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Set a New PR
How to Reach Your Max
Here, the key to unlocking true peak performance and knowing when you've arrived there
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Break Through Any Barrier
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It Has to Be Something You're Passionate About
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Plan to Pursue It for Years, Not Weeks or Months
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Work with People Who Know More Than You Do
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Find the Right Program and Then Stick with It
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Understand Your Weaknesses
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Focus Your Workouts
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Pick Your Moment
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Grade Yourself on a Curve
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Wait Before Evaluating
Focus Your Workouts
If you saw a triathlete, a bodybuilder, and a powerlifter working out in the same gym, their exercises and techniques would be as different as their bodies. But those are merely tactics. Their strategies might be identical.
McCormack says in his recent book, I'm Here to Win (yes, that ill-advised boast), that each of his workouts starts with the most important work of the day, followed by supplemental training that he might skip if he needs the extra time to recover.
Competitive lifters also build workouts around daily goals. A powerlifter might train four times a week, using two workouts to improve his bench press and the other two for squats and deadlifts. The most important exercise comes first, following a warmup. The other stuff matters, but you always want your best effort to go toward the lifts you'll eventually max out on.
Physique-focused gym rats tend to have the least structured training. They rely on instincts and experience to modulate the volume and intensity of a workout, but they still enter the gym with the goal of working specific muscle groups to whatever level of exhaustion they can tolerate that day.
McCormack says in his recent book, I'm Here to Win (yes, that ill-advised boast), that each of his workouts starts with the most important work of the day, followed by supplemental training that he might skip if he needs the extra time to recover.
Competitive lifters also build workouts around daily goals. A powerlifter might train four times a week, using two workouts to improve his bench press and the other two for squats and deadlifts. The most important exercise comes first, following a warmup. The other stuff matters, but you always want your best effort to go toward the lifts you'll eventually max out on.
Physique-focused gym rats tend to have the least structured training. They rely on instincts and experience to modulate the volume and intensity of a workout, but they still enter the gym with the goal of working specific muscle groups to whatever level of exhaustion they can tolerate that day.
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