Greetings Great One! I never cease to be amazed how quickly time flies. I guess that means we are having fun. I’ve also heard that if you want to get something done, give that project to the busiest person in town. Regardless, here we are at the final week or so of the month. There is a deloading opportunity combined…
It is time, Simba! Time to Kick Ass, take what’s yours, take no prisoners, and be a champion! Strong words indeed, and oh so true. We piled on the training volume last week. Now this week we test it. We’re going to be looking at a test workout, done twice in the week, with recovery filler in between. It’s spicy.…
Oh, man, am I ever excited to lead us into this first week of the first month of the Power Block! We are finally getting some nice weather and I for one was also ready to change things up after all that resistance training from the last block. A good primer for this week is to briefly define and discuss…
The finale of the Strength Block is upon us! Congratulations on making it to this point and great job on all your training. We are now on the road to a deload. There are a couple of relatively easy sessions to allow full recovery before we push into the Power Block. As a preview, the month of May will feature…
It’s been a long, and strong, STRENGTH TRAINING BLOCK! We’ve used resistance training to enhance strength, hypertrophy, and even muscular endurance. I commend you on working so hard. And it has been that. But we’ve built some really good properties which will allow us to move into the Power Block with ease. This week has some changeups as I’ve promised.…
And another week is upon us! And what a glorious one it shall be! Spring! Easter! Full Body Split! Maybe not necessarily in that order! The key now is to stay strong, to stay the course. Seasons are changing and we just need to squeak out a little bit more intense gym work to prepare us for the outdoor season.…
A new month! A new training split. Oh yea! We’ve been cruising along in the Strength (and hypertrophy) Block. This final month in the block is one of my favorite splits. It’s a full body (FB) routine which has 3 different resistance workouts each week, interspersed with general conditioning (GC) days that work on various aspects of fitness and athleticism.…
Greetings amazing Tribester! It’s time for a bonus week! We are going to emphasize true recovery this week. I want to encourage you to explore how easy you can go, for the most part. We’ve been hammering hard and I’ve been getting some reports from the community of sore muscles, bones, and tendons, as well as folks feeling tired and…
Congratulations! We have made it to the final, deloading week of the month. This second month of the 3 month Strength and Hypertrophy Block has been challenging. We’ve been hammering on a great training split and really using some heavy loading. Now, it’s important to put a finale on the routine by backing off the intensity and simply perfecting our…
Week 3 for you and me! It’s us and we! The mighty Training Tribe ventures into intensification week. It may be spring break week, but that means we just more time to train hard. And that’s what we do in week 3 of every month. The changeups may look subtle, but they will test you (as they should) at the…
It’s the second week of the second month in this Strength and Hypertrophy Training Block. By now I’m betting you have your motion mojo dialed in with regard to technique on every exercise. We’re driving the loads up a bit this week. Adding weight, band tension, or tempo changes can help you to continue the stimulus for awesome adaptations. We…
We are marching into another month in the Strength Block, and that just happens to be the month of March. It’s the second of three months in which we use resistance training to enhance our strength and muscular development. You could always listen to Sammy Hagar’s “Marching to Mars” if you need a theme song for this month’s workouts. We…
Howdy, howdy let’s not get too rowdy this week. It’s time for a deload. We’re still going to be using the established training split for the month, but with some exciting changeups. By putting a few small adjustments and modifications, you can make the workouts continue to provide a good stimulus to the body while at the same time allowing…
It’s week 3 of Month 1 in our Strength Training Block. We are going to up the intensity a bit. Just a bit, though. One of the secrets of progressive overload training is that those overloads are fairly subtle. No need to shock your bod, just coax it to the next level. That’s why we’ve been working on staying consistent…
Week 2 of Month 1 of the Strength Block is upon us! This week we are going to apply a bit more methodology in the training system. We’ve got a good workout structure set up and it includes some excellent compound and functional movements. Now we are going to make some distinctions between strength and hypertrophy. Strength is max force…
OK…here we go! This week launches our 3-month Strength Training Block. We’ll be improving force production capacity and muscular hypertrophy. There will also be upticks in connective tissue resiliency, bone density, and the whole swole and jacked presentation of yourself! The training split we’ll be using this month is a classic. It’s push-legs-pull and it goes like this: Workout A…
Hello amazing Tribe member! Here we are at the end of our Agility Block and entering a deloading week. You’ve done a great job with all the “high-variety” training that we’ve been doing to augment your MOVEMENTSMITH ability. It’s always fun to bid farewell to one block and to usher another one in. With the agility training we were mainly…
Week 3 of month 2 of the Agility Block…oh yea! It’s time for intensification and a little KPI testing. We’ve got three new workouts this week and the goal is to hit each one twice if at all possible. Each session addresses your athleticism and fitness a bit differently. You’ll probably have one that is your fave. Ping me in…
Wowski Dowski! It’s time for some new workouts of the week. WOW is how we roll and this week we again have three sessions to perform. However, instead of banging out two of each with a day of rest, this week we are targeting 1x Workout A and Workout B and trying to get 2 sessions of Workout C. Your…
Happy New Year! 2023 is going to be incredible! We’re diving into the second and final month of the Agility Block with some exciting new workouts. We’ll also be ramping up some programs for the Running Demons, sculpting our body composition, really optimizing training and lifestyle in our MasterClasses! When we think of our Annual Training Plan, and the comprehensive…
