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Jim Wendler - Kill Your Boss Tattoo - JimWendler.com

Doing it Right the First Time

I just had a question regarding missing reps.  I've done about 5 cycles of 531 now and love it.  Some odd days I might mess my final set up by having a bad starting position or something small.  I usually end up repeating the final set again properly, not sure if this is wise. 

In the future, if I miss the # of required reps should I:

(a) punch a hole in the gym wall, rip my hair out and worry about it for the next 4 weeks 

(b) suck it up and do it again 

(c) forget about it and continue to assistance work 

(d) kill myself

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Athletes, Cleans and Baseball - jimwendler.com - articles

Athletes, Cleans and Baseball

Athletes are not made of glass and you aren’t either.  You can train your body in a full range of motion and train heavy (relative to your strength level).  If these things didn’t work then steroids wouldn’t have made such a difference in baseball.  The same people who whine about steroids are usually the first on the stability ball.  Doesn’t make any sense to me.
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King Ragnar Lothbrok - jimwendler.com - Conditioning Queens vs. Kings

Conditioning Queens vs. Kings

After many years of running myself into the ground in high school, it wasn't until college that I realized how to properly condition. There is a trend amongst the natives that when you do conditioning, whether it be running, Prowler sprints/pushes, hill sprints, weight training circuits or whatever your poison YOU MUST STOP JUST SHY OF DEATH. This is the manly thing to do, right? No pain, no gain! No brain, all pain! (And subpar results!) You don't have to go all out - you don't have to fall to the ground, gasping for breath. It makes a good picture or YouTube video but what type of person trains for the camera?

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Delicious Chicken Recipe

Delicious Chicken Recipe

Really? * Fire up the grill. * Put chicken on grill. * Cook chicken. * Eat it. ------------------------------------------------------- New Flask now in the store   Free Training Articles - The Forum - Training Programs   

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Gaining Weight for Athletes - jimwendler.com Blog

Gaining Weight for the High School Athlete

I struggled to gain weight in high school and have gone through many of the same challenges most of you skinny guys have or will go through. By the time I was a sophomore I had been lifting for about three years, was a three-sport athlete (football, basketball, run/throw in track) and never really had any breaks from running or an off-season to gain weight. I really needed a plan for adding pounds. As a busy student athlete it had to be simple, it had to be affordable and I wasn't going to count calories or macronutrients or weigh anything, because that's neither of the above- time has always been especially valuable to me.
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You Can Out Train Your Diet - jimwendler.com Blog

You CAN Out Train Your Diet

It's not a popular sentiment to say this, but you can out train your diet. People have done it for thousands of years and people do it today. I have done it and I have seen hundreds of other people do it. It's just not popular to say that if you are selling a nutrition program, idea or fitness lifestyle.

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Goal Setting - Hill Running - jimwendler.com blog

One Goal, One Year

I have become better at reaching goals and goal setting. We all like to think we have goals and have good intentions to reach them but the reality is that many of us get side tracked on the way. Very few times is one's reach too far. I think most of us are pretty honest with ourselves. There are not a lot of 40 year old men who REALLY think they are going to make the Olympic finals in the 100m dash. The problem in reaching them is that the ACTIONS are more about the end goal than about the process to achieve them.
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Chalk, Music and Plates - Building Your Home Gym

Chalk, Music and Plates - Building Your Home Gym

Building Your Home Gym Your home gym always depends on what you want to do in your training and what your goals are. But for simplicity sake, let's just say you want to be strong and awesome. This is by far the easiest thing you can train for, and probably the cheapest. Here's what you'll need.
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Darkthrone - jimwendler.com blog

Darkthrone or Metallica: Which Training are You?

I've been on a mission the last few years to get people back to the roots of training; to get back to when training was fun, simple, and most importantly, free of the fluff and crap that has polluted MY WORLD.  When training was about strength, about moving weight, and moving bodies. About being proud of an added rep or 5 more pounds. Where performance and kicking ass are more important than how you look. Where people eat to live, not live to eat. Where trucks are pushed and sleds are pulled. Where reps and weight are counted, calories are not. Where running isn't considered the Devil and you don't measure your workout by how much you threw up.


With that in mind, here's a list of some simple rules that we follow:

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You Are Being Lied To - Jim Wendler

Saying of the Weak

"You have to find what works for you."

This is especially popular amongst the population that believes that squats, presses, rows, chins, and pulls DON'T work for them. This is because...
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Jim Wendler and Jason Pegg

Help a Friend Get Stronger

It’s that time again and everyone you know is ready to make a change. More times than not, this means they want to get their ass in a gym and get in shape. Well, I have no idea what “in shape” means to everyone but 99% of people fail for the following reasons:
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Steve Goggins

Your First Powerlifting Meet

No one's going to judge you as a person on how much weight you lift; and if they do, their opinions aren't worth a watery dump. Since you are new to this, let me offer a few points.

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Lord Mantis - Jim Wendler Blog

Weekend Q/A: A Plethora of Souls Guided to Swing Their Richards Again

Question: I wanted to get your thoughts on this. I'm a college student and next week I'm taking a new job unloading trucks at UPS. I worked there over Christmas peak season and my training went to shit. When I start next week I'll probably be working around five hours a day, five days a week. After a couple days of working there it begins to be a bitch. I'm planning on adjusting my training schedule from 4 days/week to 2 days/week. Keep in mind, I'm trying to stay as north of vag as possible, but I was wondering how you would recommend balancing my training schedule with my work schedule and avoid burning out.

Answer: I did this for a year as a job. I lifted 4 days/week and ran hills 4 days/week. You’ll be fine. First week sucks but you’ll adapt. Quick tucking it and let it swing.
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