Strength training articles to help you move better
If you want to live a healthy lifestyle and train, I think it’s really important to have a general understanding of how muscles work. I don’t mean memorizing textbooks of muscle names and functions – I mean, how do muscles work in general? What is a muscle made of, and when I contract it, what […]
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Block Periodization is becoming more popular in programming for endurance athletes. It refers to the sequencing of specialized blocks of mesocycles* directed at developing a particular aspect of fitness or performance. Macrocycle: refers to a full season of training, typically 1 year. Mesocycle: refers to blocks of training within the macrocycle, usually weeks of months.
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There is a clear relation between what you are thinking and what you are doing – your mental-self influences your physical-self and vice versa; your psyche influences your physiology and vice versa. Here’s a little story… You’re playing golf and you walk up to your ball to make a long put. You ask your friends
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Effective training is a careful balancing act over the long haul. A balance of training and recovering, to maximize performance and avoid overtraining or undertraining. We have to remember that each workout is weighted differently, and the point of “balance” is always changing. How do you train hard without overtraining? How do you recover without
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If you’ve been around “older” people, you’ve likely heard things like “getting old sucks” or “it’s just part of being old” when they discuss their aches and pains. As living organisms, we naturally degrade over time – we grow old, our skin loses elasticity, our muscles degrade, our joints wear down, etc. We call this
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“Your recovery time should be proportional to your training intensity level.” In the strength and conditioning world, it has been long understood that the warm-up and cool down is essential for optimal performance and recovery. In the athletic world, you will quickly realize that warm-ups and cool-downs all look different. Some people warm-up for 5
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Is your body ready for Stage 3? Here in Toronto, we are all expecting the re-opening of gyms and fitness facilities very soon. After several months at home and away from our regular fitness routine, we have been forced to either sink or swim – stop our fitness routine or adapt our fitness routine. For
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