Unleaded Conditioning Tip #13 [13 of 99] by Mark Hatmaker

[Excerpted from the upcoming Unleaded: Whole Hog-- The Support Manual.]

Do It Right or Don’t Do It.

This rule has also been phrased as “You can't compensate for piss-poor effort on your sets by doing more sets.”

· It is NOT the length of a training session that dictates progress, in fact,…

· If one is drug-free, extended sessions work against your progress.

· It is NOT necessarily a function of the intensity of the training session [be that intensity defined in form of poundage or High-Intensity Interval Training HIIT], again…

· If drug-free, focusing on redlining can inhibit, slowdown, and be counter-productive to your goals.

· The Do It Right Rule asks for intensity of focus, and fulcrum-tweaked “perceived” intensity that allows joints, tendons, and ligaments to respond without future degradation. [If one requires a knee sleeve, lifter’s belt, pop ibuprofen, or require any other pre or post training prop, well…

· These 99 Principles worked for Old School Drug Free Physical Culturists, and they will work for the young and old Warrior athletes of today.

· I wager, even better for we Old Dogs, at 59-years old, this frame is mighty grateful for the rediscovery of the Old Way, in my opinion, the only Wise Way.

· For more information on Old School Unleaded Conditioning, see Unleaded Conditioning: The Whole Hog

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