Any input....

[Protobuilder]

CS is da' bomb diggity. Nice job, man. Here's links I've got, in no certain order and w/ little to no description b/c I"m lazy. But most are good.

Peak Performance (see "library" on left side for a gazillion well-thought out articles): http://www.pponline.co.uk/prewp/pp-membertop.html

Awesome bodyfat/BMR/waist-height ratio calculator: http://members.nuvox.net/~on.jwclymer/bmi.html#waist

Slo-mo snatch vid: http://womag1.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25

Dan John (cuz he rocks and his site is full of useful athlete stuff): http://www.danjohn.org/

Articles on elitefts.com: http://www.elitefts.com/articles/Current-Articles/default.asp

Kelly Baggett's awesome BB'ing articles: http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/articles.html

Another EXCELLENT article from Kelly that's great for beginners, IMO: http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/trainingphilosophy.html

Dave Tate's article on "Falling forward in the squat": http://www.elitefts.com/documents/falling_forward.htm

JV Askem's site (RIP) (very good training stuff here on OLY, squats, etc.): http://jva.ontariostrongman.ca/

Coan/Phillippi DL routine (for advanced trainees): http://www.powerpage.net/coanphildead.html

a nice hypertrophy program from Fortified Iron: http://www.fortifiediron.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=24242

An overview of periodization (warning: nerd alert): http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article folder/periodization.html

Nice set of articles by Lyle McDonald on periodization: http://www.clutchfitness.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1052&PN=1

All things squat related: http://www.strengthcats.com/squatresource.htm

 

[fortunatesun]

sorry, i see you already have the PL stickies


Downloadable videos: http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html

 

[BiggT]

Cynical Simian,

I love it, you've got most of the bases covered when it comes to most questions people starting to take interest in serious training ask. I like the choices of journals too, as all the authors are consistent, get results, and are intelligent and clear in their explanations of what they're doing.

I was gonna suggest Gayle Hatch;s site for olympic lifts, but I saw you got it already. I think Hatch's instructional vids (free and online) are really second to none in stressing the speed and explosion necessary.

I MAY have missed it, but definitely include a link to www.marunde-muscle.com Jesse's site is a great resource for people looking to incorporate strongman into their training, and lots of HIGH LEVEL guys keep journals there too........I can find the URL offhand, but Shannon Hartnett's site is awesome for any athlete, and particularly motivating to females looking for serious perfoamcne rather than fluff training, a great layout of a routine for throwers is on there too....and I must say she looks damn good in those swimsuit shots to boot.

 

[BiggT]

Oh, yeah....if I missed it, great link is Jackals Gym....it is the Gillingham's site....GREAT, GREAT, GREAT deadlift video available, very affordable and well worth it. Brad Gillingham pulls over 800lbs with a hook grip, trains a lot of cleans and front squats too. He power cleans 350 as a "warm-up" to deadlifting and he uses nice, polished form and makes the 350 look like an absolute joke......very motivating.....he also has DLed over 800 in competition something like 40 times, so he practices what he preaches.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Thanks for the links and feedback, everybody. I put them in a "further reading" section, which I tried to keep pretty general by limiting the links to collections of, rather than specific, articles.

PB, I had you in mind when I asked if anyone had any links...lots of good stuff.

BiggT, that first link is great. I googled the other two, but I'm not sure how I'd incorporate what are essentially personal sites into the sticky. Anyway, here's the updated version...


This is pretty simple and general, and intended mostly to provide basic information for new people and some convenient links for the regulars.

Programs:
Disclaimer: This does not purport to be a comprehensive collection of styles of training. Rather, it reflects some of the programs that are used most often and considered well-designed and effective by the members of this board. Very generally, this means you'll find an emphasis on compound lifts, progressive resistance, and higher frequency than in the typical "bodypart X once per week" BBing split.
The hope is that eventually you'll apply the principles learned from "cookie-cutter" program runs to your own program design. A few journals by forum members are included to show what runs of each program look like and some potential modifications.

5x5:
Madcow's Site - Excellent general training resource and intro to the 5x5. Do yourself a favor and just read everything here.
Direct links to the programs for the impatient:
Mark Rippetoe's 3x5 (Beginner)
Linear/Single Factor 5x5 (Intermediate)
Periodized/Dual Factor 5x5 (Advanced)

Journals:
(see the above site for more journals/results)
Rippetoe 3x5:
GSP
Single Factor:
anotherbutters
asdfzxcv
Dual Factor:
Guinness
Jim Ouini
Examples of extended DF volume phase with AAS:
Guinness
Blut Wump

Westside (WSB):
Westside Barbell Template
Example 8-Week WSB Program

Journals:
Guinness

Hypertrophy Specific Training (HST):
Surprisingly, the best place for HST info is the official site...
HST Intro
Articles
Forum
FAQ
HST summary and setup, a 3rd person perspective

Journals:
Guinness
Jim Ouini


Exercises:
Starting Strength - Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift, Overhead Press, Power Clean - 20-50 pages on each, with pictures and diagrams. Best $30 you'll ever spend.

