I’ve just read a wonderful book on strength training called “Modern Trends in Strength Training,” by Charles Poliquin and I think you’ll find this information interesting.

In order to have a successful resistance training program for strength, you must consider the concept of maximal voluntary contraction. This can be defined as the ability or attempt to recruit as many motor units as possible to develop force. Intensity is the key here. In order to increase intensity, a person must work at a higher percentage of their maximum ability by lifting heavier weights or moving the weight faster. Proponents of the “super slow” weight-training programs claim their programs are more intense however, reducing the speed of movement merely increases the time under tension not the intensity.

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You can tweet via anything you like that are listed on the directory. Posting and Updating new status using cool applications like iPhone, iPad, Android, Twitter, Google and more. You do not need to have the device or applications on your own, you just need to allow your Twitter to access and you will be ready to go. Just type any status you want to post via and press the Tweet button, and you see the tweet updated on Twitter time line.

It resembles a cannon-ball with a kettle-handle, a relic of the late-nineteenth-century-strongman lore when all barbells and dumbbells were black, spherical and arcane, and there were no racks, pulleys, machines or even benches. And certainly no women messing with any of this stuff -which made it all the more surreal, one Friday evening, to pass through the bright rows of the latest high-tech body machinery at a top local gym to a far corner, where a young lady swung this anachronistic piece with studied deliberation.

Pamela’s twenty-four, an IT specialist for Siemens, and she does photography on the side. Sturdily-built, serious behind small-rimmed steel glasses, she listens as her instructor, a tall young ex-Marine named Will, exhorts her: “Make it float!” She does it again, this one-arm snatch, dipping her hips as the cannon-ball arcs toward the ceiling, and swings her arm to hold it straight overhead. Another minor correction, and she does it again. And again, because she didn’t lock her arm or flex her hips to Will’s satisfaction and he’s not going to count it. Two more times and he’s pleased. “Put it down,” Will tells her. “Time for active rest!” Pamela, drenched with sweat, knows what this euphemism means, but doesn’t bat an eyelash. For the next few minutes she’ll be doing shuttle-sprints up a stair-well as Will stands above with a stop-watch. That’s one form of “active rest.” Another is “hand-to-hand,” a continuous passing of the kettlebell from hand to hand between the legs. Either way, it’s as close to a respite as she’ll get before the next drill.

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In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in how the tactical community – for example SWAT teams, special operations military and others – approaches it’s PT training designed to better prepare them for the job. The majority of this change has come from the individual operators looking to improve their general physical preparedness (GPP) for the job via an emphasis on more “functional” training.

Let’s be honest here, the term “functional training” or “functional fitness” is all the rage right now, some of it being well thought out, some of it being crap, but I digress…this positive trend toward training that is more functional and job applicable or “real world” in nature, has recently found some acceptance by various branches of the military and tactical law enforcement community, just as it has in the civilian market. Yes, everyone and his mother has jumped on the “functional fitness/functional training” bandwagon, and that’s not a bad thing per se. However, let’s just say some do it better then others…

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