Training Volume Archives - Athlete.io - Formerly DangerouslyHardcore.com

Your New Lifestyle: Relax Your Way to High Performance

March 4, 2013 By Jim Laird 28 Comments

Want to smash weights every time you're in the gym? Learn the meaning of rest and recovery first. By Jim Laird What do the words “day off” mean to you? Do you know what a day off even is? What are you doing on your so-called days off? I want you to think about this right now, because you need to. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ammonia Caps, Autoimmune Disease, Barbell, Being Calm, Big Lifts, Bioforce HRV, Bodybuilder, Bread, Caffeine, Cancer, Cognition, Digestion, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Dragging Sleds, Ephedra, External Stimulus, Facebook, Fight-or-Flight, Gluten Intolerance, Gym, Heart Disease, High Performance, High Threshold, Internal Organs, Jim Laird, Joel Jamieson, Loud Music, Medicine Balls, Meditate, Meditation, Off Day, Overstimulation, paleo, Paul Chek, Pizza, Recovery, Slapping, Sleep, Stress, Stress Response, Stressful, Training Volume, Treadmill, Twitter, Ulcerative Colitis, Western Culture, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Workday

THE SEXY, STRONG WOMAN: LOSE WEIGHT, GAIN MUSCLE By Julia Ladewski

January 14, 2013 By Staff 2 Comments

If you want to get stronger, you have to get bigger, right? That’s what most people believe, and it’s essentially become a set-in-stone concession among all athletes, male and female, that in order to add significant amounts of strength, we also have to pack on significant amounts of bulk and fat. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arched-Back Good Mornings, Athletes, Athletic Body, Builder, Building Main Movement, Bulky, Central Nervous System, Competitive Powerlifter, Conjugate Method, Conjugate Training, Disappearing Size, Disappearing Strength, Get Stronger, Heavy Intensity Workouts, Heavy Lolads, Heavy Weights, High-Volume Leg Exercises, Lean Strength, Low Volume Workouts, Lower Reps, Max Effort Movement, ME Training, Near Maximal Weights, Optimal Diet, Powerlifting-Style Training, quads, Sexy Strong Woman, Sprinting, Sumo Deadlift, Supplemental Movement, Track Athlete, Training Volume