Mark Brown September 19, 2021 I don’t consider “leg day” to be the joke or meme that the internet likes to consider it. Training legs when done correctly are the hardest days of the week, depending on how one does back training. What makes them so hard is the fact that the vast majority of …
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Week 2
Mark Brown September 17, 2021 Monday Chain Bench Press – 135 x warm up, 225 x 6, 225 w/chain x 6, 235 w/chain x 5, 245 w/chain x 3, 255 w/chain x 2 and x1.Narrow Grip Incline Bench Press – 135 x 10, 155 x 10, 165 x 10, 185 x 8, 205 x 3Seated …
Public Gym Training vs. Home Gym Training
Mark Brown September 13, 2021 Home gyms have always been popular for people who like to train but don’t like the atmosphere of public gym, be it a private gym or a commercial gym. Prior to 2020, I didn’t have access to a private home gym but I soon learned that there quite a bit …
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Week 1
Mark Brown September 6-10, 2021 All weights are in pounds. MondayChain Bench Press – 135 x warm up, 225 x 8, 225 w/chain x 6, 235 w/chain x 5, 245 w/chain x 3.Seated Overhead Press – 95 x 8, 115 x 8, 135 x 6, 145 x 3Narrow Grip Incline Bench Press – 135 x …
Golf
Mark Brown September 3, 2021 Bet you’re wondering what this one could be possibly about. Is it what lifts carry over over to the golf course? The connections between golf training and strength training? The second of those two questions is much more likely to be answered than the first. Partly because I don’t honestly …
Goal Setting
Mark Brown September 2, 2021 Goal setting has always been hard for me to wrap my head around because I have rarely met something prior to strength training worth having a hard standard to hit. Even after I started lifting, setting specific goals was difficult for me. Lifting for general health is so aimless. Effective …
The Value of Training Partners
Mark Brown August 30, 2021 Strength training can be a lonely experience. It requires a lot of internal motivation and a lifestyle defining amount of discipline to get anywhere to close where a lifter wants to go. Coaches in team sports use other humans as supports against the mental and physical wear and tear that …
2021 Summer Program
Goals The goals listed here are going to be differentiated by long term, short term, specific, general, powerlifting and bodybuilding because goals are inherently time and situationally dependent. I have been lifting progressively more seriously for about 7-8 years now, so I thought it was time to really nail down some serious lifting goals this …
Thus Far…
Strength training has taught me lessons that I didn’t learn from anything else in life. It is who I am at my core and what I do. It shapes my decisions every day in every way. I have no other bond as strong as mine is to training. If asked in 2019 what I was …
Life Through Lifting 