Ahh, the humble acronym. A simple means by which to take big groups of commonly used words and smash them down to a couple of letters. One problem: if you’re a little new to the group using those acronyms, they ain’t helping you much. With that in mind, I thought I would start a thread to help demystify the alphabet soup you typically find here on T-Nation. I know when I first started out here I had NO idea what most of these things meant either and slowly (at times painfully) got up to speed. My list is by no means exhaustive (and my apologies to any contributors I overlooked), but hopefully it gets you started off on the right foot.
Again, this is a list based on the most commonly-used acronyms more than anything else. Maybe we can keep this list updated over time and in an easy to access form (so please be nice to the mods. LOL) Hopefully this can be a bit of a community effort, so if there is something I missed (I know how impossible that seems), post it.
Contributors:
CS - Charles Staley
Chris Shugart (occasionally as CS, but usually just Chris or Shugs)
CT - Christian Thibaudeau (also might see Thibs)
CW - Chad Waterbury (also might see C-Dub)
DJ - Dan John
EC - Eric Cressey
JB - Dr. John Berardi
MR - Mike Robertson
TC - TC Luoma
Training Programs:
Chad Waterbury
ABBH - Anti-Bodybuilding Hypertrophy (Parts 1 and 2)
Part 1 - http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459341
Part 2 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459211
SFM - Strength Focused Mesocycle
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=485341
QD - Quattro Dynamo
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459216
TTT - Triple Total Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=476508
TBT - Total Body Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=508031
SC - Singles Club
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459290
HH - Hybrid Hypertrophy
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;?id=580380
SOB - SOB Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=561180
BBB - Big Boy Basics
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459533
For some reason, Chad’s programs seem to lend themselves very well to acronyms. Gold star for you CW!
Christian Thibaudeau
MS - Mutation Series
Part 1 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459214
Part 2 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459207
Part 3 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=478828
OVT - Optimized Volume Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459276
EEB - East European Bodybuilding
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=604433
EBT - Eccentric Base Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=574021
Coach John Davies
FTF - Fat To Fire
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459312
FTF2 - Fat To Fire 2
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459788
B2B - Back To Basics
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459665
Dan John
OLAD - One Lift A Day
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=483048
Eric Cressey/Mike Robertson
NNM - Neanderthal No More (Parts 1 through 5)
Part 1 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459379
Part 2 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459206
Part 3 http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=04-004-training
Part 4 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=472224
Part 5 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;?id=535872
Mike Mahler
CVT - Customized Volume Training
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=543803
HOC - High Octane Cardio
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=460021
Joe DeFranco
WSSB - West Side for Skinny Bastards
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459321
Diets:
ME - Massive Eating by Dr. John Berardi (how to bulk up without being sloppy)
ME Reloaded Part 1 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459429
ME Reloaded Part 2 http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459431
TD - T-Dawg Diet (a personal fave of mine that I am doing right now)
On a side note, you might wanna avoid calling Chris Shugart’s super-popular Velocity Diet “VD” for 2 reasons:
- The obvious; and
- Chris might come to your house, roll you around in carpet tacks and then dip you in rubbing alcohol. Seriously. He’ll do it. Stick with V-Diet.
Fitness-speak:
TBW - total body weight
LBM - lean body mass
P+F - protein plus fat meal
P+C - protein plus carbs (both P+F and P+C are given a nice overview in this article by Shugs, “The Essential Berardi”: http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=460027 )
GPP - general physical preparedness (nice CW article on this at http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=468125 )
General fun:
IMO - In my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
wrt - with regards to
LOL - laugh out loud
LMAO - laughing my ass off
ROFL - rolling on floor laughing
So there you have it! You’re very own Enigma machine for cracking the T-Nation code. Hopefully this can get you off to a fairly good start and I’m sure other members will chime in as well.
Dangerously hardcore = good times.
Dangerously confused = not good times.
Kuz
- Return with honor.
FYI, that little punk from NY that was making fun of your accent ticked me off. When he was on my team he kept saying “Dude, we’re a great team!” I almost told him, “Get off my back - I’m sick of carrying your punk ass.” lol