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How to Train for Everything at Once
Managing intensity and fatigue is the key to a well-rounded program.
Brad Borland
3 Strategies to Dominate the Pain Cave
If you want serious performance, the pain cave has to become territory that you can dominate, not simply navigate.
Ramy Saleh
Lifting Stuff, Being Harder to Kill, and Why Burpees Save Lives
As humans, we’ve crafted our environment to make life easy. While that’s helped us get where we are today, it comes at a potential price.
Tommy Wood
Movement 101: Standards for Movement Quality
Check your movement quality every session. At the beginning and end. No, I'm not kidding.
Andrew Read
Switch Gears: A 4-Week Plan for Intermediate Cyclists
Move beyond the beginner's program and focus on the technique needed to improve your cycling performance.
Simon Kidd
The Only 4 Training Variables You Need to Plan Your Own Workouts
Programming for yourself isn’t necessarily easy, but it’s not rocket science either. Here's my advice.
Andrew Read
Find the Perfect Work-to-Rest Ratio for Your HIIT Session
When you plan your HIIT sessions, don't underestimate the importance of rest intervals. Here's what the research says.
Simon Kidd
Volume and Intensity: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Strength training veteran Charles Staley is here to answer our readers' questions about life and lifting.
Charles Staley
Westside Grappling: Applying the Conjugate Method to BJJ
The sport of BJJ flows in natural waves of volume and intensity, but there is a way to manipulate these things to maximize your training potential.
Samuel Spiegelman
Want to Be a Better Runner? Then Slow Down
The secret to being a better runner isn't more intensity. It's wise use of easy and intense training sessions.
Andrew Read
7 Ways Stress Can Harm Weightlifting Technique
In a competition, it is often the psychological stress that will defeat you, not strength.
Dresdin Archibald
How Tabata Really Works: What the Research Says
Let's look at the origins of Tabata workouts, why and how they worked, and how other intervals may work for you too.
Craig Marker
4 Secrets of Soviet Weightlifting (As Revealed by Pavel)
I was fortunate to learn from Pavel himself about the Soviet secrets of dominance and longevity. Here is what I discovered.
Craig Marker
WTF Workouts: Do You Have What It Takes to Complete Them?
These workouts will make you stronger, improve your fitness, and enhance your intestinal fortitude.
Tom Kelso
Using Intensity to Increase Strength, Power, and Endurance
Believe it or not, lesser loads have the potential to recruit a larger number of muscle fibers compared to a 1RM.
Tom Kelso
Cyclists: Science Shares How to Optimize Your Training
Take these seven science-based facts of training into account for better results from your program.
Simon Kidd
How to Adjust Sets and Reps to Fit Your Training Goal
It's time to understand the numbers. The key is to know what each is for and not to do more reps than you have to.
Dresdin Archibald
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