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max effort Archive
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Verkoshansky, Aristotle, and the Cube Method
A properly constructed training system is one with a synergy between training means such that the result is greater than the sum of the individual training means.By Caleb Bernacchio
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A Different View of Intensity and Volume
More is better? Not always, especially in terms of your training.By Kyle Newell
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The One-Drop Method
Thinking fondly of my favorite brain hemorrhaging Smolov sets and the growth one can literally feel, I chose to include one single drop set in this spirit.By Frank Butty
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Making the Switch from Power Athlete to Bodybuilder: Rethinking the Pre-Exhaust
The types of adaptations that power athletes have elicited through their training emanate not from one particular muscle group but rather from the entire central nervous system.By Chris Albert
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Do Powerlifters Need Cardio?
Having a base level of aerobic fitness can be highly beneficial for a powerlifter.By David Adamson
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EFS Classic: The Intermediate Deadlift Cycle
The deadlift may be the purest test of strength in the iron game. Heavy weight. On the floor. Must pick it up. In the beginning, you can follow just about any routine and make decent progress. Heavy sets of five have worked for more than a few lifters. However, once you get to the elite level, you must carefully plan your training cycle and figure out exactly which accessory lifts help drive your deadlift up.By Mike Robertson
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EFS Classic: Making the Max Effort Easy
There are a ton of questions on how to work up to a 1RM on max effort day. While many lifters don’t use percentages, it certainly makes it easier on coaches and novices on how to pick attempts. Since many people who are new to doing these movements are not familiar with their maxes, use the following to help guide you.By Jim Wendler
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The Effects of Specialized Exercise Variables for the Purpose of Maximizing Absolute Strength on the Bench Press
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between muscular overcoming, yielding, and holding during training for absolute strength on the bench press.By Ken Kashubara
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Strength 101: Part II – The Methods of Strength Development
A lifter uses multiple lifting techniques because the body has many different modes of adaptation.By Brandon Patterson
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Ramblings on Maximal Effort Training
The maximal effort method is very important in your training if you're an athlete.By Josh Bryant
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Brian Schwab Max Effort
Everything is right in the world again.By Brian Schwab
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Strength Training for Wrestling: Max Effort Carryovers
Knowing the interrelationship that exists between all of your exercises and knowing the transferability of the exercises selected to the goals of your program should be the primary focus when selecting derivative exercises in a strength and conditioning program.By Dickie White
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Schwab Explains his Training Methods
Why I stopped performing dynamic effort work in my training.By Brian Schwab
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Assistance Exercises for the Raw Squatter
So it’s been three meets now and I’m still doing this raw thing.By Scott Yard
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Back to Simplicity
Can structure exist without rules? If you have a penchant for a more Apollonian protocol, you would answer with a passionate “no.” In the iron culture, structure takes shape in the form of principles and laws that are vehemently applied to training, sometimes dogmatically, despite the fact that such orthodoxy might actually limit progress or at least possibilities.By Chip Conrad
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Rapid Rate of Force Development
Rate of force development (ROFD) is probably the most important and under-recognized area of applied science pertaining to strength training and athletics. ROFD essentially refers to the speed at which force can be produced. Aside from those sports requiring very precise movements (such as gymnastics and ballet), I can’t think of a single example in athletics or lifting that wouldn’t benefit from a faster ROFD. A faster ROFD results in quicker, more explosive movements and gets the bar moving sooner.By Kevin Neeld
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Incorporating the “Big Three” into Sports Training: Part 2
For as long as I have been involved in sports and training, I have seen more cookie cutter training programs than you can shake a stick at (and that’s a lot). Most work for a period of time and some not at all, but for the most part, they all work because the body responds so well to change. New programs have different exercises, frequencies, and tempos but only a few have lasted through time.By Chris Clark
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The Beginners Guide to Strength Training: Modified Max Effort Training
Maximal effort training, which is usually defined as lifting a weight that is 90 percent or above your one rep maximum in the given lift, has been weighed upon many times. It has come out on top as a superior method of increasing strength in a core barbell lift. However, it can easily be misused.By Mike Pelosi
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The Ulterior Motive
It seems like yesterday when I first set up the Q&A section on EliteFTS.com. I still remember answering the first question back in the winter of 1998. It was about the dynamic bench press, and I knew this would turn out to be a great thing. What I didn’t know at the time was how great it would become.By Dave Tate
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A Beginners Guide to EFS
I was looking through our archived articles and I can’t believe how many there are. There is a lot of great information in these articles. In fact, it’s overwhelming for me. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for those new to the site. So what I’m going to do is make a list articles and other assorted products that will make things very, very easy for someone navigating this site and trying to learn. This list of articles, books and DVD’s will help you get “with the program.”By Jim Wendler
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Deload to Reload
I’ve wanted to write this article for awhile and there have been several questions on the Q/A that touched on this subject. For those not familiar with the term “deload” by basic definition of it is this: to take a break from extreme training. The deload is generally a one-week affair (sometimes three when peaking for a meet) and is done for the following reasons:By Jim Wendler
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Training for the Holidays
The Holiday season may be great for reuniting families and running up your credit card debt, but it can wreak havoc on your training. Ever since I went to college, I’ve been traveling extensively during Christmas and Thanksgiving. I have been to a lot of high school, college and commercial gyms during this season and have had a lot of experience trying to get good, productive workouts. This has been about as challenging as trying to crap in a one room apartment without anyone knowing. For all of my single life I lived in one room apartments and it’s always a nightmare when you have some girl over and all you want to do is blow it up, Dresden-style, and all you can do is try to time your flush with your farts. For those of you that have lived it, you know exactly what I’m saying.By Jim Wendler
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Push/Pull
This article was inspired by Alwyn Cosgrove and something that he mentioned to me in passing. He was talking to me about the first time that he began weight training. Like most people, he incorporated the bench press as one of his major movements for his upper body. A couple of weeks later, he asked another lifter what else he did for his shoulders/chest.By Jim Wendler
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The Individualization of Team Training
In many instances team weight training consists of athletes of varying levels of strength preparedness- all performing the same training parameters. If the training parameters are not Auto Regulated or assigned to specific classifications of athletes the respective development of preparedness for each sportsman becomes inhibited. This translates into a collective of disproportionate preparedness at the team level.By James Smith
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Surviving Max Effort Day
I wasn’t feeling that great and should have known better. I didn’t sleep that well the night before and had been stressed out of my mind all day. I had a million things to do and barely had time to eat since breakfast. By the time my workout rolled around shortly after 6pm, I was shot. I thought about just putting my workout off until tomorrow. That would have been the smart thing to do. Unfortunately my training partners arrived and cranked up the music and started to talk some trash. I tried to fight it for a few minutes, “You don’t have it in you today,” I told myself. “Be smart.” Suddenly the sound of my own internal voice was drowned out by Marilyn Manson screaming through the speakers, “You can’t save yourself…”By Jason Ferruggia
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Max Effort Training for Dynamic Results
Looking over the EliteFTS Q/A, answering questions on the phone and performing seminars, it is easy to see what part of training has received the most focus; dynamic effort training. This has been the cause of a lot of talk (“When do I use the circa-max phase?”, “What percentages should I use?” etc.), a lot of frustration and a lot or excitement amongst coaches and lifters. Unfortunately, most people are missing the boat.By Jim Wendler
