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Growing Older Is Inevitable. Growing Weaker Doesn’t Have to Be.
Growing older is inevitable, but growing weaker doesn’t have to be. Discover how strength training preserves muscle and bone, reduces fall risk, and protects your independence for decades to come.
The Not-So-Famous DeLorme Scheme
The famous 3×10 scheme has a deeper history than most lifters realize. Revisiting DeLorme’s original work reveals a heavier, higher-volume approach to progressive resistance training.
Focus on the Cause of Disease
Symptoms get the attention, but lifestyle often deserves a harder look. This health piece argues for addressing root causes through training, nutrition, sleep, sunlight, and better daily habits.
Looking Forward to Another Exciting and Productive Year
A year-end note to readers celebrates growth, support, and nearly 100 posts of training content. It sets the tone for another productive year of education, experimentation, and no-nonsense fitness.
Shower Less for More Vitamin D
Sun exposure, skin oils, and vitamin D production make for a controversial hygiene discussion. This piece challenges daily soap-and-shower habits through the lens of muscle, immunity, and sunlight.
Do You Need to Use Viagra After a Workout?
Training should stimulate the body, not leave it hormonally flattened. This provocative piece looks at libido, overtraining signs, and why post-workout depletion can reveal more than soreness.
How to Wait Lift for Maximum Results
Tempo can turn a familiar routine into a completely different stimulus. This piece explains how strict lowering, controlled reps, and smart rest periods can drive serious hypertrophy results.
The Problem and Solution to Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity is not solved by lectures alone. This post points to two blunt priorities: move more and clean up daily eating habits.
Meat and Nuts Breakfast for Kids
The meat-and-nuts breakfast can be adapted for kids without turning the morning into a battle. Eggs, bacon, burgers, sausage, and nuts make the concept more realistic at home.
Our Top 10 Articles of 2016
A greatest-hits list from 2016 pulls together the site’s most popular training, nutrition, recovery, and coaching pieces. It is a quick way to catch up on what readers kept coming back to.
Keeping Up with Current Research (November 2016)
Eggs, calorie restriction, eccentric training, and nutrition all show up in this research roundup. The useful question is not what a study says in isolation, but how a coach applies it.
Weight Gain Program
Hardgainers need more than a random bulking routine. This Q&A covers calorie intake, meal frequency, liquid nutrition, and training considerations for clients trying to add quality size.
Females, Chains, and Wave Loading
Heavy lifting does not have to mean reckless lifting. Chains and wave loading can help female trainees build serious strength while managing sticking points and confidence under the bar.
Front Squats with Chains
Chains change the loading curve and add a serious twist to front squats. This clip shows wave loading and accommodating resistance in action.
Unilateral Training: Which Side First?
Starting every unilateral exercise with the weak side is common advice, but it is not the only option. Testing both approaches can reveal whether weakness or nervous-system potentiation matters more.
The Hanging Bat Crunch
Basic crunches not cutting it anymore? The hanging bat crunch turns abdominal training upside down with a far more demanding core challenge.
Should You Train When You're Sick?
Feeling sick does not always mean the same training decision. The neck rule offers a simple way to judge when to scale volume, when to rest, and when to stay out of the gym.
The Most Important Variable for Muscle Hypertrophy
Volume, intensity, and frequency matter, but effort may be the variable that decides whether a set actually builds muscle. Here’s why training close to failure still deserves respect.
Get More From Weights Than Aerobics
Cardio is often sold as the default path to fat loss, but strength training brings a bigger long-term argument: muscle, metabolism, bone, posture, and performance.
Pre-Workout Stimulants
Pre-workout stimulants can make you feel unstoppable—until the borrowed energy bill comes due. This piece warns against leaning too hard on stimulants instead of respecting recovery and periodization.
Strength Training Motivation
Heavy sets are not won by polite thoughts alone. This piece dives into the mental images, aggression, and internal scripts that can help a lifter attack serious weight.