AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH MAGAZINE
ISSUE 24 - 6/04/2004
1. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"I knew that I was becoming successful when people who I didn't know and had never met started saying bad things about me."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Some people can take criticism and some people cannot. However, if you want to be successful then you better be ready to deal with it. Honest criticism is necessary in order to grow and improve. If you are terrible at something you need to know that. No one is doing you a favor by telling you that you are great at something if you are not. Regardless and more often than not, people criticize you to tear you down. They do not want you to succeed at anything because it accentuates their inadequacies. At the end of the day take it as a compliment when people that you do not know and have never met criticize you. Don't worry about people talking about you. It is only time to worry when people stop talking about you.
Live Life Aggressively!
Mike Mahler
2. AGGRESSIVE STRENGTH TRAINING ARTICLE
Are You Getting Stronger Or Just Kidding Yourself?
Many trainees get excited about switching to a new program or training style and allegedly making progress. However, if you really evaluate things objectively you may realize that you have not made any progress at all. Let me provide a personal example. Years ago I decided to give the super slow training a shot (I know, I know the foolishness of youth). The protocol called for a ten second negative followed by a five second positive. While I could bench press 315lbs at the time for a single using a regular tempo, I found that I could only do 135lbs in super slow form for five reps. A month later I was doing 200lbs for five reps on the bench press in super slow fashion. I was excited because I though that I increased my bench press by 75lbs in a month. Moreover, I thought that my new gains in strength would carry over to the bench press using a regular tempo. In other words, I thought that I would now be able to bench press a minimum of 350lbs+. Well, I was in for a rude awakening when I put 315lb on the bar and barely pressed it once. It actually felt harder than it did before I did the super slow program.
Training is a very specific thing. If you train in one fashion do not expect to carry over effectively to another fashion. Just because you are getting stronger in one style does not mean that you will get stronger in another. In my case regarding the bench press, increasing one-rep strength requires focusing on fast twitch muscles. Training in super slow fashion works slow twitch fibers. Thus, super slow is not an effective training protocol for fast twitch strength. If you want to get strong at something, look at the kind of strength that you need to build to get the job done and focus your training on that.
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Until next time.
Live Life Aggressively!
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Mike Mahler