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7 Reasons to Have Multiple Training Partners
Ensure your training success with a motivated workout team Strength Sensei CP Publication Date: 2001 I’m often asked if it’s better to train alone or with a training partner – the answer is neither! To [...]
Strength Sensei Bookshelf: The Squat Bible
Strength Sensei Bookshelf The Squat Bible If you’re looking for a hardcore training manual that will enable you to slap another pair of 45-pound bumper plates to your squat max in just five weeks, The [...]
Overcome Strength Plateaus with Heavy Supports
A powerful method to jump start your training By Strength Sensei CP I often get questions about what to do about training plateaus, especially with the squat and the bench press. I found one [...]
Strength Sensei Bookshelf: Achieving Victory Over A Toxic World
Strength Sensei Bookshelf Achieving Victory Over A Toxic World For nearly four decades, Mark Schauss has studied how toxins can affect our body composition and overall health. His research is presented for the non-scientist in [...]
The Top 5 Habits of Iron Game Champions
Qualities that make strong athletes stronger By Strength Sensei CP The tip-off could have been the huge cash withdrawal from the socialite’s bank account before the murder of her husband; or maybe it was [...]
Training for Traps
Success leaves clues, and if your goal is big traps, consider studying the training of elite powerlifters and weightlifters. Powerlifters get their trap development from years of deadlifting while Olympic lifters get them [...]
A Question of Balance
The importance of structural balance in program design By Strength Sensei CP Publication Date: 1997 Concentrating on only compound lifts, such as the “powerlifting big three” (bench press, squat, deadlift), is a good [...]
Strength Sensei Bookshelf: The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook
Strength Sensei Bookshelf The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook In 1998 Lyle McDonald published The Ketogenic Diet, a 323-page masterpiece on the science of low-carb dieting. Another treatise that belongs on the bookshelf of any serious personal trainer [...]
Aromatherapy for Bodybuilders: Yes or No?
Aromatherapy for Bodybuilders? Yes or No? A new look at an old method of improving quality of life By Strength Sensei CP Publication Date: 1997 I first became aware of the possible benefits of [...]
Getting It Together
The wholistic approach to lifestyle, training, & nutrition The first thing I tell most people who ask me for specific advice is that for supplements to work, you have to have your other ducks in [...]
The Truth About Leg Extensions
A closer look at this controversial exercise By Strength Sensei CP Publication Date: 1997 The leg extension machine is one of the most widely-used pieces of lower body equipment, available in nearly every [...]
Post-Exercise Nutrition Primer
Maximizing the anabolic and performance effects of exercise There is no doubt that the timing and type of protein intake after exercise is crucial for increasing skeletal muscle protein synthesis and an overall net balance.1 [...]