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Author of the best-selling Muscle and Strength Pyramid books. I write no-nonsense nutrition and training guides. Join 100,000 others and download my Nutrition Setup Guide.
In the last email, I talked about the hierarchy for stress management — one of the four pillars of physique change. Today, I want to talk about training. When it comes to training, we’re often taught to focus on the wrong things — flashy techniques over foundational principles that drive results. That’s because the most important levels — adherence, volume, and intensity — aren’t catchy, and they require nuance. The Training Pyramid has six levels. Here's our most up-to-date version, which...
In the last email, I talked about the hierarchy of importance for sleep, one of the four pillars of physique change. Today, I want to discuss stress. There are six levels to the stress hierarchy pyramid: Let's dive in! 1. Total Stress Load and Adaptive Reserve At the top of the hierarchy is the total amount of stress you are coping with. This is not just what you do in the gym, but everything you experience outside the gym as well (work, relationships, sleep loss, calorie deficits, etc.). All...
In the last email, I talked about the four pillars of physique change: Sleep Stress management Exercise Nutrition I made the point that understanding the frameworks for each will help you find your bottlenecks and break through plateaus. Today, I want to start with the simplest: sleep. If you don't get enough sleep, you'll be hungrier and more irritable, and your recovery from training (and therefore growth) will be impacted. I'll come back to what I mean by "enough" in a moment, but first,...