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Training F.A.Q.What types of individuals and/or athletes has Science Link trained? Not only have we worked with nearly every type of human being from nearly every walk of life, we've worked with a bunch of non-human athletes (horses and rodents). Here is a list of the types of primates that we've worked with:
What is the training philosophy of Science Link? Our training philosophy centers on resource management. Individuals only have a limited amount of resources (time and recovery capacity) to devote to training. Therefore an individual must prioritize the appropriate variables and understand the correct work to rest ratios (within a workout as well as between workouts). One unique aspect of our approach is that we believe that integrated training, nutrition, and supplementation programs can accelerate your progress, and increase your recovery ability thus allowing for more work to be done at a given point in time. In the end, this philosophy translates to a badass physique! See Weightlifting and Muscle Recovery, Solving the Post Workout Puzzle Part I and Part II, Recovery Update, and JB's Appetite For Construction columns for recovery discussions. Top If I'm interested only in looking better (increasing muscle mass or decreasing fat mass) how should I train? The question should be "how should I train and eat?" since it's the interaction between these two variables that determines what you accomplish. Check out The Creation of a T-Man and The Winning Formula Part I and Part II for some suggestions. In the near future many more articles on the training aspect of gaining muscle mass and decreasing fat mass will appear on the site. Suffice it to say that if your goal is aesthetic in nature, there are many, many ways to achieve it. Top I'm a football player interested in getting bigger and stronger; can I follow your training recommendations for bodybuilders? You sure can – if you want to decrease your performance! Every type of athlete has special needs for training based on the demands of their sport therefore your program should be specifically designed for you. Sign up for our servicesnow and we’ll put you on the right track. In the meantime, understand this. The absolute worst thing you could do is follow a bodybuilding program because the relatively slow training tempo of bodybuilding training will cause your muscles to contract more slowly. In addition muscle imbalances can be created with bodybuilding training since most of the movements are already stabilized for you. When this occurs, stabilizing during sport play is much more difficult and injury is the result. And finally, you shouldn’t do bodybuilding training as an athlete because you may have the overwhelming inclination to shave your entire body, paint your skin with imitation tan, and flaunt your striated glutes after every big play. Top I'm a weight lifter and am interested in getting bigger and stronger. With the recent "functional training" craze, should I incorporate some functional training into the mix? We think that people have misconstrued the function of “functional training”. Functional training, by definition, means training in order to better function in your environment. For example, Carter has recently taken up pie eating as a hobby. For him, functional training consists of a program of heavy fork lifting (he has a special fork that weighs 50lbs), resisted breathing techniques to assist in breathing when his stomach impinges on his diaphragm (this entails placing his head in a paper bag with a tiny hole for air exchange), and finally, he’s constructed a device that shoves large amounts of pie down his throat so that he can stretch out his stomach without the gag reflex preventing overconsumption. Following the “functional training” ideas of a web guru will not help Carter one bit. So ask yourself what’s functional for you. What’s your priority - size or strength? If it’s size than you have to do functional training. You have to functionally train like a bodybuilder! Why people primarily interested in getting large full muscles would train by dragging sleds and jumping up and down stadium steps is beyond me. There are much more effective ways to add muscle mass than by using the conventional types of functional training. Hypertrophy programs should be relatively low in total energy cost but very specific in terms of muscle activation. What most people think of as functional training is the very antithesis of this. So stick with the hypertrophy workouts to gain muscle mass. An example of such a workout is the one found in my Creation of a T-Man article. Look for more soon. Top How do I find a specific article or articles about a specific topic? Use our search engine to type in the name of the article you're looking for if you know what it's called. If not, type in a string of words that you're certain that the article will contain. For example, if you type in Jenna Jameson, you'll link directly to this page (and will probably be disappointed because if you searched for Jenna at Yahoo! you would have gotten a different result). Top How do I set up a consultation with Science Link and JB? Visit the services section and decide which services you wish to invest in. There you will find service-specific instructions. Top
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