Why do you exercise? Of course people tell me that they do it to look good, to stay healthy, to feel better, to fit into their clothes again, to show off to their old schoolmates at a reunion, to look good on their wedding day… true.

But when it comes down to it, each time you do a piece of exercise, it has to have a purpose.

Any exercise is better than watching TV all day… but you and I are both busy and don’t have time for sub-optimal training.

Each weight that you lift, each set of sprints that you do, each time you change workouts MUST HAVE A PURPOSE. I strongly discourage “random or buffet training” because if you train like that, you have NO CLUE if you are on your way to reaching your goals.

• Are olympic lifts like the snatch and the clean good? Yes!
• How about lifts like the squat, deadlift and presses? Yes!
• Chinups? Yes!
• Kettlebells… well sometimes:)
• Sprints? Yes!

Alot of things are “good” but its like food… if you wanted to have a nice dessert you might choose ice cream, cakes, red bean soup, bananna pancakes, pies, or any number of yummy foods.

Each nice on its own… but when mixed together and put into a blender, you get a messy slop that is yucky.

• So each time you choose an exercise – choose it for the muscles it trains.
• Each time you choose a rep range – choose it for its training effect and total time under tension.
• Each time you choose a rest interval – choose it depending if you want to develop power (rest longer) or capacity (rest shorter).
• Each time you plan a series of workouts, they are designed to build on each other for maximum progress, not to be a “surprise” that varies so often that you have no chance to track and assess.
• Each time you perform a rep – do it precisely and correctly, or else you have no idea if you are progressing!

I have had clients who claim to be able to do huge numbers of kipping chinups but their actual max chinup was very unimpressive. That makes them actaully weak… even though their skill at kipping seems to imply that they are good at chinups. They train properly for a few weeks and their max chinup goes through the roof…

Guess what? So does their kipping chinup:) It does not work the other way around.

A Rep is NOT a Rep unless it's done properly and consistently

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