As a competitive powerlifter, there is one mistake you just can’t make. What is it? Bombing out. Bombing out is when you fail to complete at least one successful try in a competitive lift. When you bomb out (you go 0 for 3) you get a zero in the lift and if you are going for a total…
There is an inverse relationship between skill and arousal level. Skill is the level of difficulty, precision, and motor control that a movement requires. Arousal (no, I am not talking about that type of arousal) refers to the psychic energy one displays – how amped up you are to do something. Too much arousal screws up very high skill things,…
Note from Tim I am a big believer in programming out workouts with specific weight and rep guidelines – and unless you are involved in one on one training that is often the best way to go. But lifters don’t always feel the same every day – some times you are ready to smash the weight, on other days…
You’ll often hear about big benchers talking about the importance of the lats in the bench press, and how one must learn to use their lats in that lift. When pressed even the more experienced lifters have a hard time describing exactly why this concept is important – they just “know” it is. And to the newly initiated this advice…