Januari 2001
AST: The effects of psyching up before a big set on the weights:
"So what does this all mean in terms of your training? Don't kid yourself when it comes to exercise selection. Nothing can simulate the results you obtain from using heavy barbell squats, deadlifts and bench presses. You may think you are working hard on machines but it ain't the same and you won't get the results you're after."
Weighty Matters: How to use knee wraps
AST: Max-OT On-line Training Course by Paul Delia:
"With over 35,000 people enrolled from all over the world, Max-OT is the most talked about training program in existence. Find out for yourself why Max-OT is the most effective muscle building training program ever invented."
Max-OT på svenska
AllProTraining: Train With The Pros: Januari
The world's top strength and conditioning coaches from the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA, and MLB have come together to offer training and nutritional programs just for you. Get the Knowledge, Get the Edge. Get the Ultimate in Training.
- Plyometrics - The Bridge Between Strength and Speed
- Developing Leg Strength and Foot Speed with Minimal Equipment
- Preventing Hamstring Injury
- Static Stretching Guidelines to Increase Suppleness and Minimize Injury
- Dr. Di Pasquale discusses Maximizing Energy Systems
- Skeletal Muscle Catabolism
Outside Online: Balancing Acts: Januari
"Don't be put off by the funny equipment—functional training builds real-world skills in the gym."
Musclemonthly: Westside Powerlifting: Torso Training for the Squat and Deadlift: 15 januari
One question I am asked all the time is how can I increase my squat and deadlift. Most all problems associated with these two lifts boil down to one reason. The lifter has a weak torso. The midsection is the key when it comes to the powerlifts.
Cyberpump: High Intensity Training 101:
"Brian Minogue brings you no-nonsense articles on the basics of training...and getting RESULTS. If you are looking for scientific mumbo jumbo, then this is not the page for you! Brian will bring to your browsers what we at Cyberpump! call "REAL" information to build your body safely and effectively."
Clarence Bass: HIT Advocate Stops Training to Failure – and Gains!:
"Had someone previously tried to convince me that reducing my effort in the gym would lead to better gains I would have ignored him completely. I would have looked upon them as something of a wimp, and saw their efforts as a feeble excuse to train in an easy fashion so as to forgo the discomfort of true training. After all, how could less lead to more?"
Mesomorphosis: Partial Recovery and Advanced Training Techniques: The "Twist" Double-Split: 20 september 1999
"Common wisdom has it that once a muscle was exercised intensely using resistance training, it should not be exercised again until it has completely recovered. This is considered especially true when a muscle was exercised to failure for several sets, or when eccentric movements were used for added intensity.
What I am about to suggest in this article goes against this commonly held dogma."
Clarence Bass: Soreness, What Does It Mean?:
"My Aussie friend Roy Rose judges the effectiveness of his workouts based on soreness. I believe he's onto something. What's more, I don't believe you should train again until the soreness is gone."
The GripPage: The Home for Grip on the Web
musclemag.com: Mental Abilities Make The Best Winners In Sports: 2 september 1999
"A survey of coaches finds that psychological factors are more important than physical characteristics in determining what makes for a real winning athlete."
Nutricise: Know Your Limits:
"Can you tell the difference between a great workout and one that pushes your body past its limits? Between being highly motivated and being obsessed? If not, you're at risk for overtraining, which can seriously damage both your physical and mental well-being."
Muscle Research Online Magazine: Issue #5: 23 januari
"In this installment, we have an interview with one of the greatest athletes in the sport of natural bodybuilding, Nancy Andrews. We also have a sneak peek of part 2 of Dr. Joe Klemczewski series on protein that will be featured in this quarterly issue of Natural Bodybuilding Magazine. If that's not enough, we've got some great training tips from powerlifting coaching legend, Jeff Sellers and much more!"
Iron Curtain Labs: Athlete's Mind:
"Q: Why do they call a dumbbell a dumbbell?
A: Well, believe it or not It has nothing to do with the people who lift them! According to weightlifting historian Perry Buchanan, the original dumbbells were shaped like bells. Since they looked like bells, but didn't ring (and/or speak) they were called "DUMB" bells."
- 10 Keys to Lifting Success
- 15 Surprising Facts about World Class Athletes
- 7 Commandments of Powerlifting
- Are you the Average Joe?
- "CHOKING" Tips of control
- Courage to live the Good Life
- Female Competition
- Greatness (?)