General Descriptions:
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

PL Forum Stickies:
Squat
Deadlift
Bench Press

Pendlay/JS Rows (same as the BB Row links on madcow's site):
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366601
http://www.midwestbarbell.com/totalelite/index.php?showtopic=498&view=findpost&p=9976

What people mean when they say "Needsize Abs"

Videos:
http://www.joeskopec.com/assist.html
http://www.uwlax.edu/strengthcenter/videos/video_index.htm

Olympic Lifts:
http://www.aceathlete.com/hatch/video.htm <-- look at this for the Oly squat even if you're not interested in the other Oly lifts
http://strengthtraining.asimba.com/fitness_info/muscle_group68.html

Cardio:
Tired of "regular" cardio?
Clean Cardio
Bar Complex

Other:
Grip Training
Active Recovery

Diet:
Most questions about diet can be answered in the Diet Forum.
For our purposes, the salient point is that caloric balance determines whether you gain or lose weight. Madcow finally wrote a diet article because so many people mistakenly give credit (or blame) to programs for changes in weight.
Online Bodyfat, BMR, etc. Calculator (shouldn't be treated as absolute truth, but most find that it's pretty accurate)

Further Reading:
Articles, programs, etc. to check out once you have a grasp of basic training theory (as usual, see madcow's site for that)

Article Collections:
EliteFTS
Dan John
Kelly Baggett
Strength Online Archives
Marunde-Muscle (particularly good for those interested in strongman)

Other Programs:
Joe Skopec PL Programs and Calculators (Smolov, Korte, and others - see Strength Online link above for full Korte explanation)
Eastern and Western PL Programs

"Best of the Training Board":
The War and Peace of Training threads, the original 5x5 thread. Everything you need should be on madcow's Geocities site, but it's worth a look for the discussion and Q&A about all things 5x5. - Bill Starr's 5x5
ATF Squat form will differ a bit from person to person, but in general it should look similar to this. NB BiggT's posts about the difference between Oly and PL squats and the importance of core strength. - Guinness 325x5 (video)
Discussion of the general lack of emphasis on training knowledge. - Cruising the anabolic forum with BiggT

 

[anotherbutters]

I have a few bookmarks to throw into the mix. Some of them are already linked from the 5x5 page, but they're still a good read. Include whichever you see fit.

* Glenn Pendlay on warmups
* TRAINING NEW LIFTERS - Glenn Pendlay and Mark Ripptoe
* madcow on training
* Article on different types of hypertrophy
* madcow: training benchmarks and progression over time
* Bluesman's advice for a beginner

Rather than a separate FAQ, I think it'd be better to flesh out what you have with a paragraph at the start of each section.

 

[fortunatesun]

Looking on my hardrive, I"ve found an article that may be interest. I didn't see anything similar in the HST section. It's called "Dual Factor Hypertrophy Training"- an HST program modified to accomodate dual factor theory. The problem is I don't know the author or remember where it came from. I guess I kept it in case I ever wanted to go back to bodybuilding type stuff. If you're interested I've uploaded it, but didn't include it in the reply. I wasn't sure if the entire attachment would be displayed or just the link and didn't want to bloat the thread w/off topic.

 

[Protobuilder]

CS, you're doing yeomen's work. Thanks.

Waddya' all think about building either (1) a dedicated squat sticky w/ tons of pure squat resources included . . . or (2) including said resources under a "squat" heading as part of the noob thread CS is working on?

And, yes, I know we have Arioch's write-up. It's awesome. But one article hardly covers everything, IMO.

 

[Cynical Simian]

FS, the author of the DFHT program is Matt Reynolds, and you might've come across it on madcow's site. I've tried to resist the temptation to make the sticky a carbon copy of that site, with the assumption that anyone who spends a bit of time posting/lurking on this board will give it a look anyway. I didn't include links to DFHT or the Coan/Phillipi Deadlift Rrogram under "other programs" for that reason.

AB, as already mentioned, I'm going to leave out the stuff that's already on madcow's site. The Pendlay warmup thread is great; that fills a big hole and will go under "best of...". For lack of a better place, I'll put the "types of hypertrophy" link under diet, since it'd be another helpful refutation of the simplistic "routine X is good for strength but not for mass" logic.

PB, what do you have in mind for the squat resource? So far there's Starting Strength (which I guess I'm assuming most people who're serious about training will purchase), Arioch, Hatch's site/videos, and Guinness's vid with the accompanying discussion of squat form/weaknesses. I agree that there're a lot of good squat articles out there, but there's a decent amount of information as is, even if it's a bit dispersed throughout the post.

 

[fortunatesun]

Thanks, I don't think I got it there, maybe indirectly.