The Olympics are here and the discussion of Performance Enhancing Drugs roars louder than ever. What do Performance Enhancing Drugs really do and how do they affect an athlete’s training? In this episode of The JuggLife Podcast, Chad and Max talk with Dr. Mike Israetel about the implications of training while using PEDs:
WE HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND PERIODIZATION. We talk about periodization, and various aspects of periodization, as if they’re mutually exclusive. Most …
The term “fueling” is a popular buzz word within the sports dietetics and athletic performance setting. Ensuring athletes are properly fueled for competition and training …
Over the course of a training plan, as an athlete gets stronger/faster/more explosive (generally more capable of higher outputs), recovery becomes of paramount importance. Over …
In order for training to be effective, an overload must be presented. Training must be chronically harder, longer, and more demanding in some way as …
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed what the concept of consolidation of stressors is and how it is applied to programming in the …
It is important to understand what elite athletes, like those on TeamJTS, currently do in their training, isn't what they've always done. As you evolve …
By Chad Wesley Smith Over the course of a training plan, as an athlete gets stronger/faster/more explosive (generally more capable of higher outputs), recovery becomes of …
We train so that we can get better. Bigger, faster, stronger, leaner, and maybe even all of those at different times. Training hard makes us …