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Foundational Series: Over-Training & Under-Recovery

Q. Should I Use a Deload Week at the End of Each Training Cycle? The concept of ‘deloading’ finds its way into many lifters’ training programs far too early in their careers. Deloading typically refers to any time within a training cycle where there is a sizeable cutback in volume, load, intensity, or variable otherwise, …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 81

Before we get up-and-running with this week’s Featured Content from around the web, I want to remind you about Expedition 118. Expedition 118 is a new project, organized by Ruthless Performance to break a world-record, while raising $500,000 for cleaner oceans and waterways. WE NEED YOUR HELP GETTING THIS OFF THE GROUND. Currently, we have …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 80

Welcome to this week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content. As a regular reader of this series, you’re setting yourself apart by going above-and-beyond in your search for new material in fitness and sports performance from the industry’s leading experts. You can peruse last week’s installment here. But before we get to this week’s featured content, …

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Science-Based Strategies to Maximize Mental & Physical Performance – Installment 1

This series is going to explore various elements of performance, primarily from a physical and mental perspective. The reality is, however, that physical and mental performance are tightly interwoven; as one improves so does the other. This notion makes most of these concepts interchangeable between benefits to both mind and body.                Beyond the categories …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 79

Before we dive into this week’s featured content, you may be interested in viewing the last installment, which can be found here. Regarding this week’s content, we have a few housekeeping items to cover… First, the Coal Region Campfire episode with Coach Ned Hampford is a few months old, breaking with our tradition of posting …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 77

Welcome to our weekly edition of Featured Fitness Content. Today’s content covers various aspects of health from Covid to Breast Milk, and Probiotics to Altitude Sickness; think of today’s installment more as a choose-your-own-adventure story. During the release of last week’s installment, no. 76, I was bow hunting Mule Deer in the Frank Church Wilderness …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 76

We have lots of content to cover this week, from Ketogenic Diets to sleep routines of the ultra-successful, and aging to asthma. But first, you might want to take a look at last week’s Featured Content. You can do so here. At the time of this publication, I’ll be bow hunting Idaho’s Frank Church–River of …

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