I believe I heard Pavel talk about accelerated eccentrics previously when I was listening to In the Trenches Podcast by Mike Robertson.

Check out the links to the first two parts of this series.
Part I
Part II
Being “one of the guys” for a while, I know that many people cycle through new routines or look for the silver bullet of exercises all the time. There’s really never any direction with the training. Sometimes you train 3 [...]

Building muscle is still one of the baddest things to do. Despite the popularity of being the next MMA champion, having sheaths of functional, lean muscle will still make you look like a badass. The pursuit of this is often what gets the average male into weightlifting and it’s something that shouldn’t be [...]

Ignorance is bliss. Right? This was quote I heard from one of the trainers at the gym that I train at say regarding pain, “It’ll go away.” By the way, this was after the guy did a set of skill crushers and said he had pain when he turned his head to [...]

I’ve just started teaching a course which prepares students to take the NSCA-CPT exam.  This is going to be a great opportunity to help build a strong “graduating class” for the future of this industry. 

One of the most common cues when squatting or deadlifting is to “look up”. This presumably keeps people from rounding their back and dropping their chest, but is this the best thing to do?
The answer, unfortunately isn’t exactly black and white. From a technical standpoint we have to deal with what is known [...]