Week 3 of our Snatch Focus! NOTE: If you’re new to the daily doubles, please read the very first issue, because it has many explanations. Also, the names of all of our Nemesis Workouts (along with details) can be found HERE. Learn More! Join the Snatch Domination and/or 21 Day Squat Challenge course to learn […]
Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts – Snatch Focus: Week 2
Week 2 of your snatch cycle! Same basic concepts: shoot for good (contest legal; safe) technique, rather than “max” weights; get lots of total volume (sets x reps); and have as much fun as possible! You’ll notice there is more of a focus on pulls over squats during this cycle. I’ve always felt that your […]
Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: Sept 14 – Snatch Focus: Week 1
It’s Snatch Time! Specifically, we’re starting a 4-week snatch-focused cycle. Your goal is to accumulate at least 30 to 50 reps on the snatch per day, 7-days a week, for the next month. The following will ensure that, even if you’re only doing the minimum. If you are less advanced, the goal is 30 to […]
Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: Sept 7
Week 5 of a Squat Strength Cycle. This is your “taper”, or rather, a slight deload (lowering of the total load of your weekly workouts). That said, don’t mistake this as a “contest taper”, as it isn’t meant to deload you that much. Your total load is certainly much lower this week than it was […]
Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: August 17 – 23
Here is your weekly set of twice-per-day workouts. We’re in the 2nd week of a squat strength cycle. You’ll be regularly hitting a squat workout of ours named Super Nova, which is an attempt to get 35 total reps in as little as 3 sets with a specific weight (for instance, 3×12 would do it). […]
Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: August 10 – 16
This is the first installment of a weekly set of “daily double” workouts for those who would like to start lifting twice a day. These are exclusively designed for an “intermediate” level lifter (or above), that is, someone past our White Belt phase. It is expected that the first few days (even weeks) of training […]
Quality vs Quantity? Bullshit – Stop Counting Reps (Do This Instead)
It’s time to stop holding yourself back with bullshit notions that are clearly false — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! “Quality vs Quantity” is a false dichotomy – they are not opposites, they are complements! They go together just fine. In fact, if you don’t have BOTH high quality AND high quantity, you simply […]
How to Get ALL the Things! The Point of Periodization in Strength Training
If you keep doing everything at once, you’ll suck at all the things forever. Learn how to reach all of the goals you have for yourself in the gym — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy. The “trick” to reaching ALL of your goals is to focus on one at a time. Yes, you can […]
How to Set Bigger Goals & (Actually) Reach Them
In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy How to Avoid Getting Eaten by Sharks… OR… How to Set Bigger Goals & Actually Reach Them! You’re on a boat on the ocean, you see an Island in the distance… how to you reach the Island? Now go lift something heavy, Nick Horton
Bigger GainZ by Going with the Flow: Surfing vs Tic-Tac-Toe
The game of Tic-Tac-Toe was fun… until you learned the trick. Thankfully, real life isn’t at all like deterministic games like Tic-Tac-Toe, or even Chess. Instead, real life is filled to overflowing with randomness and chance. If your programs and workout routines don’t take randomness into account — don’t incorporate the fact that your body […]
