Article recommendations week #10 2018

The most valuable and interesting articles in week #10 2018

Strength Training Articles

Stack explained How to Use ‘Giant Sets’ for Massive Results Inside the Weight Room defining what giant sets are, the benefits of giant sets and example giant sets you could use in your training.

Breaking Muscle outlined

• why Physical Health Is Mental Health in the past (and in the present) the relation between mental strength and physical strength has been discussed as a unilateral relation, specifically, that the mind controls the body. As a matter of fact, it is actually a bilateral relation, which means a physical strength affects mental strength. We can see this in sport all the time, the one who knows he is physically strong and can last longer, jump higher, run faster whatever it might be, has a higher level of confidence due to his physical superiority.
• 5 Reasons Why You Aren’t Seeing Results In The Gym from consistency over in-effective program design to motivation and discipline, and ultimately wasting time.

Power Athlete HQ released PA Radio – Episode 249: Dr. Bryan Mann an interesting talk on velocity-based training, injury prevention, and injury prediction, and much more… Listen in

YLM Sports Science compared the adaptations of different resistance training methods in a very visual infographic in the article The Importance Of Muscular Strength: Resistance Training Methods.

Tony Gentilcore outlined what training volume is, how to increase training volume and individual considerations in the article Programming Considerations: Training Volume

T-Nation shared

• a Tip: The Perfect Number of Sets for Growth how to stimulate muscle growth and training program guidelines.
• a Tip: Want Size? Build Reps, Then Add Weight an example program how to build volume through more reps, before you add weights.
• The Best Dumbbell Exercise You’re Not Doing 12 experts sharing their best DB variation, an interesting selection. Some are better than others…
• a Tip: Rest Periods: Sit or Walk Around? presenting a study, that compared an active rest between sets (walking around) and a passive rest between sets (sitting around) with the outcome, that you need to choose active or passive rest depending on your goal. Is your goal conditioning, walk around, if your goal is strength gains, power gains, increased worked done, choose a passive approach.

Bodybuilding.com listed 5 Hard Truths You Need To Hear About The Bench Press why the Bench Press is not as important as most people treat it.

Simplifaster discussed

• Is Training at Altitude Worth It for Athletes? an outline basic physiological principles that can be affected by altitude training, the benefits of altitude training, as well as discussing how long and how high you need to train at altitude.
• Why Yoga Is Important For Soccer Players I don’t necessarily align with all the benefits listed, however, still a lot of good information, not only for soccer players.

Complementary Training followed up on the fundamentals of strength training planning discussing testing / re-testing the 1RM, adjusting 1RM and adjusting training intensities for the following cycle in the article Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 4 If you missed the previous parts of this article series, check out part 1, part 2 and part 3.

The Barbell Physio outlined the importance of Shoulder Extension Mobility Drills and provided a few example mobility exercises you can do.

The 42 shared in very simple outline to achieve your goals for everyday training people using planning and periodization principles for goal setting and a Fundamental Movement based approach for the strength training design to achieve your training goals in the article Micro, Meso, Macro! A guide to setting fitness goals and actually hitting them.

The Bar Bend explained

• How to Program Speed Work for Raw Powerlifters what speed work is, why you need it and how to incorporate it into your strength training program.
• all you need to know about Barbell Rows in the articles Barbell Row vs Dumbbell Row – Which Is Best for Strength, Hypertrophy, and Fitness?, Bent Over Row – Muscles Worked, Exercise Demo, and Benefits and Barbell Row Alternatives

Elite FTS discussed The Role of Individual Differences in Programming by looking at the different variables, such as Size, Strength levels, Training age, Fiber type ratio,
proximity to genetic potential and much more.

The Barbell Shrugged Podcast discussed Optimizing Performance with Renaissance Periodization Founder Mike Israetel, touching on Dr. Israetel’s favourite topic, balancing training and recovery to maximise adaptation with various applied examples. Check it out