Some Thoughts and Insights to Help You Adapt to High-Frequency Training I extoll—more often than not—the benefits of high-frequency training (HFT) over other “systems” of training. I put “system” in quotes because it’s not a system per se but more of an approach or a way of training. Within HFT, you are capable of finding numerous, actual systems of training. What qualifies as HFT? When I use the term, it refers to any program where you train a muscle group (or a movement) at least 3 days per week. Most modern workout programs are either low (once every 5 to 7 days) or moderate (twice per week) frequency regimens. Please understand that I am not “opposed” to programs that use either low or moderate frequency. If you scour this blog, you will find that I have written numerous programs that use both low and moderate frequency. There are times when such programs can be very beneficia...
The Classic Bodybuilding Approach to Cycling Workloads, Developing Work Capacity, and High-Frequency Training I’ve been lifting since the mid ‘80s, when my father bought me one of those old, shaky DP weight sets for, I think, my 13th birthday. If you are my age or older, you know well the kind of set I’m talking about, with weights made of plastic, gray in color, and filled with cement. Many a young man got their start in iron from just such a set. It was about all you could find down at the local Sears & Roebuck department store. The bench was flimsy as all get-out, the weights not that long-lasting, but, honestly, it got the job done. In many ways, it was all I (or others) needed. You could do deadlifts and cleans, overhead presses and curls, not to mention all the bench pressing your pre-pubescent heart desired. Like all other young teenagers, I wanted a big chest and biceps, so I did entirely too much benchi...