What motivates you during a workout? When you’re about to get under a bar stacked with 45s that can staple you to the ground at any second, what do you think of? Everyone has their own motivational triggers. Here are some powerful strategies to fire you up before a big lift. Go Animal Mode I’m…
The classic model of fatigue focused entirely on the body: muscle depletion, lactic acid accumulation, and declining performance. According to this outdated view, the athletes who could push through their “poisoned” muscles were the most successful. But over time, this peripheral fatigue model has been challenged. After all, muscles always have some reserve capacity. Clearly,…