Q: I've been powerlifting for three years, and I've seen new powerlifting programs popping up faster than pills at a Charlie Sheen party. How do I know if one will be effective for me?
"If you break the law, you get thrown in jail," my mentor, close friend, and world champion powerlifter, the late Fred Hatfield, Ph.D., once screamed at a young powerlifter at a seminar we gave in Iwakuni, Japan.
Fred was referring to what he called the Seven Granddaddy Laws for scrutinizing the design of a training program. He had come up with these laws through decades of research and application and to him, an optimal training program meant that you had to obey all seven. Short of that, the more laws you obeyed, the more effective your training program would be.
Fred didn't take kindly to those who broke the laws. The more you broke, he believed, the longer you sentenced yourself to a self-imposed prison of poor gains.
As with so many other things that had to do with strength training, Fred...
Source: Ask The Super Strong Guy: How Do You Know If A Program Will Be Effective?
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