A plant-based diet has gained popularity among athletes in recent years, and for good reason. Not only does it provide the body with the necessary fuel for optimal performance, but it also offers a range of health benefits
Resistance Training: A Game-Changer for Endurance Study: Eight Weeks of Heavy Strength Training Increases Hemoglobin Massand VO2peak in Well-Trained to Elite Female and Male Rowers. Lundby et al. (2024) Resistance training is often sidelined in endurance sports due
Are you looking to optimize your performance? If you’ve listened to athletes or scrolled through Instagram, you’ve probably heard that you got to pump yourself up, get mad, and go #beastmode. What if I told you, you don’t
Over eight weeks, a group of women doing only compound movements gained just as much strength as a group of women doing those same compound movements, along with additional single-joint exercises. That held true even for strength gains
Most people would expect that the best way to master a skill is to perform it perfectly, over and over again. Repetition of perfect technique ingraining and refining the motor pattern. Paradoxically, the opposite tends to be true.
We often hear people freak out because they AREN’T getting sore, thinking that their workouts were a waste. Here’s why you don’t need to be worried. – Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is the muscle ache experience
DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) is a phenomenon experienced when you perform an exercise you are not used to. We have previously mentioned that it is okay to train with DOMS, albeit that your performance will be reduced
It is probably not surprising that your attitude when approaching a challenge strongly affects your results. Sometimes expecting results will actually lead to better results than if you were not expecting any results. An example of this is
Muscles are made up of long cells known as muscle fibers, innervated by a nerve cell (neuron) which stimulates the muscle to contract. Stimulating the right type of muscle fiber can impact your physique! One nerve cell can
In most situations, you should try to apply maximum speed to the concentric portion of each rep, rather than focusing on “the mind muscle connection”. With light weight bench press (50% of 1RM), trained participants slightly increased pec
