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Progressive Overload: Why it is the Foundation
What happens when you train hard, prioritize recovery, and still hit a plateau? Sign up for a muscle-building plan based on your body type and the alignment of the stars? Or overanalyze your technique on all your lifts so you never feel like you are moving properly again. If you want to waste your time, by all means, those options will take care of that for you. The answer is actually straightforward: your program lacks one thing: progressive overload. Put more simply: progre
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5 days ago3 min read


Train First, Recover Second
Recovery is the most important part of the training process, right? Everyone says that muscle isn’t made in the gym; it is made after your workout when you are refueling and resting. Yes, fair enough. But that idea can be taken to the extreme. Recovery seems to be more of a trend right now than an actual tool. Especially with professional athletes endorsing recovery modalities they don’t use or can’t explain, if asked questions off-script about the tools. People often boast
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Nov 22 min read


Just Train Hard: Why You’re Not Growing Despite Doing Everything “Right”
So, you’ve been adhering to your favorite fitness influencer’s protocols exactly , so why aren’t you stepping on stage with Sam Sulek or Derek Lunsford? You’re doing everything "right." You’re cranking out prone single-arm cable rows with a 15-degree offset and a 3-second eccentric. You’re keeping every set three reps shy of failure, resting no longer than 90 seconds, and tracking your heart rate to stay in a precise zone. You film every rep of every set, uploading the footag
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Oct 33 min read
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