- Growth through Criticism
- Hard work
- In Pursuit of Success Part #1
- In Pursuit of Success Part #3
- In Pursuit of Success Part #5
- Instant Inspiration
- Psychological Aspects of Powerlifting
- Psychology of Powerlifting
- Program the Greatest Computer
- Pt. #10 Self Confidence
- Pt. #8 Courage
- Pt. #7 Presistence
- Rejecting Rejection
- Rising from the Ashes
- Tell Me Why?
- The Dreams of Today
- The Power of Purpose
Cyberpump!: Review: IRON GRIP Magazine: 14 januari
"I have already announced this magazine, entitled IRON GRIP, previously in this column. I recently received my first issue and I wasn't disappointed. David Horne has gotten off to a great start with this magazine. In the first issue, there were 22 pages with a great mix of grip history, training, and pictures for inspiration."
SportsPoint:
"Siden for alle der har interesse indenfor idræt. Her finder du undervisere, artikler, uddannelsesoversigt, kursusoversigt, inspiration, webshop og meget mere! Spørg eksperterne, læs forskningsreferater og find vej til idrætsfaglig litteratur."
Motion-online:
"Sidste nyt fra forskningen om træning, kosttilskud og doping samt træningsprogrammer, øvelser, udstyr og links. Af forskere, der selv træner!"
Greenland Bodybuilding:
"Informationer om Mike Mentzers HIT træning og andre interesser og billeder fra Grønland og koncerter."
SportsPoint:
"Siden for alle der har interesse indenfor idræt. Her finder du undervisere, artikler, uddannelsesoversigt, kursusoversigt, inspiration, webshop og meget mere! Spørg eksperterne, læs forskningsreferater og find vej til idrætsfaglig litteratur."
Barry's Power Page:
"Details of my 19 year training history, using many styles: Arnold, various High Intensity Training (HIT) methods - Mentzer, Jones, Darden - and (by far the most successful) various Periodization methods. The most succesful bodybuilding methods - for a "hardgainer"' like myself - from my 19 years of experimentation with many training styles."
Fitnesslink: Cheetah Speed: Free Weights or Machines?: 11 januari
"Stronger muscles move faster than weaker muscles. But should you hoist machine weights or free weights to improve your running and cycling speed?"
Athletic Insight: Aggression Among Athletes: An Asian versus American Comparison:
" Using questionnaire data from Asia and the U.S., the author suggests that Asian athletes tend to be more perfectionistic, more work oriented, receive more family support, are more family oriented and tend to be less aggressive and less angry. Conversely, the American athlete appears to be more aggressive, less work-oriented, often complains more about practice, have looser family ties, and are less guilty about defeating opponents."
Athletic Insight: The Relationship Between Athletics, Hispanics, and Aggression:
"This paper reviews the literature on the subject of aggression and the role of athletics among the Hispanic population. The concept of machismo has been associated with Hispanic males and implies that there is a greater likelihood of aggression among Hispanics than any other ethnic group of athletes. However, aggression is best predicted by SES, not ethnicity."
PubMed: Strength training. Single versus multiple sets: Augusti 1998
"Perhaps the most controversial element of any strength training programme is the number of sets required to increase muscular strength and hypertrophy. There is a prevalent belief that at least 3 sets of each exercise are required to elicit optimal increases in strength and hypertrophy.
However, there is little scientific evidence, and no theoretical physiological basis, to suggest that a greater volume of exercise elicits greater increases in strength or hypertrophy. This information may represent an important practical application of time-efficient, low-volume exercise."
PubMed: Single versus multiple sets in long-term recreational weightlifters: Januari 2000
"Both groups significantly improved muscular fitness and body composition as a result of the 13 wk of training. The results show that one-set programs are still effective even after a year of training and that increasing training volume over 13 wk does not lead to significantly greater improvements in fitness for adult recreational weight lifters."
The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research: Comparison of 1 Day and 3 Days Per Week of Equal-Volume Resistance Training in Experienced Subjects:
"The findings suggest that a higher frequency of resistance training, even when volume is held constant, produces superior gains in 1RM. However, training only 1 day per week was an effective means of increasing strength, even in experienced recreational weight trainers.
From a dose-response perspective, with the total volume of exercise held constant, spreading the training frequency to 3 doses per week produced superior results."
Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine
Cyberpump: Chin-Ups and Their Variants: 8 januari
"Of all of the upper body movements, these are among the hardest to do. They are hard because they require the use of a large amount of muscle to move a major amount of weight - your bodyweight plus whatever weight you attach to yourself - over a large range of motion."
scrum.com: Fitness for rugby union:
"The modern game of rugby is one of the most demanding sports around in terms of the physical fitness levels needed to play at the highest levels.
