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14 May
9 Week Bench Blast, Bench Press Programmes, Uncategorized

The 9 Week Bench Blast – Smash your bench press plateau.

  • May 14, 2015
  • Posted by Marc Keys
  • Bench Press, Calculators, Cast Iron Strength 9 Week Bench Blast, Programmes
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The Cast Iron Strength bench blast is a 9 week volume based programme that uses Perplin's chart and the intensity by number of lifts devised by Hristo Hristov in 2005.  Before we go into...

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18 Mar
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High and Low days for Strength Training – Can lifters learn something from sprinters?

  • March 18, 2015
  • Posted by Marc Keys
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 IF anyone of my readers has ever come across the work of Charlie Francis you should be familiar with the concept of what he considered to be high intensity work and what he considered...

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