The truth is, I would never pen an article about anything essential or that you “need to know.” Most things in articles about things you need to know are things you do not need to know and no exercise is essential. It’s funny, I just saw an article pop up from Redbook with a similar […]
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Specificity Principle (Specificity of Exercise Training or SAID)
Specificity has to do with the specific responses that occur as a result of training. In order for long-term physiological changes or adaptations to occur, a repeated, or chronic, stimuli must be applied to the body, along with progressive overload. This means for new levels of fitness to be achieved, an exercise (the stimulus) must be repeated […]
Should You Switch Exercises to Keep Your Muscles from Adapting?
This is one of those patently absurd statements that shouldn’t even have come close to being a part of strength training dogma. To keep your muscles from adapting, is to keep them from getting stronger (if we are talking about positive adaptations). When we achieve a new level of fitness, it is because of an […]
Progressive Overload is a Principle, Not a Tool
In my article Progressive Overload and Its Application to Strength Training, I stated that the term progressive overload gets thrown around so much in fitness that it loses all meaning. I said that it is too vague and misconstrued. I complained that the goal of progressive overload is often substituted for the actual performance goal, as […]