Mindfulness ✪

To be conscious or aware of something

Is your routine building your past or maintaining your past?

Mentionable ✪

Refer to something briefly without going into detail. Important or noteworthy, memorable

Keep in mind: programming strength, hypertrophy, power, and muscular endurance phases typically primarily applies for main lifts, not auxiliary/accessory exercises.

Main lifts are multi joint movements. Main examples include the squat, deadlift, bench press, pull up/chin up.

Your auxiliary exercises are typically accessory exercises that are single joint should usually be limited to a load of your 8 rep max or lighter Examples of auxiliary exercises include bicep curl or calf raises.

Why: Most athletic and sport movement require complex, compound, multijoint movements. Even though we may not squat in a game, we use those same movements in a jump and by improving our squat we can improve how high, far, quick, and powerfully we can jump.

You can still train auxiliary lifts for strength, power, hypertrophy, and muscular endurance - but since the accessory exercises typically aren’t compound exercises requiring multiple areas of your body to contribute we don’t need to excessively load only 1 muscle/joint. Furthermore, those muscles/joints may not be able to handle those loads so we need to train wisely and appropriately to avoid injury. Especially for a novice athlete.

Motivation ✪

Meant to inspire: being mentally stimulated to do or feel something

"The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline." — Paulo Coelho