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Dear Charles,
The other day, I had a long
massage just before my workout, and I think it actually made
me weaker. I always hear that massage is supposed to help
improve recovery, so do I maybe need to seek out another therapist?
Or should I avoid massage before workouts?
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Dear Charles,
I read your book Special Topics
in Martial Arts Conditioning which emphatically encourages
weight training for improved martial arts performance. After
implementing a few weight training cycles into my Tae Kwon
Do competition preparation, I ended up slower and feeling
unusually awkward. What do you think I'm doing wrong?
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Dear Charles,
I'm on a split routine, working
out each body part twice a week. My partner and I are trying
a new exercise tempo, really emphasizing the the negative.
When our second pec day came around, we were both too sore
to get anything done. Do you need more rest after negatives?
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Dear Charles,
When I was a college athlete,
we had strength training programs that detailed just about
every rep, set, and weight that we were going to try to accomplish
in any particular workout. For the first time in my life,
I'm training in a commercial gym and see no one using a program,
or recording their results. I suspect this is why so few people
make gains in commercial gym; would you agree?
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On your website I read that
you put 77 pounds on a weightlifter’s front squat in
88 days without ever training that lift. How did you go about
that?
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Charles, I do a workout where
I do nose crushers, then bench press, then power snatches,
and finish with ball crunches. I fatigue quickly and haven’t
been making progress. Should I up my calories, or is there
a supplement you recommend for sustained energy?
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Charles, "Lower it slow
and under control" is a mantra among experienced trainers
in the gym. So I was surprised at a seminar last weekend to
hear Dr. Fred Hatfield say he would de-emphasize the eccentric
portion of his squats in preparation for personal records.
Is that really effective?
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Mr. Staley, I usually spend
the last four weeks of power meet preparation pyramiding up
to my 1RM's in every workout. Do you think I should use some
static sets as a change of pace?
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