SECTION ONE
POWER TRAINING

CONTENTS

Articles

• Mind Over Muscle: the 5x5x5 Program

• The ‘3 to 5’ Method: Strength Training for Special Weapons and Tactics Teams

• Make a Quantum Strength Leap with ‘Progressive Movement Training’

• Hardgainer? – I’ll Fix It.: A DeLorme Method Inspired Six Week Hypertrophy Cycle

• ‘Fatigue Cycling’: Another Secret of the Russian Bodybuilding Underground

• The Russian Squat Assault

• The Presence of Power and Three Super Squat Techniques to Develop It

• Bench Press Training, the Russian National Powerlifting Team Style

Questions and Answers

• ‘Holistic bodybuilding’? – No, power bodybuilding!

• ‘Workout’ or ‘practice’?

• Be strong, stay fresh

• What does it mean, “training the nervous system?”

• Is traditional power cycling obsolete?

• A straightforward power cycle

• A last minute peaking cycle

• Power up with singles

• Build might and muscle with the classic ‘countdown to power’

• Russian sets and reps for power

• What do the Russians think of pyramids?

• A PTP/ladder hybrid to jump start your bench

• Moscow bench press champion’s program

• Wave the weights for power

• ‘Interval circuit training’ for power on a tight time budget

• A simple power cycle

• The RKC Ladder: a shock program for shoulder strength and mass

• Slow gear for strength

• To pause or not to pause the deadlifts, that is the question

• Light weights, hard deadlifts

Questions and Answers

• Jurassic training revisited: building tendon and ligament strength

• What are the ‘high-tension techniques’?

• High-tension techniques – not just for the gym

• ‘Lifting the weight’, ‘feeling the muscle’, or…?

• Know your max without testing it?

• Use your head for max power, muscle, and safety

• ‘Active negatives’ for power, muscle, and safety

• Heavyweight advantage for the lean

• Boost your bench… with shrugs!

• Dumbbell bench power

• Squat big with bad knees?

• ‘Dead squats’ for power

• Protect your back with a ‘virtual belt’

• “Iron fundamentalism”?

• Old-Timer training Q & A

• Drills that rule, drills that drool

• Free weights for beginners?

• A no compromise home gym on a budget

• Can single joint exercises build strength?