Optimize Your Training with Stimulus, Recovery, and Adaptation

[@bbszabi]

The best book I've read on strength training (for intermediates and advanced) is the one you co-authored with Dr. Mike Israetel (Scientific Principles of Strength Training). It was a great eye opener, especially the fatigue management and SRA parts. All of a sudden a bunch of the popular programs out there (Juggernaut, 531, Texas Method, HLM etc, even Starting Strength) began to make sense and that knowledge allowed me to design my own training program and modify things on the fly and auto regulate things as I was progressing. That book should be a must read for every lifter that wants to venture beyond the simple linear progression for novices. I love these last videos, because they reinforce (even complete) what I read in the book. Awesome content, thanks a lot!

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

@@bbszabi thanks for the kind words

[@bigfoot14eee99]

Thanks to your MRV video, where I was way low due to age, build etc, I found that for squat and bench, heavy one day then light 2 days later with 4 days off before going back to heavy works for me (for the time being) I only do deadlifts once per week (again for the time being)

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

Glad to hear it

[@vik1837]

Can you please cover nutrition. That plays a big role in recover and fatigue!

[@jaymills1720]

Why isn’t neural or central fatigue relative ? If I’m 185 and deadlift 405 and a guy is on gear at 285 deadlifting 800 why would his be more fatiguing?

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

Because 800 is absolutely and relatively more

[@jaymills1720]

@@JuggernautTrainingSystems yea I guess stress is stress and the brain/spine emits cortisol at high levels regardless of muscle mass

[@Baytowne0888]

Because your brain doesn't grow along with your muscles.

[@jaymills1720]

@ yea that’s what I figured.

[@mr350znismo7]

Small guys really need to stop equating everything to weight class. Absolute matters.

[@Opincargymnastics25]

been training twice a year for 2 years gotten a lot stronger i am a gymnastics coach and use my shoulders and back a lot

[@jaymills1720]

Curious, variations won’t tax the skeletal-muscular system the same way but the central fatigue it will emit should still be accounted for when programming as one still has to recover from the stress of that? So can we really just use variations to increase frequency of a lift without cost of fatigue?

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

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[@khalidhashimali40]

Thanks for the amazing information. I can't believe that you offer this high quality information for free.

[@jaymills1720]

This was helpful dad, thanks!

[@jaymills1720]

I notice the female lifter doesn’t have nearly the same ROM as you because she stops at her chest instead of letting the bar press into it and getting ROM for strength or hypertrophy . Is that by design? I’ve seen female lifters let the bar depress into their chests and get better ROM

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

She also doesn't have the same ROM as me because she is a foot shorter and 200 pounds lighter. Powerlifting ROM is from the chest to lockout.

[@jaymills1720]

@@JuggernautTrainingSystems gotcha! I guess I was thinking of hypertrophy training. Thanks!

[@jacobj3491]

Some powerlifters only train using their competition technique which is typically optimized to reduce ROM. Others do at least some training with a larger ROM in order to try to make more gains that will carryover to the shorter ROM. Based on what I've read, the latter is most likely better for your bench overall. However, it does lead to more hypertrophy and fatigue, which may not be optimal for your specific situation.

[@22448824]

Overweight low T guy lecturing people on weight training. LOL

[@JuggernautTrainingSystems]

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[@dalehall-bowden1083]

The ignorance is strong with this one