I’ve been using the dust, but all the rain is turning it into an ineffective paste. You can just see it smeared on some of the lower leaves.
Unrelated to the garden;
“One type of personal education that can only be self-taught is when to change from one routine to another. A lifter should never wait until he goes to change the routines in a particular endeavor, but know his body well enough to know when this staleness is approaching and change before his lift stops escalating. Know yourself well, and then you will know when to change to other assistance exercises for the bench press, or in fact for any lift you are trying to strengthen.”
“This is also one of my favorites and has given great results through the years, and as you will notice, like all the others it always includes some type of exercise which we are endeavoring to enhance. I developed a theory years ago that is quite simple and has always proven true. That is, when doing an assistance exercise to increase a particular lift, always include the lift itself in the routine. The reason for this is to continue to coordinate the strength that is being built by the assistance exercises into the lift on which you are really concentrating.”
“Here I have given you five of the greatest routines that I have ever worked up. Some of them you have possibly done before, or at least variations of them. Others may be new to you. I would personally think that it would take about a year to go through all of them, and you may use each of them for the period of time that you think is necessary. As I have said before, everyone is an individual, and one of the main things you should know is when you are about to go stale and should switch from one routine to another.”
Paul Anderson, from “Bench Press Training.”
“Charles Poliquin once said, “Christian, if you want to learn something new about training, read a book that’s 100 years old.” That ignited my passion for what the pioneers of strength training did to get bigger and stronger. If you apply their ideas to your training and put in the work, you’ll progress at a rate you couldn’t have imagined before.”
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“History, having a habit of repeating itself, was no exception in my case. After training with my newly found routine for about a month, I again started feeling the same old staleness as before. This second slowing down period, although not as severe as the first, proved to me that I needed more assistance exercises.”
Paul Anderson, “Training the Press”
“Speed strength work is done for a 3-week cycle. The weight with bands, chains, or both is changed each week, normally increasing each week for the 3 weeks. On the fourth week, the load is decreased or changed, and again another 3-week wave is started. Why do we start again after 3 weeks? We found that after 3 weeks, one cannot become faster or stronger. That is exactly why a 3-week wave is used. Dr. Mel Siff informed me that Vasily Alexeev used a similar wave system for his remarkable training.”
Louie Simmons, “PERIODIZATION: PENDULUM WAVE”
Why not take advantage of the fact that the first week of a new plan will likely be less effective? “Deload” on that week instead of on the last week of each block.
"Now it becomes an “introduction week.” Use a lower level of demands to get used to the new program and perfect each session. You’ll recover from the previous block while also easing into the next block.
Now you aren’t wasting anything! You’ll also finish every block strong, leaving you in a much more positive mindset than finishing a block on an “easy week.”"
Tip: Don’t Use Deload Weeks. Use Intro Weeks.
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by Christian Thibaudeau | 05/08/16
