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Who’s The Most Impressive Powerlifter?

What you’re getting yourself into 5300 words, 17-35 minute read time Key Points 1) The most common method people use to compare relative strength is strength/bodyweight ratios. However, this standard is horribly flawed. 2) The formulas used to compare relative strength in powerlifting (most notably the Wilks formula) have their own issues. The two biggest problems with the Wilks formula are that it’s not regularly updated, and it’s notably biased against middleweight lifters. 3) Allometric scaling is an

Greg Nuckols September 18, 2015

Unleash Your Inner Superhero

What you’re getting yourself into: -3,200 words. 8-12 minute read time. If you’re in a hurry, you can skip to the last section for the takeaways, but they may not make as much sense unless you actually read this one all the way through. Key points: Your beliefs influence your physiology directly, and the choices you make. In these ways, they strongly influence your training success. These effects have been noted in almost every area

Greg Nuckols November 1, 2014

What it Takes to Break World Records

This is something I feel like I need to say And I don’t mean that in a “this needs to be said, so I may as well say it,” way. I mean it in a, “It does not benefit me to say this, and I benefit from not saying it, so I feel like I’m the one who is supposed to say it because then people will actually listen,” way. This is what it

Greg Nuckols September 16, 2014

Making Sense of Strength

“The Map is not the Territory” -Alfred Korzybski For starters, I just want to be up front about the fact that the subjects covered in this post are very vast subjects. There are dozens of very long, technical books written about them, and this post is just a basic introduction. Actually, it’s more like an introduction to an introduction – I’m currently 20,000 words into a book talking about all of this stuff in much

Greg Nuckols September 9, 2014

Tying a lot of things together – individualization, genetics, and biofeedback

Today I got another article published on T-Nation, and it covers a topic I need to tie back into some other concepts I’ve written about – genetic limitations and personalization of training. In many training studies, you get 30% of “nonresponders!” Between 1/5 and 1/3 of people who take up an exercise protocol don’t get any stronger, don’t improve their endurance, and/or don’t gain any muscle. This runs counter to essentially everything “we” fitness people

Greg Nuckols April 25, 2014

Genetics – How much do they limit you, and what can you do about it?

I’ll warn you from the outset – this post is going to be a cold dose of reality. There’s a ray of sunshine at the end, but it’ll take a while to get there. We’re talking about genetics. This isn’t something I like to talk about publicly a lot, but I get asked about it in private often enough that I think I should just put my views out in the open. It’s also something

Greg Nuckols February 6, 2014

‘Strong’ is Determined by the Size of Your Pond

A friend of mine at the gym at school got sponsored not too long ago. He does physique stuff (hasn’t actually competed, but is still jacked enough to pick up a sponsorship. Pretty legit), so we come to a discussion with totally different paradigms. He has helped me a lot with “feeling” muscles that don’t seem to want to fire properly, and I help him with approaching strength-based programming. It’s a surprisingly productive relationship for

Greg Nuckols February 23, 2013

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