Benefits of Foam Rolling According to NEW Research
If you’ve been here a while, you know I’ve railed against foam rolling. Not the tool or its uses but rather, over-reliance of it. Which is often the result of the benefits …
Is Skipping Breakfast Bad For You?
Skipping breakfast can be useful when you’re trying to lose a little weight. It works by providing an easy way to create a small caloric deficit. But, there can often …
Psychological Stress and Injury Restriction
We’ve been yammering on about how to come back to the gym when the dust settles. But today I want to talk about the other side of that coin. Namely, …
When Best To Fail
Here’s an interesting follow-up to last weeks post on training to failure. So far we’ve covered sets to fail versus proximity from failure and what that means for fatigue. What …
Training To Failure Is Training To Fail
Fresh out of the lab, we have a new study comparing the effects of strength training to failure or without failure on trained participants. The aim of this study was to …
Resting Between Sets, What Do We Know?
I’m often asked how long we should rest between sets and as always, the answer isn’t exactly black and white. Fortunately, there is a lot of research in this area …
Shots Fired
I’m often asked about what can be done to speed up recovery. More often than not I find myself responding with… ”Recovery from what?” Because we also need to know what …
Every Corpse on Everest
”You look tired.” Said my client Sue straightfaced as they come. And you know you’re looking several shades of ruin when it’s the first thing someone says to you. I …
The Quality of Your Relationships
When you look at the happiness, well-being and quality of life studies done, there is one common link among the people who lived a happy, fulfilling life. The common denominator among them was …
Squats, Muscle Damage and Recovery
Some closing thoughts on Monday’s post for you where we talked about squats, muscle damage and recovery. The time curve of voluntary muscle activation recovery following a workout and muscle soreness …
How To Ruin Your Monday
As far as I can tell, in gyms all over the world, Monday remains the unofficial international bench press day. Where the first and freshest day of the week (for …
Does Foam Rolling Work, and What Does it Do?
For all the hype around foam-rolling these days, it may be surprising to know that we still don’t know for certain what’s happening when we do it. The underlying mechanisms are …
It’s Official: Work-Place Burnout is a Thing
In the news, work-place burnout has just become recognised officially as a mental health concern by The World Health Organisation (WHO). It now has an ICD-11 code, which is a diagnostic …