Studies Show, You Don’t Grow In Your Comfort Zone Yale just performed a study that may indicate something about our brains that we’ve known about our muscles all along; that we need change, and sometimes discomfort, in order to grow. No progress can be made in your comfort zone. A new study by Yale that was…
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Sliding Filament Theory – Why You’re Stronger Lowering a Weight Than Lifting It It’s easy to instinctually understand that lowering a weight is easier than lifting it–but why? You might assume that it’s because “gravity is helping you”, but that’s not accurate–gravity is actually the force pulling against your contraction when you lift or lower the…
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Negative Only Reps – An Advanced Training Technique As we talked about in our post on advanced training techniques, you might find yourself wanting to increase the intensity of your workouts to get over a growth plateau. However, you can’t increase your weight stack forever as you approach your biological maximum potential, and you shouldn’t necessarily…
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Forget New Year’s Resolutions, Try a S.M.A.R.T. Goal You should feel energized and optimistic in the new year, not uneasy with the anticipation of guilt and shame. That’s why we encourage you to ditch the resolution, and embrace a SMART goal. SMART is an acronym that represents a much better (and healthier) approach to self…
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