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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. — Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) If you ve you ve been following discussions about eating for maintenance or recomp versus bulking on social media recently, you ve probably noticed many of the debates are about the terminology [ ]
In 2014 I wrote about the force–velocity curve and why controlled repetition speed matters. Since then I’ve seen the same misunderstanding come up repeatedly: people conflate the muscle force–velocity relationship (a capacity limit) with Newton’s second law (a requirement to accelerate a mass). They are different ideas that answer different questions—and when you combine them [ ]
In this video I explain why I perform my repetitions very slowly and discuss common misconceptions about training with slower repetition speed, longer time under load, and more moderate loads.
In this video I explain that people are not injured because they perform exercises to momentary muscle failure; they are injured because they use poor form, usually with excessive weight, and sometimes choose poor exercises. If you are injured during exercise it is because a tissue is exposed to a level of force that exceeds [ ]
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I ve recently noticed more trainers marketing programs specifically to older men and women, but there is no difference in the general principles or guidelines for exercise for older compared with younger people. The things most frequently emphasized in marketing to older populations—safety and time-efficiency—are important for younger people, too. Most just don t appreciate it until [ ]
In this video I discuss a few of the most important things I ve learned about exercise since I started doing high intensity training in late 1993 after learning about it from Mike Mentzer s Heavy Duty column in Iron Man magazine. Topics include the relative effects of genetics versus training methods on long-term muscular strength and [ ]
In two recent videos I discussed common misconceptions about rep speed, load, repetition count/time under load, strength, and hypertrophy, including the myths that you must move fast and lift heavy weights during exercise to recruit your fast twitch motor units, improve your speed, power, and explosiveness, in other activities, maximize muscular strength and size, and [ ]
When explaining exercise principles and criticizing beliefs and practices which violate them, it is common to be accused of dogmatism by one holding erroneous beliefs. This is often an attempt by the accuser to dismiss novel assertions or criticisms of his beliefs without providing sound counter-arguments. Ironically, this is frequently the result of his own [ ]
In the 1990s Iron Man magazine published a series of articles from Nautilus and MedX inventor Arthur Jones. In one of those articles he wrote the following about the number of sets one should perform, citing several then-recent studies, When, in 1970, I introduced the first Nautilus exercise machines, together with the statement that only [ ]