A 2-Way Split Training Regimen for Building Incredible Strength and Power with a Size-Building Side Effect An East-Meets-West Strength and Power Routine In September of last year, I published a training program called The Pure Power Program . It is a full-body routine that rotates between heavy workouts, light sessions, and “speed” workouts. Feel free to read that original program if you wish—especially if you are looking for a full-body regimen—but in this article, I want to show how you can use it in a 2-way split program. I will also review all of the “tenets” that comprises the program, so don’t feel as if you have to be familiar with my original article to continue here. This is an “East meets West” program because it utilizes principles from “Eastern” countries (Russian extensively but also Bulgarian to some extent), primarily on the “heavy” training days, along with principles that are borrowed from b...
High-Volume, High-Frequency Training and Realistic Muscle-Building for the Natural Bodybuilder This article, I will admit, is in many ways nothing more than an excuse to show off my youngest son Garrett’s physique as seen above. But since I have a good feeling that he has exactly the kind of body that most men would love to acquire, I also want to discuss his training philosophy and some lessons that you can learn from it. First, however, let’s discuss the 3 training variables of volume, frequency, and intensity. If you’re familiar with my point-of-view, you can skip ahead to the next paragraph. If you’re not, then pay attention! In order to get results out of resistance training, no matter your goals, you must properly balance and manipulate the 3 training variables of volume, frequency, and intensity. Two of the variables need to be high (or one high and the other moderate) and the remaining v...