John Broz lifting philosophy
John Broz is an Olympic lifting athlete and coach who owns Average Broz Gym in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has some pretty interesting ideas on strength training that I would like to share to with you guys.
This is something I grabbed off his website from a thread about his training philosophy. IT is very general, but sums things up pretty well....
1. He doesn't believe in overtraining, only undertraining. Overtraining is part of the adaptation towards being awesomely strong. He refers to what others call overtraining as the "Dark Time" when your strength goes down and you feel like shit. To him, there's light at the end of the tunnel, and when you start making PRs in a completely fatigued state, you know you're getting somewhere.
2. He expects his gym to be a highly competitive gym on the world/olympic level within the next 2-3 years.
3. Back squats are stupid easy, and if you need to do more work without taxing yourself to much, do back squats.
4. Back Squats are generally better than Front Squats. Front squats limiting factor is always the upper back, never the legs.
5. However, front squats carry over to the clean, yay. BS carry over to the snatch more.
6. Squatting heavy should be as easy and natural as walking.
7. Something will hurt. Always. And you'll never know what it will be until you wake up in the morning.
8. If you're tired, train. If you hurt, train. If you have free time, train. If you're injured, go to the ER. If you're not injured, train.
9. Work up to a max, back of 10-20kg and do 2's or 3's to get to 30-50 reps total for the workout. Percents are BS.
10. More volume = more adaptation. Train more.
11. He's made over 50 attempts in a single workout before hitting a new PR.
12. There will never be a day when you walk in the gym and can't lift the bar. If it's one of those days, lift the bar... a lot.
13. Every time you train that's a +. Every day you don't train, that's a -.
14. push press is better than press.
15. His lifters only do light presses, and only if their elbows hurt. Elbows don't hurt, no more pressing
16. Start out by training 3 times a week, maxing every workout. Add another day, until you're up to 7, as soon as possible. Then work up to maxing every workout. Then add 2x/day
17. Assistance work is overrated, unless you're training the upper body, particularly with bench presses. In this case, do rows, pull ups, etc to stretch the front of your body and provide balance.
18. Don't bench more than 3x/week. Limit deadlifting, the lower back recovers poorly.
19. If you get pinned by a snatch, you get laughed out of the gym. Or chained to the squat rack for a month.
20. Once you start training this way, you're almost never sore.
http://www.averagebroz.com/ABG/Q_%26_A/Entries/2010/5/20_summary.html
http://www.kettlebellplanet.com/
This is something I grabbed off his website from a thread about his training philosophy. IT is very general, but sums things up pretty well....
1. He doesn't believe in overtraining, only undertraining. Overtraining is part of the adaptation towards being awesomely strong. He refers to what others call overtraining as the "Dark Time" when your strength goes down and you feel like shit. To him, there's light at the end of the tunnel, and when you start making PRs in a completely fatigued state, you know you're getting somewhere.
2. He expects his gym to be a highly competitive gym on the world/olympic level within the next 2-3 years.
3. Back squats are stupid easy, and if you need to do more work without taxing yourself to much, do back squats.
4. Back Squats are generally better than Front Squats. Front squats limiting factor is always the upper back, never the legs.
5. However, front squats carry over to the clean, yay. BS carry over to the snatch more.
6. Squatting heavy should be as easy and natural as walking.
7. Something will hurt. Always. And you'll never know what it will be until you wake up in the morning.
8. If you're tired, train. If you hurt, train. If you have free time, train. If you're injured, go to the ER. If you're not injured, train.
9. Work up to a max, back of 10-20kg and do 2's or 3's to get to 30-50 reps total for the workout. Percents are BS.
10. More volume = more adaptation. Train more.
11. He's made over 50 attempts in a single workout before hitting a new PR.
12. There will never be a day when you walk in the gym and can't lift the bar. If it's one of those days, lift the bar... a lot.
13. Every time you train that's a +. Every day you don't train, that's a -.
14. push press is better than press.
15. His lifters only do light presses, and only if their elbows hurt. Elbows don't hurt, no more pressing
16. Start out by training 3 times a week, maxing every workout. Add another day, until you're up to 7, as soon as possible. Then work up to maxing every workout. Then add 2x/day
17. Assistance work is overrated, unless you're training the upper body, particularly with bench presses. In this case, do rows, pull ups, etc to stretch the front of your body and provide balance.
18. Don't bench more than 3x/week. Limit deadlifting, the lower back recovers poorly.
19. If you get pinned by a snatch, you get laughed out of the gym. Or chained to the squat rack for a month.
20. Once you start training this way, you're almost never sore.
http://www.averagebroz.com/ABG/Q_%26_A/Entries/2010/5/20_summary.html
http://www.kettlebellplanet.com/
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hmm seems radical compared to everyone else..i wish i could sq daily cuz i love em
so even if i sq the bar its better than nothing???