If you train hard, you are going to get some tweaks. Sore lower backs and strained muscle tissues are inevitable. Usually, these tweaks are nothing to worry about, and you should continue working out like normal. Eventually, though, we are all confronted with something more significant than a tweak. It can be tendinopathy, bursitis, sprained […]
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Pain is a tricky feedback loop. From birth, we are taught that it’s a bad thing, a threat to our homeostasis, and if we feel anything painful, we should stop doing the pain-causing behavior to keep surviving. However, sometimes pain is a good thing. For instance, if you are looking to improve your strength, the
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Why Sit-Ups Won’t Give You a Six-Pack By Coach Johnny B It’s one of the most stubborn exercise myths out there that doing thousands of sit-ups is the way to get a six-pack. In truth, six-packs are made in the kitchen, not the gym, and smashing out countless sit-ups is more likely to result in a
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Wave loading is a progressive rep and intensity scheme that has a lifter perform a series of sets with increasingly more weight and less reps per wave, followed by 1-2 more waves, each starting slightly higher in weight and running through the same rep scheme. For example, a common wave loading plans may have a
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