volume

High or minimal volume: What's best practice?

Factor in fatigue when calculating your starting weight for a strength program.

Society's obsession with work ethic is destroying the efficacy of your training.

Capitalize on your off-season to lay the groundwork for a great season ahead.

Supersets don't have to blast the nervous system. They should be used to challenge stability and coax your best performance.

This week, Charles answers our reader's questions about leg size, testosterone replacement therapy, and lifting for hypertrophy.

Narrowing your training focus and mastering a single movement can lead to big progress.

Programming for yourself isn’t necessarily easy, but it’s not rocket science either. Here's my advice.

Strength training veteran Charles Staley is here to answer our readers' questions about life and lifting.

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.

I was fortunate to learn from Pavel himself about the Soviet secrets of dominance and longevity. Here is what I discovered.

You can save yourself years of pain by accepting that the rules of biology apply to you, and that education is your best friend.

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.

You have to do a certain amount of every lift to ensure strength and skill development. But how do you know which is weakest and how to adapt your training?

Many believe more is better, and so fail to experience what true, all-out effort entails when strength training.

You’ll be amazed at the difference this approach can make. You’ll be strong, fit, and recover from hard sessions almost instantly.

When repetitive stress is combined with poor stability, mobility, or movement patterns, then athletes are likely to breakdown.

Everyone knows typical gym training begins with three sets of ten. But what happens when you do ten sets of three? Give it a try for six weeks and see how fast you grow in size and strength.