Diminishing Returns
Another interesting thing that I picked up at Steve Maxwell’s recent Fundamentals of Human Movement certification course (December 2012), was the concept of diminishing returns in exercise programming. More specifically, Steve referred to a physical standards test developed to assess the capacities of candidates for Russian Special Operations fighters (spetznaz), developed by Anatoly Taras. This list of 10 exercises contains an entry level ‘pass’ score, then a secondary number of repetitions for the same exercise for which he felt there ...Read More
