There are days when I wonder how much further ahead I’d be right now if only I had taken a more structured approach to training in my early years.
When I say “structured”, I don’t mean sucking away all spontaneity by becoming a slave to a spreadsheet. Or, worse, allowing the way I train, eat, and live to be dictated to me by some infernal fitness wearable.
But winging it from one week to the next, one month to the next, is no way to tackle training either.
Why?
* You are far more likely to land in the pernicious cycle of training hard and getting some results only to lose them the moment something disrupts your training,
* A lot of the time you simply make no progress whatsoever due to absence of incrementally more challenging stimuli (this can happen even if you feel as though you’re smashing it every single session), and,
* Injuries are more frequent and more serious due to unpredictable shifts in one or a combination of volume, density, intensity, and frequency.
All issues I bumped up against (sometimes simultaneously) for the better part of a decade.
Whatever.
No use crying over spilt milk when I have plenty of years left of productive training, even if I will never achieve certain milestones due to certain poor decisions I made in my youth.
I am mentioning this because one arena you absolutely cannot afford to stray from a sane, sensible structure is the pursuit of new one-rep maxes (because it dials the aforementioned three problems up to eleven).
More:
Provided you are healthy, this is one aspect of training you must engage in at some point to ensure continued forward progress pretty much everywhere else (strength, muscle, power – even leanness and endurance).
As it happens, I recently created one of those sane, sensible structures that will, all being well, secure you a nice little 2.5kg PB in one or more of your squat, bench press, deadlift, and overhead press. (You may set an even bigger PB if things go particularly well, but please understand that this is the exception not the norm.)
The system is called “The Six Week Peak” and it is available for the Special Launch Price of £80 until tomorrow (8th) at 23:59.
Learn all about it by way of an informative and entertaining letter that you will find here:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/peak/
Thank you,
Phli Tyreman