Post from the heyday of Myosynthesis & Amped Training c. 2005-2013
BEFORE YOU READ THIS!
Myosynthesis is closed.
These are all posts that written pre-2013.
That was an angrier and more skeptical time on a very different internet. There’s a lot of material here that I won’t agree with anymore, or which is just plain outdated. Read it at your own risk.
But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
--Michel Foucault
Here I’ve curated posts which I consider to be important, which will give new readers an overview of my ideas (and make it easier for long-time followers to find the nuggets). There’s no suggested reading order, so read at your leisure. Here I’ve curated posts which I consider to be important, which will give new readers an overview of my ideas (and make it easier for long-time followers to find the nuggets). There’s no suggested reading order, so read at your leisure.
Wondering where Amped Training went? Read here.
Daily Squatting
These were all the posts I wrote while researching and beating myself up with daily squats to a max.
- The Limits In Your Head (CNS Fatigue)
- Adrenal Fatigue Revisited [Recovery]
- How much can the CNS handle? [Stress]
- Zen and the Art of Squatting, Part II
- Zen and the Art of Squatting, Part I
- Squatting still hasn’t killed me.
- I’m addicted to daily squatting.
- Observations on Bulgarian-inspired strength training
- CNS vs. Peripheral Fatigue
- Using Feedback to Manage Your Training
- High Volume Training: What’s the story? Part 2
- High Volume Training: What’s the story?
Articles about Training
These are posts that cover miscellaneous nuts and bolts.
- Death by Monotony [Staleness]
- The Value of Restraint in Training Weights [Strength Progressions]
- Intensity & Training to Failure [Muscle Gain]
- Pain Isn’t A Virtue [Muscle & Strength Gains]
- Let’s talk about fitness.
- Recovery Strategies
- Raw Lifting and Linear Periodization
- Autoregulatory Training vs. Linear Periodization [Research Review]
- A Defense of Round-backed Deadlifting
- Occlusion, Ischemia, and ‘The Pump’
- ‘Functional’ Cross Training vs. Specific Training: General Means General
- The Difference in Speed, Power, and Explosiveness
- Remembering Unloading Weeks
- Building Muscle Mass: A Look at How Muscle Grows
- A Quick Rundown of Overtraining and Fatigue
Workout Programs
This is probably what you’re here for.
- Sheiko Powerlifting Routines
- Undulating Periodization for Bodybuilding
- Basic Bodybuilding 101: Fat Loss Workouts
- Louie Simmons on Bodybuilding
- Auto-regulating Workouts for Bodybuilding, Strength, & Fat Loss
- Basic Strength Workouts for the Beginner and the Broken
- The Finnish Deadlift Routine
- Bulgarian-style Training for Strength & Powerlifting
- APRE for Strength & Size
- Brian Siders: Intermediate Powerlifting
- Doug Hepburn: Power & Pump Routines
- The Training Methods of Bob Peoples
- 5×5 Workout Routines: Not Just a Program
- A Trip to the Gun Show: Thoughts on Training Arms
Foundations
This collection of posts relates How I Think About Things. Also included here are discussions of biology: genetics & epigenetics, neuroscience, and other topics only obliquely related to physical training.
- Leverage Volatility
- Thinking About Complexity
- A Calorie Isn’t a Calorie(?)
- A Systems View of Exercise
- Brain States & Willpower
- Outside Context Problem
- Complex Nonlinear Systems [Videos]
- The Language of Failure [Neuropsych]
- The Cortical Lottery: Dopamine and the Activity Set-point [Research Review]
Knowledge in Fitness
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
This series of posts talks about how scientific knowledge, from exercise science and nutrition, informs debates about the “right” way to train and eat for results.