The flame free confession thread.

here's another: if you train fasted or after heavy cardio (including MA training), reduce intensity and increase volume. the energy expenditure will make your strength ceiling plummet, so you have to effectively train as if your 1rms were lower.

also, i'll ammend my prior statement to 'the usefulness of high intensity and low volume training is directly proportional to the comparative loading potential of the lift'. high intensity training is designed to cause systemic stress by having multiple joints spread out the load among them. the fewer joints you involve, the more stress they receive, and they can only take so much before they go kaput

 

I jog. This is simply because I cannot convince myself that a human being should be unable to jog, say, 3 miles over some moderate hills without encountering serious difficulty. I've heard the arguments and I think this 'cardio will kill your gains' mantra stinks higher than a fart aboard a 747.

Similarly, I perform situps. I know. This one I find harder to defend except under the broad heading 'but I've always done them and I find the idea of being without them strange'

 

Yeah, I mean it's not like I'm arguing for everybody to do ultramarathons or anything. Like anything else, I think there's a 'dose' that won't do anything, a dose that will be beneficial and a dose that will actively hurt you. But running a handful of miles a few times a week is probably reasonable.

 

Agreed 100% this is one of the best post so far

 

Possibly I should have typed 'fartlek aboard a 747'?

Too late now... curses.

 

cool

one last confession- I... this is hard to admit but I'm not sure I like the idea of taking exercise advice from Mark Rippetoe. Dress it up however you like, but you can't avoid one basic fact: the man is fat.

 

Good luck closing that can of worms, I hurt many a but saying that a while back

 

This thread's supposed to be 'flame free' isn't it?
Still, there's such a thing as tempting fate...

 

Nice one