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The Science and Practice of Getting Started: Day One
An all-or-nothing approach can paralyze those who lack the proper equipment or aren’t yet ready to start with something as challenging as a full barbell training program. Here we talk about the principles of getting started that apply to everyone.
https://barbell-logic.com/best-strength-exercises-for-getting-started-day-one/
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Increase Your Gravity: Strength, Health, and Space
Bed rest and sedentariness are like microgravity and should be avoided as much as possible. Instead, create your own gravity, and slowly increase it for as long as you possibly can.
https://barbell-logic.com/increase-your-gravity-strength-health-and-space/
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Strength Programming: Qualitative vs. Qualitative Changes
If you train at the same intensity and volume over and over again, using the same exercises, then you will adapt to that level of stress but not more. Your body has grown used to the stress like a long-term and not-well-liked houseguest.
https://barbell-logic.com/strength-programming-quantitative-vs-qualitative/
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(Article) Strength Training to Brain Training
When we learn new things, we also have the opportunity to build important structures in our brains that lead to long-term benefits. Like building muscle from lifting weights, these benefits are independent of whether you get good at the thing you are learning.
https://barbell-logic.com/brain-training-new-skills/
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(Article) Test Your Might: Taking an Unscheduled PR
There are some things to consider when you are thinking about an unplanned PR in the middle of a training cycle. We will look at three different types of PR attempts: The Mock Meet, the Single-Lift PR, and an AMRAP Strength Test.
https://barbell-logic.com/test-your-might/
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Does Lifting Weights Stunt Growth?
There is no evidence that sports, compressive forces on bones, or that growth plate fractures represent a major issue for normal growth in children.
https://barbell-logic.com/does-lifting-weights-stunt-growth/
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Become a Deadlift Machine (Deadlift Form Fixes)
To squeeze the bar off the floor, you first take out all the slack. Set your back and pull your arms and wrists straight as if they were ropes that you are trying to pull taut.
https://barbell-logic.com/deadlift-form-fixes/
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Self-Efficacy and Strength Training
Raising issues of health behaviors for "lesser dragons," diseases that can be controlled or eliminated by our individual behaviors. This article talks about these lesser dragons and connects the behaviors necessary to fight them to things we learn through strength training.
https://barbell-logic.com/self-efficacy-and-health-behaviors/
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Knee Pain When Squatting
Knee pain while squatting is a common complaint. Without more information, the existence of knee pain will not signal an “all-stop” to the strength coach. We take the black hole approach, creating observations and experiments that try to stay training.
https://barbell-logic.com/knee-pain-and-squatting/
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Programming for Your Bench Press
The four-day split organizes your programming into two upper-body days and two lower-body days every week. With a four-day split, you can give equal consideration to your press and bench press, but this allows you to manipulate important variables, utilize supplemental lifts....
https://barbell-logic.com/bench-press-program-for-strength/
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Homeostasis: A Framework for Strength Gains
Stress-recovery-adaptation is a predictable process of survivability. One that we have learned to hijack in order to direct physical change. While the overarching process is fairly predictable, we are still figuring out exactly why certain types of stress lead to specific . . .
https://barbell-logic.com/homeostasis-a-framework-for-strength-gains/
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https://barbell-logic.com/squats-and-your-back-common-myths/
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Stress and Homeostasis: How Changes to Your Environment Cause a Physical respons
Minor disruptions to homeostasis occur every day without your changing locale or being injured. This cycle of disrupting homeostasis and restoring it is how our bodies learn, grow, and adapt to our environments. It is by this constant, dynamic balancing act that humans have....
https://barbell-logic.com/stress-and-homeostasis/
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Starting Sports: General vs Specific Training
How strength training fits in with sports training.
https://barbell-logic.com/strength-training-for-sports-performance/
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Strength History: Eugen “The Magnificent” Sandow
https://barbell-logic.com/history-of-physical-exercise-eugen-sandow/
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Deliberate Practice and Lifting
Like muscles, you can train your brain to evaluate your own lifts. You can actually learn to see differently. Artists train themselves to see the world as shapes, light, and shadow because seeing the elements of a scene allows them to draw it more clearly. Similarly, you can adap
https://barbell-logic.com/train-your-brain-deliberate-practice/
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Barbell Logic Article | Good Form Makes You Stronger
Form is as much a part of your program as the sets and reps you do every day...
https://barbell-logic.com/importance-of-form/
