strictly to supply best-in-class education and information on training with regards to strength and bodybuilding the chronology of posts should take a backseat to the careful curation of what has already been posted and also making that information easy to navigate in relation to your goals and training experience.
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And also, it’s more about “yeah, maybe it works but is it OPTIMAL?”. You obviously want results as fast as possible, while also maybe not having to surrender your entire life to training, stress-management, optimising recovery, proper form and technique, etcera. but all of that gets glossed over to the benefit of something simple such as number of reps. It’s an easier thing to swallow.
And you see this everywhere. People don’t want to know that they should invest money early in their life into a decent ETF such as the S&P 500. They want to make bank, now, on some hot tip.
If you want to get meta check these out. Every aspect of training examined and organized into one unified system. Every good idea already accounted for and easily plugged in or switched out.
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I didn’t mean “meta” as in overarching templates and philosophies, I meant metadata to contextualise the content for the reader.
While the second piece touches on this,
For example, if both athletes performed a set of 10 reps in the barbell squat with 80%, the novice would walk away like it was no big deal while the advanced athlete wouldn’t be walking anywhere because he’d be on the floor!
what I meant was having something akin to labels signifying that the information within a certain piece may be more suitable for a such-and-such individual. This is so beginners don’t spend their time (I did this mistake) doing rest-pause training before having achieved adequate technical proficiency, hypertrophy and strength.
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What constitutes adequate strength and hypertrophy for rest-pause training?
In that system beginners would perfect technique on the big lifts with optimal weights and several low rep, non failure sets.
Then they could use the rest/pause method on assistance lifts, where technique is less important, for building specific muscles.
And they could just keep doing that stuff as they became intermediate and advanced.
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I think I’m throwing in the towel on the program ADD challenge (nobody snitch on me).
I’ve come to realize I’ve been less than motivated during my sessions and taking exceptionally long rest breaks between squat sets because I really don’t want to do the next one.
I know a certain deep water advocate has said that if you start to hate training you’re working hard enough to make progress. I’m torn between that perspective and reminding myself that this is a hobby so I should just do what’s enjoyable.
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I wonder who that could be…
Remind me again what program you were running?
I would literally never train, haha.
Embrace the suck. The only way to make long term progress, imo.
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