The Scientific Principles of Strength Training are universal but each lifter’s unique characteristics, their Training DNA, changes how they are expressed in the athlete’s program. Max Aita discusses this concept for Team Juggernaut’s weightlifters.
Every nutritionist wants to claim that they have finally found the “5 easy steps” to fat loss and making people fit, and have they? I’ll …
Max Aita dives deep into the principles that guide his program design.
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 …
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 …
