THE MYTHS OF 'WARRIOR' TRAINING: GREAT ADVICE

[Deserter]

This is a great article worth sharing by one of the leading strength and conditioning trainers in MMA. Needless to say it's most directly relevant to that discipline, but there's a lot of good general stuff in there that can help anyone in their approach to training:

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_art ... r_training

The way Rooney focuses on people who over-train is really important as so many people still believe that the more you do, the better it is, which is a false premise.
Tim Ferriss describes it really well in "The Four-hour Body", when he uses the analogy of boiling water - once you've got it to 100 degrees, you've achieved the desired effect and therefore spending time continuing to boil it up to 120 degrees, 150 degrees etc, is pointless and a waste of additional time. By the same token, Ferriss is saying that in your training you can frequently achieve the right results without massive time in the gym, or knocking out sets till you're utterly fatigued - in fact this can be counter-productive and make you more susceptible to injury.
Still train hard, but train smart!

[TempleSlave]