Let’s get more specific! Mark Brown September 28, 2022 The last 8 months have really given me an opportunity learn from both experience and second hand sources and apply that information to my current program. Some of the lessons have become hard rules that I apply to planning sessions and the lifting that gets done …
Tag Archives: Programming
Value in the Gym, Part 1
Approaching Lifting Through the Lens of Value Mark Brown September 15, 2022 The concept of value is essential to understanding why and how stuff gets done. This goes foes the gym, work, home, everywhere. For some areas of life, such as business, the discussion of value is inherently in everyone’s face overtly. Others it gets …
Research and Development, Part 4
Accessory Lifts Mark Brown August 23, 2022 Accessory lifts stay more stable in a program because they support the supplemental lifts and are just good gpp for any lifter. The important part to remember about them is that they support through developing the muscles that do the lifting. To do this, most accessory lifts are …
Research and Development, Part 3
Mark Brown August 16, 2022 Supplemental lifts are what is the bulk of any training session that takes place are made up of. I do spend a lot quite a bit of time on the main lift because of the raw volume that is involved, but it is far from the majority of the time …
Research and Development, Part 2
Mark Brown August 11, 2022 I haven’t bought a lot of equipment over the last 12 months so the rate of needing to learn how to use new equipment has evaporated quite a bit. Programming in new equipment is another thing all together. I have written before about how weaving 3 different squat bars into …
Organization Will Set You Free
Mark Brown August 4, 2022 Every day I walk into work and see an absolute disaster that requires a massive clean up before I can start what I need to get done. It is a clean up that lasts a few hours and requires me to accomplish my task while continuously cleaning because the shift …
The Hatfield Squat
A Squat for All Mark Brown July 14, 2022 The squat is one of the core lifts anyone strength training does. It can be done any number of weighted implements in tons of different movement patterns. It is also one of the human body’s natural movements so it is something worth improving over the years. …
New Lifts in the Plan
Mark Brown July 7, 2022 The adjustment to my summer lifting plan has been in place for a weeks now. It’s gone fairly well. The addition of different lifts into the second back/legs and chest/shoulder day have made for a different feel and challenge to the session. Some of the lifts are here to stay …
A Slight Change
Starting Week 22, 2022 Mark Brown June 9, 2022 I am making a slight change to my lifting program for an undefined amount of time. I am making progress in my triples and doubles on the main power lifts but am not making a lot at the top. I have lifted with Pete and his …
What’s the Point?
Bench Press Edition Mark Brown May 12, 2022 Every decision in the gym needs to fulfill some specific purpose. Most of those decisions will involve sets or reps of some lift. The reason why is because the body has a limit to the energy it can put towards a lifting session. Don’t go hard enough …
Life Through Lifting 