Returning to Training After a Break
Time away from the gym can be a frustrating experience, especially when forced. And as difficult as it is, returning to training after a break needs to be met with …
Bins and Needles, and Light Weights for Fat Loss
Sitting high on the pile of fitness myths that won’t die is the following: High reps burn more fat and you should train with light weights for fat loss. Proponents …
Strike First and Strike Hard
Yesterday we talked about the conservation of variation concept. Continuing on, we’ll go over some quick and easy ways to avoid unnecessary variation that can stall training progress. Specifically, we’ll …
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 …
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 …