Increase Your Training Intensity – Forced Repetitions

You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten the time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth.

In an earlier article I outlined the ways in which you can intensify your training. Here we’ll focus on the role that forced repetitions have to play in intensifying the training effect.

When you reach the point of muscular failure it is impossible to manage one more complete repetition of …

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Triathlon Training – Common Mistakes

Have you ever wondered why triathlon training sometimes never seems to make you faster? Perhaps you’re at a plateau, or even seeing increasingly worse race times or performances. Maybe you just wrapped up the last season, and you simply feel like you didn’t perform as well as you could have. If this describes you, then it is entirely possible that you’ve committed one of the top 11 triathlon training mistakes that the experts over at the Rock Star Triathlete Academy at have identified. Here’s the list.

1. Never Throwing Curveballs. This error is committed by the triathletes who get into …

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Training For Great Results

There are several training programs that are available in the world which claims to provide you with the six pack abs that you have always dreamed of. These training programs do not consider the fact that our body needs not only weight training to lose fat and gain muscle, but our body needs a mix of weight training and interval training to lose fat and to gain muscles. One of the programs that I highly recommend and follow is the Turbulence training program which has been used by a lot of people all over the world.

The Turbulence training program …

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