Sucker Punch: Dan John

I enjoy reading T-Muscle. Overall, they have more good articles than most any other bodybuilding magazine or on-line bodybuilding site, but I have to say that the best thing about them is Dan John—if it wasn't for T-Muscle then I would never have been introduced to some of the best training articles (and honest advice) from the pen of Dan John. He ranks right up there with Bill Starr and George Turner. If you don't believe me, then be sure to read T-Muscle's latest interview with him. Just click on the link below:

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Mega Mass & Power

The Best High-Volume, High-Intensity, Low-Frequency Programs for Mass and Strength & Power Yesterday, while I was finishing up, ironically enough, my latest high-frequency training article, I received an email from a reader. He said that he’d been using a couple of my HFT programs the last few months. He said that he got pretty good results from them, and he now understands why it is that I “push” them. But, he also said, he had an issue. He didn’t enjoy training with them as much as he did with high-volume, high-intensity, low-frequency programs. He said that he just liked training with a multi-split program where he trained each muscle group just once per week. So, he wanted to know what I thought was the “best” program that didn’t involve high-frequency or full-body workouts. The remainder of this essay is essentially what I wrote to him, albeit in more detail and a lot more fleshed out. Here...

The High-Frequency 6x6-8 Regimen

Another High-Frequency Hypertrophy Program for the Natural Lifter I write a lot about high-frequency training (HFT). I think on average—assuming the lifter has the time to make it to the gym frequently—it’s the best form of training for the natural lifter or bodybuilder. When I first started writing about this form of training—which I have been doing now for more than 20 years, perhaps longer—my programs mainly focused on strength training or strength training along with concomitant mass gains. Recently, however, I have created more and more hypertrophy programs using these methods. Part of that probably has to do with the fact that I have personally been using HFT for my own physique goals. As I am not getting any younger, my body often can’t handle the heavy weights that I used to enjoy training with, but it can handle high-frequency when done with “reasonable” weights. There are differen...

Bulking is Basic

“Bulking is basic. Remember that. If you try to do too much or get too clever… you’re not going to make the kind of progress that I’ve typically seen.” ~Dan John I was reading Pavel and John’s book Easy Strength when I came upon that quote above. That first sentence is so true that I don’t know why I never came up with it myself. But, like a lot of the ideas for articles that I’ve written over the years, I figured that I’d use it for an essay of my own. Which you’re now staring at on your computer screen or tablet or phone or, well, whatever-the-hell it is that you use to read my blog. By the way, and before we get into the gist of this article outright, if you want to know about a lot of the ideas that I’ve stolen over the years—that’s correct; I’ve stolen a lot of good stuff—then check out an essay I wrote last year aptly entitled “Stealing Good Ideas.” Any...

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