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Favorite SupersetsWritten on May 4, 2010 at 4:00 am, by Eric Cressey I’ve come to realize that over the past ten years, I’ve gotten a little spoiled. Of course, there are a variety of reasons: TMUSCLE readers are some of the more educated weight-training consumers on the ‘Net; I’ve been around Division 1 athletes who have four years of strength and conditioning continuity in their lives; I’ve lifted alongside world-class powerlifters; I have a host of athletes who are completely “indoctrinated” with my training philosophies, as it’s the only thing they’ve ever known. Yeah, I guess you could say that I’ve become a bit of a lifting snob; I’m always surrounded by people who know how to interpret my programs, leaving me to just program, coach technique, help select weights, and turn up the volume on the stereo. 6 Dirty Tricks to Instantly Increase Muscle and Boost PerformanceWritten on March 8, 2010 at 5:56 am, by Eric Cressey When we were seven, my friends and I loved to eat spinach. Not because we liked the taste. God no. Raw spinach tasted like, well, leaves, and the goop we’d spoon out of the can was vile, smelly stuff. No, we ate spinach because Popeye ate spinach. It made him instantly muscular and powerful-a can of spinach and he could punch through brick walls. We could only imagine how it would transform our pre-pubescent bodies into superhero physiques. We shoveled it down our throats, testing our gag reflexes, and satisfying our mothers. What I Learned in 2009Written on February 28, 2010 at 9:01 am, by Eric Cressey Four years ago, I wrote What I Learned in 2006, my first year-in-review series that continues to this day. Since then, this website has gone from T-Mag to TMUSCLE. I’ve opened my own facility, got engaged, and thanks to a little bit of both, lost a bunch of my hair. Interestingly, people seem to be writing “What I Learned in 2009″ series all over the Internet. I’ve seen the phrase flown on banners behind airplanes, “tweeted” by NBA superstars at halftime, and printed across the back of girls’ short-shorts. But let’s get something straight, folks: you’re reading the original right here. Got it? Good. Now let’s move on. The Tao of CresseyWritten on January 18, 2010 at 9:08 am, by Eric Cressey “… Tao is often referred to as ‘the nameless’, because neither it nor its principles can ever be adequately expressed in words.” Aw, what the hell, we’ll give it a shot. No questions, no time limit, and no stone unturned. Training? Nutrition? A little piss and vinegar? It’s all here. The following is what happens when you get on the phone with a top-level strength and conditioning coach and hit “record.” Sign-up Today for our FREE Baseball Newsletter and Receive a Copy of the Exact Stretches The Squat: Good Exercise Gone Bad?Written on December 3, 2009 at 6:16 am, by Eric Cressey A few weeks ago a video of strength coach Mike Boyle presenting at a seminar hit the Internet, and boy did it piss some people off. Why? Just take a look at this quote from Boyle: “This is going to be the hardest thing for people to accept. The muscle-head crowd, the T-Muscle crowd…they’re gonna be like, ‘Mike you’re saying don’t do squats any more.’ Yes, I’m saying don’t do conventional squats any more.” I watched the clip again. No more squatting? But isn’t it the king of lower body exercises? Just what the hell was going on? So I called Boyle to get his thoughts. Then, because I wanted to hear other points of view, I called Dave Tate, Christian Thibaudeau, and Eric Cressey. The Regular Guy Off-Season Strength ProgramWritten on September 8, 2009 at 4:38 am, by Eric Cressey Pop quiz, hotshot. You need to add some plates to the bar and pack some meat on your bones. You’ve got precious few weeks to accomplish both, but only have four days per week to train. What do you do? What do you do? I’ve asked this question to myself countless times and only recently have I come up with what I believe is the most effective method. Forget total-body training. Forget upper and lower splits. The trick is to, well…I’ll get to that in a minute. You Ain’t Got No Meat — Build Up Your “Mirror Muscles”Written on July 7, 2009 at 7:13 am, by Eric Cressey Feel like swallowing some bitter truth today? Okay Spunky, first strip down to your Power Rangers shorts. Now grab a compact from your girlfriend’s purse and sashay over to the full-length mirror on the back of her bedroom door. Face away from the full-length mirror and use the smaller mirror on her compact to eyeball your backside — your entire backside from the top of your shoulders to several clicks south of Glutesville. Personally, I’d also use one of those cardboard boxes with a couple of pinholes in it, the kind that kids use during solar eclipses to keep from going blind, because what you see might scar you emotionally and physically. - Eric Cressey Lower Back Savers: Part 3Written on June 4, 2009 at 9:36 pm, by Eric Cressey Sooner or later, you’re going to tweak your back, and there’s nothing you’ll ever experience, perhaps shy of limb dismemberment, that’ll put a stop to your training as cruelly or effectively. Of course, if you’ve already had some back problems, you know what we’re talking about. Either way we recommend you bone up on the back. It’s one complex little beastie. Lower Back Savers: Part 2Written on May 14, 2009 at 8:56 am, by Eric Cressey In Part 1 of this series, we outlined several crucial prerequisites to understanding the nature of lower back pain. In this installment, I’ve got a few more thoughts in this regard, and then we’ll get to work on strategies for preventing these problems in the first place, and working around them once they’re in place. You don’t need me to tell you that back pain – any chink in your armor, for that matter – will prevent you from making progress in the gym. Lower Back Savers: Part 1Written on May 5, 2009 at 10:19 am, by Eric Cressey Sooner or later, you’re going to tweak your back, and there’s nothing you’ll ever experience, perhaps shy of limb dismemberment, that’ll put a stop to your training as cruelly or effectively. Of course, if you’ve already had some back problems, you know what we’re talking about. Either way, we recommend you bone up on the back. It’s one complex little beastie. |
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