TRAINING

By Tim Rigby (copyright IFM Media)

Many fitness athletes, even at an advanced level, are unfamiliar with the DeLorme and Oxford Methods of training.  These two programs are referred to as progressive resistance exercises (PREs) as the amount of weight used changes within sets, but the number of repetitions per set remains the same.  In both cases specifically, sets of 10 reps are performed.  Over the last few decades, each mode has been examined scrupulously and the results have shown consistently that both are effective for increases in strength, though research does show one is slightly more effective than the other. We’ll get to that shortly.