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Enter the Nerve and Muscle Matrix If you've spent most of your lifting career doing 3 sets of 10 reps, do the opposite and you'll see astounding new gains. Here's why and how to program it. Who's In Control? One question addressed by physiologists is whether nerve controlled muscle, or muscle...

Enter the Nerve and Muscle Matrix If you've spent most of your lifting career doing 3 sets of 10 reps, do the opposite and you'll see astounding new gains. Here's why and how to program it. Who's In Control? One question addressed by physiologists is whether nerve controlled muscle, or muscle...

Strength is a seductive temptress and I have no shame in proclaiming my love for her. But like anything in life that gets your juices flowing, to truly understand strength you must consider both the stuff you like and the stuff you don't like. Here are 6 very interesting things about strength...

Way back in 1995 or so, a fresh-faced Canadian strength coach named Charles Poliquin, wearing the native moose fur and antler hat that is emblematic of his countrymen, gave me an article (written on maple leaves) about something called "German Volume Training." I cast aside my initial...

WHO'S IN CONTROL? One question addressed by physiologists is whether nerve controlled muscle, or muscle controlled nerve. Researchers sought to find the answer in 1960. The scientists pulled a nerve out of fast muscle (flexor digitorum longus) and stuck it into a slow muscle (soleus); a process...

BLOOD TEST REFERENCE RANGE CHART Test Reference Range (conventional units*) 17 Hydroxyprogesterone (Men) 0.06-3.0 mg/L 17 Hydroxyprogesterone (Women) Follicular phase 0.2-1.0 mg/L 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) 8-80 ng/mL Acetoacetate <3 mg/dL Acidity (pH) 7.35 - 7.45 Alcohol 0 mg/dL (more than...