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Bullshit, gimmick, sharlatan were all popular words when the second of Costa's books came out. He also recruited The Golden Eagle to endorse his manuals and add legitimacy but, it didn't work. The manual was scrutinized by everyone in the know and would still receive overwhelming criticism today. However, I am not everyone a decided to take another look as I am always in the lookout for old or new concepts to add to my training. By this point I suspect you want to know what I found this time around.
Before I do let me warn you of two things. One, I am not the last word in training, but am very well read (and not the crap put out by Kennedy and Weider, rather SuperTraining and the like) and programming is my passion. 2.Most bbers and powerlifters stopped learning a long time ago and have little interest in learning new things since they currently know it all. So, if this is you just hit the back button. If not, cool let's talk about BBB and how it was ahead of it's time.
First find, DUP or daily undulating periodization. He didn't call it that, but the entire program changes the rep scheme daily to hit the muscle with different intensities and improve recovery. Second score, overreaching. Overreaching,unlike over training is a good thing. Top strength coaches use it to accelerate the progress of their athletes. Third find, deloading. This concept is highly ovelooked by bbers but, powerlifter and proffesional athletes realize that deloading is as important as accumulation when it comes to supercompensation. And the last thing is high frequency training. HFT is the rage in Pling and has been in Olympic lifting for some time. It should be on every serious bbers watch list as well. When the norwegian pling team simply doubled their training frequency while cutting volume in half they nearly doubled their gains.
I don't know about you but I am intrigued and will continue to look this book over and am actually apply some if it's principles as it makes sense now some 20 years later.
Hawk
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Before I do let me warn you of two things. One, I am not the last word in training, but am very well read (and not the crap put out by Kennedy and Weider, rather SuperTraining and the like) and programming is my passion. 2.Most bbers and powerlifters stopped learning a long time ago and have little interest in learning new things since they currently know it all. So, if this is you just hit the back button. If not, cool let's talk about BBB and how it was ahead of it's time.
First find, DUP or daily undulating periodization. He didn't call it that, but the entire program changes the rep scheme daily to hit the muscle with different intensities and improve recovery. Second score, overreaching. Overreaching,unlike over training is a good thing. Top strength coaches use it to accelerate the progress of their athletes. Third find, deloading. This concept is highly ovelooked by bbers but, powerlifter and proffesional athletes realize that deloading is as important as accumulation when it comes to supercompensation. And the last thing is high frequency training. HFT is the rage in Pling and has been in Olympic lifting for some time. It should be on every serious bbers watch list as well. When the norwegian pling team simply doubled their training frequency while cutting volume in half they nearly doubled their gains.
I don't know about you but I am intrigued and will continue to look this book over and am actually apply some if it's principles as it makes sense now some 20 years later.
Hawk
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