As I get older and more experienced, I am becoming increasingly convinced that most strength training approaches are, in a word, baloney.
Why?
A suite of reasons:
* They place far too much emphasis on stuff that doesn’t move the needle, and too little on the things we know do.
* They’re far too complex, involving intricate calculations, careful monitoring of bar speed, “rate of perceived exertion” and a raft of other things that, while no doubt useful in the right context, are far too much for the average man who has a life outside the gym to keep up with.
* They have little room for slack, so if you’re feeling gash and don’t make your lifts on a few occasions (and sometimes only one occasion) you have to start the entire programme again.
For the avoidance of doubt: I am not saying the people who write these programmes are stupid.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
Many of them are highly intelligent with legitimate qualifications to match (think master’s degrees and even PhDs in exercise science and adjacent fields).
Moreover, these programmes do work – for the right people and in the right context.
Which, in most cases, is not the man (and, occasionally, woman) who simply wants to get stronger for their own and their family’s sake.
They would be much better suited to following the programme laid out in August’s issue of “The Phil Tyreman Letter”, in my biased opinion.
But they’ll have to subscribe before the 23:59 on the 31st of July deadline,
As will you, if you want it.
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman