The Drop Set – Episode 86: 10 Ways to Screw Up Your Prep, Are Studies Worth Following?

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Ever had a prep that didn’t turn out quite the way you had envisioned when you started?  If your hand isn’t up, your a liar – there, I said it!  Today I break down my top 10 reasons WHY so that we can strategize on how to prevent things from turning south.  Also, it’s becoming ever popular to cite scientific...
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Shoulders Lagging? Fix Your Lateral Raise Form!

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Your Lateral Raise Form Might Suck – Let’s Fix It! Shoulders can be stubborn to get growing, and often times it comes down to execution.  Many trainers, coaches, and programmers these days are starting the trend of easing up on heavy pressing work, because the shoulder is a complex joint (I’ve often said the most complex joint, but a former client...
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Varying approaches and strategies for training legs

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There are a billion (precisely…I counted) articles online talking about the best way to train legs, why you NEED to train them twice a week, why training them more than once a week is a bad idea, or why you should only squat and forget everything else. This is not one of those articles. Instead I will talk about various...
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Top 5 tips for chest training

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Guys tend to train chest a LOT.  I see plenty of dudes in the gym who hit chest every day and yet it looks severely under-trained.  Why?  As with everything, the devil is in the details. Just doing the work is NEVER enough.  How the work is executed is everything. So if we’re gonna hit chest, let’s hit it right and maybe...
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Your training program sucks

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I hate being negative, it’s just not really in my nature (sarcastic, yes – negative, no).  So while I hate the negative title of this post, it’s probably true. For every man and woman who steps on stage looking their absolute best, there are probably 3-5 who missed the mark considerably (I’m being generous with that number).  For every person...
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