Every player needs to be able to work at high intensities with small rest breaks for 80 minutes. Top level players will run between 4 000 and 6 000 m in a game, much of it at high intensities. Every player needs to be powerful in the tackle, be agile enough to avoid contact where necessary, and explosive enough to break a defensive line."
BodyBuildingLive.com - Live coverage bodybuilding on the net
Muscle Research Online Magazine - It's New! It's Free!: Issue #4 - January 8, 2001:
"Muscle Research is an online magazine dedicated to giving you the information you need to build your best body ever. The bi-monthly magazine contains relevant, useful information in the areas of nutrition, exercise, and health."
Workouts That Work:
"Q: Will it really work?
A: I guarantee that it will!! Now remember, I am not promising a "Quick fix in only ten minutes a day" type of thing, this is hard work by necessity! Your body will not adapt unless you subject it to workloads above and beyond what it is used to. But stick with it, and you WILL be rewarded."
Active Trainer Online:
"The ActiveTrainer.Com resource is here to help users reach their fitness goals and provide information, inspiration and hand-holding to make and change your lives."
Stretching.com:
"Publications/products on stretching, strength training, exercise and fitness. Books, videos, poster, exercise prescription pads, bodytools, CamelBak, Maxit athleticwear, and the Back Revolution (an inversion traction device)."
Home Gym Warehouse: Bodybuilding Book Reviews
Stretching and Flexibility - Everything you never wanted to know
AFPA - American Fitness Professionals & Associates:
Muscle Fiber Hypertrophy vs. Hyperplasia: Has the debate been settled?:
"If you look at a good marathon runner's physique and compared him/her to a bodybuilder it becomes obvious that training specificity has a profound effect. We know that this muscle mass increase is due primarily to fiber hypertrophy; that is the growth of individual fibers, but are their situations where muscles also respond by increasing fiber number?"
Bony Joe's Weight Pit:
"Bony Joe's Weight Pit was designed to share what I've learned through my years in the iron game with everyone else. You get a lot of advice from so-called gurus who could hardly lift more than my mother (she benches 70 pounds for 3 sets of 10, by the way)."
Rainer's Weight Training and Fitness:
"I built this FREE info. website to help motivate myself and others to have fun while training hard! Not everyone is going to win Mr. Olympia, but we can all look good at the pool!"
Mike's Power Page:
"Mike's Power Page is the free resource for practical weight training information. Boasting a sharp new look, easier navigational structure, and fresh information, Mike's Power Page presents sound strength training information for the natural athlete."
Matt Furey:
"Matt Furey's newest book, COMBAT CONDITIONING for Fitness, Combat Sports, Wrestling, martial arts, jujitsu and health."
SUMOPAGES - weight training, strength training, armwrestling:
"SumoPages is a website devoted to strength training."
Boiler Home Gym:
"This site is dedicated to hard training, abbreviated training, power training, and strongman training. It is not for pumpers, toners, bunnies, or people who like fancy chrome-covered gym equipment. If you toil away in your own boiler room, and constantly strive to throw on some more weight, read on. You will enjoy yourself..."
Combat Wrestling:
"Matt Furey Teaches You How To Destroy Your Competition With Superior Conditioning and Superior Technique."
powerandstrength.com:
"The East Coast source for Power Lifting and Strongman Competitions."
Fightraining:
Have a look at this guys living room... Have you seen anything like this before?
"How to make thick handle bars. How to make a rolling thick handle. Coming soon... more links, pictures of grappling, how to make a grappling dummy, how to make and improvise weight equipment, video, and much more."
Russian Martial Art:
"Your Official Internet Gateway to Health, Martial Art, and Physical Culture."
Primordial Power:
"The Primordial Power mission is to provide facts and information related to serious drug-free strength training. Whether we are using barrels, sandbags, grip-training devices or raw iron, the one constant is the belief that only through hard work and heavy weights can a man become brutally strong.
I'll try and provide honest advice from real strength trainers, strongmen and the garage gym gorrillas. We are the men who look to the legends of the past in our quest to become stronger."
The Weightlifting Page:
"I have been competing and coaching since 1967, and I have been receiving a number of requests for information about weightlifting, diet and throwing events. I have placed them in this file for convenience. Thank you for visiting."
Hardgainer: Bare, Basic & Best: The Hardgainer's Home Gym: 7 januari
"But for any home-gym devotee, only three things really matter. And they are: 1. Safety. 2. Safety. 3. Safety.
