Maximizing the SAID Principle

The SAID principle is one of the fundamental principles of any physical training. The acronym stands for Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. What this means is that the body will change and adapt to whatever stimulus you give it. For instance, if you perform...

How Much Should You Be Training?

How much should you be training to achieve optimal gains? Too much and you will burn out, but too little and you won’t challenge your body enough to make it change.   Overtraining is a very common problem among new lifters, and even experienced ones. It is easy...

How Strong Should You Be?

How much strength do you really have to gain before you consider yourself strong? There will come many points in your training when you will look a the loaded bar and say, that looks real heavy. You could be looking at it from two perspectives – from the...