One post a week, every Sunday. Programming, auto-regulation, recovery, body composition. Citations where citations belong; honest where they don’t. About two-thirds of my roster reads them; the other third is too busy lifting.
Coaching scales linearly with attention. The math is uncomfortable for the business model, honest about the practice. A note on capacity, retention, and the right number.
The literature on RPE auto-regulation is good but most readers misapply it. RPE is a velocity proxy, not a motivation proxy. A short post on how I cue it with new athletes.
Eighty percent of athletes I take on aren't over-training. They're under-sleeping. The first thing I measure isn't a lift; it's a Saturday morning. Citations from Walker, Patel, McDonald.
It is possible. It requires three things, in order: maintain protein intake, maintain volume, maintain sleep. The order matters because the trade-offs run in that direction.
Most lifters have heard the acronyms; few have a working sense of how to apply them. A walkthrough using last block's data from one of my athletes (with permission).
Some days the prescribed load reads RPE 11. The right move is to back off. The hard part is the second time it happens in the same block.
