Tea and Crumpets with Glenn Pendlay

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Alltid intressant att läsa vad mr Coach har att säga:)

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MR: You've used a variety of different training programs over the years, including Westside Barbell, Bill Starr's programs, Bulgarian and Russian influenced programs. Can you describe what you liked about them? What do they all have in common that makes a good program, or what does a good program need?

GP: The best programs have lots of heavy and hard full body lifts, tend to mostly train the body as a unit instead of breaking everything down into too many segments, and have built in ways to vary the training stress over a training cycle. Westside did a world of good for PL training in general because it got PLers to train harder. It’s also great because it’s a wonderful "template" that people can use, they can individualize and change things but stay within the template and still be doing a program that makes sense even after they have tinkered with it. Bill Starr wrote simple programs that used whole body lifts like squats, cleans, deadlifts, and bench presses when most people were going to isolation and bodybuilding stuff, and he advocated training the whole body 3 times a week when everyone was convinced that you had to have a week of rest every time you did a curl. The Bulgarians just plain work harder than anyone - someone has to do that just to show the rest of the world that they can train harder and have to train harder. The Russians just flat out knew how to train. I don’t think a lot of their stuff is applicable in this country for various reasons, but their ideas of periodization were the real beginnings of sports science as it applies to strength sports.

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