Find the article that answers your question.
Each piece is organized by topic, scoped up front, and written as a reference — not a summary. Start with what you need to know.
Core concepts that underpin every advanced topic. Read these before anything else — they define the vocabulary used throughout.
Organized so you land, not browse.
Step-level breakdowns of specific procedures. Each article isolates one method, shows the reasoning, and identifies where practitioners go wrong.
Specifications, benchmarks, and authoritative standards. Written to be consulted repeatedly, not read once and filed.
How Training Load Accumulates
Adaptation vs. Fatigue: A Working Model
Specificity: What It Actually Means
A precise account of how volume, intensity, and frequency interact — and why misreading any one variable undermines the whole program.
Corrects the most common misapplication of training specificity and shows how the principle is tested against real outcomes.
Distinguishes productive stress from accumulated fatigue using measurable markers, not intuition.
Programming a Deload Week Correctly
Diagnosing a Stalled Progress Curve
Intensity Benchmarks by Training Age
Covers the variables that actually require reduction, the ones that don't, and how to verify the deload worked before resuming.
A diagnostic sequence for identifying whether a plateau is a programming error, a recovery deficit, or a measurement problem.
Tabulated reference ranges for relative intensity at each stage of development, with the evidence base and known limitations noted.
These are reference pieces. Read them that way.
If you want to understand who wrote them and why the approach is structured this way, the background is one page over.