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Why Deloading Is Often Not Enough There's a way to resensitize your muscles and make them more responsive to growth. Here's everything you need to know. The world of resistance training is full of irony: The bigger you get to impress girls, the more you have dudes telling you, “Nice arms...

How to Program for Constant Gains Stuck in a rut? Dig yourself out with a specialization plan. Here's how to do it with any goal. Advanced lifters face a catch-22 situation: Their body is so well adapted to the type of stress provided by strength training that they require a huge amount of it...

N-Acetyl-L-tyrosine: Smart Energy You can feel jacked-up and frazzled or you can feel motivated and focused. Here's a top choice for feel-good energy. The word "energy" is used a lot in the stimulant world, but it means different things. In the category of pre-workouts, there's everything from...

The Workout Stress Test Burnout is real and it's holding you back. Here's how to identify it, prevent it, and cure it. A must-read for hardcore lifters and athletes. We’ve all been there at least once. Training is going well. You’re making gains and can’t wait to get more. You’re on a roll. Then...

by TC Luoma The 3/7 Method for Muscle Growth and Strength A scientifically proven and extremely time-efficient set/rep scheme for increasing muscle growth and strength. Check it out here. Muscle Growth, Metabolic Stress, and Mechanical Stress I’m a sucker for metabolic stress. If, after a...

Step counting and calorie tracking, step aside—there’s a new metric on the block that everyone’s obsessing over: heart rate variability (HRV). But despite its rising popularity, many of us might be misinterpreting what HRV truly represents and how it should be used. According to Marco Altini...

An unexamined life can cause as much damage as a poor diet and lack of exercise. So you’ve been reading and training hard for years now, and both your training and nutrition are dialed in. Members of the opposite sex are taking notice as your age-group peers slip into indolence and mediocrity...

Nowadays, the modern man has become a fan of fitness in the pursuit of a healthier life and a toned physique. Gyms are full, workouts are an essential routine, and diets are all the rage. Here’s the twist, though: fitness enthusiasts are on the edge of curiosity about whether working out can...

Author Rachel Goldsmith Turow The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill set? And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than...

The past few years have taken a toll on the mental health of millions around the world. Whether it’s dealing with pandemic fallout or fears of a recession, stress and anxiety seem especially high these days. With that increase in worry, individuals are searching for help. People spend millions...

What Is Rhodiola Rosea? Rhodiola rosea, also known as Golden Root or simply rhodiola, is a plant that grows in cold parts of the world, including the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. It’s known as an adaptogen, which is a substance that causes an imperceptible level of stress...

We know a lot about the physiological part of training, nutrition and recovery. You may think that if you optimize these factors you will have optimal progression and gains. People don’t often think as much about sleep, circadian rhythm, life outside the gym, and especially about stress. A...

BACTERIA THAT MAKES YOU FAT OR LEAN By now you know that your body is crawling with bugs, namely friendly and not-so-friendly gut bacteria. You have about two pounds of these critters (gut flora or microbiota) in your GI tract and they pretty much control just about every aspect of your health...

TESTICULAR FATIGUE? I spent a lot of evenings and weekends at the beach this past summer. There I espied hundreds of beautiful, nearly naked girls, many of who were candidates for future lower back problems, if you catch my drift. Now, however, I have no energy. I have mild depression and...

Oxidative stress and inflammation are putative causes of chronic diseases, especially "new-age" conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and various forms of cancer [1]. While they are problematic if left unmitigated...

Rhodiola rosea L., also known as golden root, arctic root, and roseroot, is a flowering plant species commonly found in colder climates and mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. The plant grows nearly three feet tall and produces yellow flowers with a rose-like fragrance. Rhodiola rosea...

If you're trying to lose fat, high quality sleep is essential. Regular sleep loss depresses the immune system. Even as little as one week of inadequate sleep disrupts blood sugar to the level of a prediabetic. The effects of stress and cortisol disruption often manifest as difficulty in falling...

How many of these sound like you? At least once a week... I eat a very large amount of food, to the point of feeling discomfort. It's like I can't stop once I start. I inhale this food quickly. Sometimes I take another bite before I'm finished chewing the previous mouthful. I often feel...

We often hear conflicting evidence about whether we should train through an illness with suggestions made from various people to either butch up and fight through it, using preworkout supplements to drive your training performance, or to avoid any activity unless 100% fit and healthy. Rather...

If you're like me, you were pretty chill when you were younger. You didn't party much, you stayed to yourself, and you pretty much had no idea what you wanted to do. Now that your 30s are here, the stress and anxiety of life are starting to zap the energy from us. A new poll reveals that men...