Many people getting into fitness look to elite athletes or coaches for training ideas and inspiration. Whether it’s admiring a successful football player or marathoner, the desire to train like one is ...

Periodized training is structuring your training for a goal race so that on race day you’re at optimal fitness for the demands of that race. As you’ll see below, periodized training often consists of ...

POV: You started working out a few months ago, and you've been consistently hitting the same reps of the same movements. You have a goal of reaching a deadlift PR in a few months, and while you do ...

Whether you're building your own training plan or following a pre-set training plan, it's important to understand that workouts don't just happen arbitrarily. Instead, they should progress in volume, ...

When training for a single performance or even several competitive events, such as games or matches during a sport season, you should plan carefully to reach peak performance at the right time and to ...

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In the continual quest for gains, coaches and athletes are now looking at “carbohydrate periodization” as an avenue to performance gains, so let’s learn a bit more about this concept… “Periodization” ...

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