Twice a month, one of our coaches writes a 2,000-word piece on programming, form, recovery, or meet prep. No fitness-influencer take. No clickbait. Citations where they belong; honest conclusions where they don’t.
The block model isn't a flavor of the month. It's the underlying architecture of every program we run, with citations to Verkhoshansky and Issurin. A read on why we structure 8-week cycles the way we do.
Most lifters obsess about hip drive. The first 6 inches of the bar path off the floor is where most deadlift errors live. Three patterns we see most often, with corrections.
Why we run a deload at week 8 of every block, what loads sit at, and why most lifters run them too light. The deload is part of the work, not a break from it.
Both heavy. Both barbell-led. The implements diverge sharply by week 4. A breakdown of the carryover and the divergence — useful if you're picking a path.
On meet-day weight cuts, the math of eating to support volume blocks, and why protein targets matter less than people think and timing matters more.
Both. Why we use RPE as the primary scale on hypertrophy work and percentages on the main lifts. The honest case for using both depending on the block phase.
