ABOUT THIS EPISODE
A good group program is written for the bell curve, meaning the majority of the people in the room. It isn't written for you specifically. In this episode of Strong Principles, Rob, Wendy, Pete, and Larry explain how to get the most out of group training without feeling defeated when your workout doesn't look like the person's next to you.
We cover:
- Why a program everyone can do, or one that crushes everyone, isn't effective
- Progressions, regressions, and scaling (split squat to Bulgarian split squat)
- Training by movement pattern, and why some lifts depend on your anatomy (long femurs and the back squat)
- How a six-day phase is built, and why changing a workout's stimulus can backfire across the week
- Why five-minute Saturday tests exist, and why they hurt the most
- Cherry picking: endurance athletes skipping strength, meatheads skipping cardio
- Zone 2 explained, including the 3-zone vs. 5-zone mix-up, and why middle-intensity work is the hardest thing to get people to follow
- Trusting the process, and why personal training is money well spent at the start
Strength is the base. Build on it.
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