Sports Training

You can make as much progress in your first 3 months of training as you will in the rest of your first year.

It would be a pity to waste this golden opportunity, wouldn’t it?

We’ve put together a set of articles for beginners and intermediate weight training enthusiast to help you reach your goals in record time.

High Intensity Training (HIT) may be the thinking athletes approach to weight training. It promises the fastest gains in the shortest times all with the least time spent in the gym.

We take a look at the reality of this approach and discuss the pro’s and con’s to the method.

If you want to understand it and give it a try, we have a series of articles to explain the principles behind HIT, along with sample routines and peoples experiences of using them both short term and long term.

Periodization is based around a cyclic approach to training whereby you train different functions of the body during different training phases. Each phase therefore allows you to fully focus on the goals of that stage maximising progress.

The promise of periodization is that you never have sticking points. Your training becomes a none stop series of ever improving cycles, keeping you motivated and helping you make maximum progress.

Periodization can be applied to all sports, including bodybuilding. Our article discusses different approaches, and how to apply them to different sports.

Chances are, if you're not sure what type of training you do, it's most likely to be a form of Sub Maximal Training (SMT). This is the style used by the majority of gym goers, and is therefore picked up in the gym from one person to the next.

SMT is typically based round high volume work outs that have delivered results for generations of bodybuilders.

However, if you want to make progress with this method, you need to understand the principles behind it, otherwise, like many gym goers, you will find that you spend ever longer in the gym and make ever slower, if any, progress.

Joe weider, the grandfather of weight training, will be forever linked to the principles of weight training. He was the first person to look at training and catalogue the principles behind what he saw.

These principles have remained a work in progress, and have been refined over the years as science gave us the chance to look more closely at what happens during exercise.

This article explains these principles in a simple and direct way so that you can incorporate them into your workouts and maximise your progress.

The basic idea of weight training is to progressively overload a muscle causing an increase in strength, muscle size, or endurance. However this only brings results if the exercise works the target muscle.

The correct exercise performance is essential no mater what your goal.

If you are new to weight training this guide is essential reading to ensure safe progress. However if you are already experienced, you will find a few suggestions to make your workouts even more rewarding!