Safety and simplicity. If you keep those two words high on your list of priorities, and repeat them like a mantra, then success will surely find you."
Manolakis's Hardcore Drug Free Bodybuilding Site:
"Note that I'm writing about the way I see bodybuilding and the way I train. I'm not responsible about anything that can happen to you by following my advice. At this point I must state that I have tested under a period of 8 years everything I write about without any injury (and with very good results :-)."
Hardgainer: Free issue of Hardgainer:
"Never seen a sample copy of HARDGAINER? Curious to check out our "bastion of no-nonsense drug-free training" magazine? Here's your chance - download a free sample issue now."
SunTimes: Gym favorite's back: 8 januari
"Remember the thrill of whipping that big rubber ball across the gym floor and the satisfying smack of knocking an opponent out of a game of dodgeball?
Remember the exhilaration of successfully evading a well-hurled projectile? A group of Schaumburg Park District employees hope those memories will get adults back into the gym to revisit the game they played as youths."
AllProTraining:
Static Stretching Guidelines to Increase Suppleness and Minimize Injury:
Coach Coleman introduces safe, effective and individual approach for including stretching in your practice and some basic guidelines for achieving maximum results without risking an injury.
Proper Lifting Techniques When Doing Upper Body DB Lifts:
Coach Coleman introduces safe and effective exercises to develop a strong and well-balance chest and shoulders and minimize the risk of injuries in the area.
Coach Nemish: Abdominal Training Part I:
Coach Nemish discusses the benefits of unstable abs training in his first article of a three article series on abs.
Coach Nemish: Abdominal Training Part II:
Coach Nemish compares two popular abdominal exercises in his second article of a three article series on abs.
Coach Nemish: Abdominal Training Part III:
This third article on abdominal training takes a slightly different look at two training devices that have been advertised on the market.
Seal Exercises for Core Strength and Flexibility:
Coach Coleman presents some extremely effective drills designed and used by the Navy Seals for developing of the major physical qualities: strength, flexibility and agility.
Mikko Laukkanen: Bodybuilding:
"I'm using a method called Mega Duty which was developed by a finnish guy K.P. Ourama. It's a HIT-method like Mentzer's Heavy Duty and it really works at least for naturals. The supplementation is also an important factor in weight training. To get more information on supplementation, check out newsgroup sci.med.nutrition."
Ivanko Barbell: Heavy Metal:
"We've dedicated this area of our website to you, the lifter. We hope you will find the information provided here beneficial to your training.
Topics include: workout tips for the beginning, intermediate and advanced lifter, monthly training routines from respected strength athletes around the world, a chat room, message board and upcoming events."
The HIT FAQ v3.0:
"The acronym "HIT" stands for High Intensity Training.
HIT in extremely basic form means organizing your workouts so that they are:
- Hard - as hard as possible in good form.
- Brief - 1-3 sets of a few basic exercises performed in an hour or less.
- Infrequent - No more than three times per week, often times two, or even one.
- Safe - HIT is intended to be an extremely productive protocol, but also one that stresses safety. One of the fundamental goals of strength training is to act as injury preventative."
The H.I.T. & Hard Training Links:
"I feel that the H.I.T./Hard Training Community deserves a good Links page! As a H.I.T.'ter or Hard Trainer you take your training more seriously then most people do. You train with heart and passion. You were not satisfied with the misinformation of the muscle comics and the bogus supplements they sell, you were smart enough to know it was B.S.. So who deserves a links page more then you do? No one! That's who!"
Pure Power:
"This site is devoted to the pursuit of drug-free strength. If you want to learn more about time-tested methods for getting bigger and stronger, you've come to the right place.
Non est vivere sed valere vita. Life is not merely to live, but to be strong."
Hardgainer Bodybuilding & Weightlifting FAQ:
"A Hardgainer is a genetically-typical person (if there is such a thing). To be more specific he/she is born with no special genetic 'gifts' which enable them to pack on muscle mass quickly. Such people cannot gain lots of strength using VOLUME training, but a hardgainer can make impressive gains using less frequent workouts with considerably less volume."
Bodybuilding Brotherhood Style - Home of TRULY Hardcore Natural Bodybuilding
BodyResults: Core Training for Sport:
"Your core consists of the rectus abdominus, internal and external obliques, and erector spinaes, all the muscles in your mid-section that allow you to transfer movement and power from the upper body to lower body and vice versa.
The following integrated, whole-body movements allow you to develop strength that will carry over more readily to your sport – say good-bye to hundreds of crunches!"
