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Convict Conditioning and Horizontal Rows

A few thoughts on Convict Conditioning (CC) and horizontal rows:

For those of you who have Paul Wade’s excellent book, there may be a few thoughts here that can help you if you are struggling with the horizontal pulls or rows, plus some other things to think about.

If you don’t have this [...]

Why I Train Alone

“How do you stay motivated?”

“How do you deal with training alone? I just can’t do that.”

“I need people pushing me to train, otherwise, I couldn’t do it.”

“I don’t have that sort of motivation. If I don’t have someone to train with, I just won’t do it.”

I pretty much have heard it [...]

One Brick at a Time

Well, of course, that’s how you build a house or other brick structure.

So what does it have to do with you and I?

That is how you get stronger, faster and tougher.

One brick at a time. It takes time and effort. It takes patience. It takes persistence. And sometimes it means taking a [...]

Recovery and Muscle Soreness Part-II

 It works like this:

Your nervous system gives a command to your muscles to move the bar. You do. This repeats for each rep you do. Then when things get tough, your form becomes shaky as you push to failure. Now the command signal to the muscles is not being read fully. It is getting [...]

Recovery and muscle soreness Part-I

The whole purpose of recovery is for your body and mind to rebuild, to rest and come back stronger, with more focus and greater skill.

However, it is easy to train too much due to being too enthusiastic, a stimulation junkie, a new trainee or perhaps just poor planning. Other things may come up in [...]