“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…]
Work Capacity
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking Why am I not a big fan of lock-step, western-style progressive overload training as a base training concept? Because in my experience, this method — more times than not — will lead to over training (or, at the very least, over reaching) and stagnation…. [More…]
In an Evolutionary Sense, Why Hypertrophy?
No passion so effectively robs the mind of all of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke The question of “why should there be a hypertrophy response at all” has puzzled me for some time. On the surface, inflated muscle mass does seem to be a grossly inefficient answer (in metabolic terms)… [More…]
The Benefit of Less-Extreme Views
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united ~ Alexander von Humboldt George Church (Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) argues, in this Big Think piece, that the age-old divide between science and religion is solvable. “We can bring them together,” he says, “but it requires less… [More…]
The Hypertrophy Response — Stimulus or Fuel Dependent?
“We do not rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochus A spot-on observation of human nature, I think. Even so, within those of us who think more highly of ourselves, that it should be otherwise. So much so a true observation, in fact, that I… [More…]
Time Under Load
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Question; would you train this athlete… …the same as this knucklehead? Well, the fact is, that in many ways science tells us that they should train the same. The rub comes from the fact that empirically speaking (and this is where the art… [More…]