Greg has pretty much bankrupted and ended the careers of on line strength coaches and e book producers with his latest Facebook post. It will take about 2minutes to read, an hour of telling yourself it's too simple, right before you cry about all the money you wasted on 5,3,1 westside etc and bin them all to follow his advice: Greg Nuckols On and this comes from someone who has held three all time world records in powerlifting and writes what are regarded as some of the best programs there have been
I’ve often joked that I’ll make millions with a diet book one day. It will consist of 3 pages Page 1 eat less Page 2 sweat more Page 3 repeat
It's the same with conditioning doctor stephen seiler dI'd years of research into how top endurance athletes train and theres no real difficult periodization they train very easy on a number of days, very very hard on a couple of days ramp up the time of training in the off season and reduce when racing . That's it no fancy difficult scientific periodization. Seems strength training is similarly easy and we just tend to complicate it,
In some respects, I think training programmes are harder for serious amateurs than professionals. Amateur athletes have other pressures to juggle (work, family, etc) and often don’t get dedicated recovery time. This can make their training programmes harder to structure effectively.
I think the root of the problem is that everyone is looking for an easy answer , when in reality , most things just boil down to being sensible and working hard.
Nope we just over think it and think it's harder to plan than it is We aren't helped by all these on line trainers putting out complicated programmes what Greg wrote is perfect for normal guys because it auto regulates if you are rested your rpe at a 9 is higher than when you tired and over worked It's intuitive which is how the best strength athletes all train
I don't think it is just that People are willing to work hard they just over think things because it can't be that easy But it actually is
Perhaps it’s easy if you’re solely focused on hypertrophy. As martial artists, however, we need to balance strength (not simply hypertrophy), power, strength-endurance and various aspects of cardio. Martial arts make demands on all our body’s energy systems. Add in recovery from work, plus other demands on time and energy, and I don’t think it’s plain sailing to plan the right training programme.
Greg is writing about specifically a strength program and what he writes is almost exactly what mike tuchscherer writes program wise for some of the greatest powerlifters in the ipf. It's not plain sailing and the more specific aspects you need to work the harder it can be but if you want to build strength it's not as hard as the coaches writing the books make it out, and if you want conditioning it's also not that hard as Dr seiler has pointed out. And most amateur fighters again over complicate it there is no need to work power endurance if your resting heart rate is above 60 or you can't deadlift twice bodyweight just bringing the former down and the later up will do wonders for you
Now if you really want a fully customisable program, well three fully customisable programs from a world class coach and strength athlete you can get a 21 week program for $5... Yes you read that right 5 whole dollars Greg Nuckols
