“I was always honest about my weak points. This helped me grow. I think it’s a key to success in everything: be honest, know where you’re weak; admit it.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger If you follow my training log over at the TTP Facebook group (and you should!) you’ll see the cornerstone of my training is done… [More…]
A Typical 30 Minute, HIIRT Workout
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin So on the heels of my All HIIT / HIIRT, All the Time? post, this: a post about nailing a HIIT / HIIRT workout. Because the training life is (or ought to be!) like that. Waving intensities, weaving modalities; for… [More…]
All HIIT / HIIRT, All the Time?
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” -Mahatma Gandhi Let’s cut to the chase on this: all of *anything* — all of one way — all the time, is a disaster in the… [More…]
Managing the Variables
“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ever wonder what the relationship is, in a practical sense, between systemic fatigue, workout-induced muscular failure, workout volume, and that oftentimes misinterpreted word, “intensity”? And, more to the point, what is the interplay between these factors and workout frequency? And… [More…]
Losing Your Religion
“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.” – Henri Frederic Amiel It’s often said that diet is second only to religion insofar as each topic’s ability to generate heated debate among “believers” who will defend to the grave their sacred beliefs. The same phenomena is… [More…]
HIT, HIIT…or HIIRT?
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe The ARXFit Alpha providing this particular session’s HIIRT train caboose. Huh… Curious as to what the differences are between HIT,… [More…]
Full-Spectrum HIIT
“The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” – Niccolo Machiavelli Don’t be fooled into thinking that High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is solely about efficient metabolic conditioning; to do so would be to limit… [More…]
The Efficient Exercise Method
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, continued, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Resistance-exercise-based High Intensity Interval Training — it’s the Efficient Exercise bedrock training philosophy. It also constitutes the underpinning of my own personal training regimen. Properly programmed… [More…]
Of Sprinting, and Leptin Signaling Mimetics
My good friend Chris Highcock, of Conditioning Research, (and he by way of Andrew Badenoch, of Evolvify) clued me into the recent Journal of Applied Physiology article, Is sprint exercise a leptin signaling mimetic in human skeletal muscle? I won’t delve into the interesting details of this paper, as Chris has already done a wonderful job of… [More…]
Touchstones
“I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.” – Aryeh Frimer I like to revisit certain performance markers every now and again throughout the ebb and flow of the training season; markers that, over the years, I have been able to correlate, at least within myself, to a well-rounded athleticism. These… [More…]