So, now it’s time to get into my new training plan. There’s just one little problem. I…uh…haven’t planned it.
See, I know I need to train, and I sorta kinda know where I’m going with a lot of this, but I’m not remotely read to say “here’s the plan.” Why? Because I’m going to have to go a bit beyond my comfort zone.
Continue reading “Planning My Training Part 1: What I Want From My Plan”
In troubled times like this, people who decide to train tend to make one mistake; they training like athletes and not warriors.
To be fair, it’s difficult to know the difference. Look around the internet. There’s a ton of information out there on how to train for any number of sports. Believe me, I know. I’ve looked.
So when someone decides it’s time to start lifting, they go to the internet and plug in a search. What they get, though, is solid advice on how to train for general strength or for sports in general, which is fine.
But Barbarians? We demand more.
Why do people train for strength?
Well, the simple answer is, “To get strong.”
But why? I get why powerlifters or strongman competitors train for strength, but what about the rest of us? (Says the man who wrote a book that says, in part, that men need to be strong.)
The best answer I can give is that people train to get strong so they can do more stuff. Sounds reasonable, right?
If that’s the case, then maybe something more of us need to do is look at how strength is displayed in the real world and how that impacts our training choices.
So how is strength displayed? Continue reading “Displaying Strength”
