For EliteFTS- Originally written in 2004
Am I the only one who reads articles by other strength coaches and wonders if I’m losing my mind? Surely some of you have read some of these very same articles and ended up more confused than Ozzy after Sharon leaves him home alone. Reading about an iso-quasi-eccentric upside down fat bar hang clean supersetted with sub-maximal dynamic effort isometric depth jumps can have the profound effect of making you tear out your own hair in an effort to figure out a way to incorporate these methods into your workouts.
The sad fact is that many of the people who read these articles don’t realize that much of these methods are unnecessary and even useless. By constantly trying all of the most high tech, scientifically advanced new trends in strength training many of you will only end up spinning your wheels and never making true progress. Jumping from one method or system to the next, just because it seems more complex than the last, is not an efficient way to get bigger, stronger, and faster. As a strength coach your main goal is to get results with your athletes. Results win ball games and… …continue reading.
In the quest to get bigger, faster, and stronger many athletes overlook the most important aspect of training, which is recovery. The faster you can recover from an intense workout the faster progress will be made. Recovery does not mean just getting as much rest as possible in between training sessions. There are many steps to be taken in the road to recovery and if you want to reach your training goals it would be wise to utilize as many as possible.
Perhaps the best way to aid recovery is to avoid over-training. I will not go into great detail here about over-training because that is another article in itself. I will however give some of the signs of over-training to look out for. The first is an elevated morning heart rate. Take your heart rate first thing in the morning before getting out of bed, if it is five beats above normal this could be a symptom of over-training. Some other signs to look out for are lack of appetite, reduced sex drive, lack of energy and motivation, and insomnia. With that in mind let’s get on with the recovery methods.
Many people have said that bodybuilding ruined strength… …continue reading.
I have been getting tons of questions in the last 24 hours about Muscle Gaining Secrets. It is impossible for me to get back to everyone personally but I am pleased to announce that I will stopping by the Turbulence Training Members Site tonight at 9pm (EST) to answer questions. Everyone that purchases Muscle Gaining Secrets during our 72 hour special launch sale also gets 3 FREE months membership at Craig Ballantyne’s kick ass Turbulence Training Members Site. I owe Craig and everyone who has purchased so far a huge debt of gratitude so to show my appreciation I will be answering questions live tonight.
Until then I am in the Big Apple on “business.”
Craig and I have a little tradition we call Tattoo Wednesdays wherein I go for some new ink every other Wednesday or so and Craig…well, does nothing really. But he does email me throughout my hours in the chair to keep me entertained. The strangest part is he doesn’t even ask what I am getting done or to see pictures. Bizaree…
But he enjoys the small part he plays in Tattoo Wednesdays and that’s all that matters, really.
As you can… …continue reading.
I would like to thank everyone for all of the emails that have been flooding in during the last 48 hours and apologize for not being able to get back to everyone personally. I promise my staff and I are doing our best to get back to everyone and will be working around the clock today to handle all of your questions and concerns.
I woke up this morning to find an email in my inbox that I wanted to share with everyone because it demonstrates one of the biggest mistakes people could ever make and essentially guarantees failure in all that you do.
“Jay, your new product looks great. Here’s my one and only problem with it though. You’re lying to the world. Nobody could ever gain 80lbs of muscle without tons of steroids and you know it. It’s impossible and it’s complete bullshit. I used to respect you but now that is all gone. I can’t believe you would do something like this. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Chris
Before I share my reply I should tell you that I know this guy. We have met three or four times and I even had lunch with him… …continue reading.
Nutrition expert, Mike Roussell and I sat down for an interview recently and discussed the topic of building muscle.
Check it out:
MR: Jason, your transformation was pretty incredible going from 147lbs to 231lbs. How much trial and error did you think you went through training wise until you found what really worked?
JF: Oh man, Mike, I can’t even begin to tell you. I tried so many different methods and systems it was unbelievable. I actually started out as a beginner on a six day a week high volume body part split. This was back in the 80’s so I think I was just looking in the magazines at whatever Sean Ray or Aaron Baker or Gary Strydom were doing and just copy it exactly. Obviously that didn’t work out too well.
I entered high school weighing less than 100 pounds and after four years of training my ass off and growing almost a foot taller, I only weighed 147 pounds at graduation. So obviously, all my experimentation during high school didn’t work out to well either.
During those four years I was still doing whatever I could find in the magazines and even ordered some courses like Cybergenics… …continue reading.
Originally written for EliteFTS.com in 2003
Originally published at EliteFTS.com 11/2005
Originally written 8/2005




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