BCAA’s: A quick and easy user’s guide
A quick and easy guide for lifters on how to optimally use BCAA’s to maximize muscle protein synthesis. Get the most out of your training sessions by following the BCAA guidelines in this post.
Eating as a Lifter
As a lifter, eating is a critical part of your training. Progressing as a lifter is all about the stress – recovery – adaptation cycle. And recovery is almost entirely dependent on two factors: eating and sleeping. Assuming sleep is not an issue, it may not be much of an exaggeration to say that eating is about half your training.
Some new lifters, especially those starting out underweight, may find eating enough to be even more challenging than the act of lifting, at least at the beginning. This blog post will attempt to lay out some strategies to help new lifters in this category to successfully meet their nutritional requirements so that they can continue to add weight to the bar and become stronger.
Why 3×5 > 5×5 (for the novice)
Perhaps one of the hardest things to know for someone just starting out with strength training is which program to follow. With a surfeit of programs out there, and with all of them seemingly effective at building strength, it can be hard to know which program to select.
This post will attempt to lay out in simple terms why a novice lifter should use a set and repetition scheme of 3 sets of 5 repetitions, like that advocated by the Starting Strength program.
While the highly popular 5×5 set and repetition scheme will also yield progress, 3×5 will actually produce better strength gains in less time for the novice.