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Introduction Injuries can have both physical and psychological affects regardless of your training level and chosen discipline. For this reason, it is highly important that you undergo thorough examinations to understand the injury, the damage done, and if needed, the cause. That will then allow you to understand how much of the below is going […]
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Introduction Joint alignment is often overlooked, not through being deemed unimportant but usually due to the fitness industry not presenting how important it can be for both joint health but also better exercise performance. Many of you reading this will have disregarded certain exercises due to discomfort or because it perhaps hasn’t felt the way
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What is stimulus to fatigue ratio? Think of this as a hybrid between return on investment and risk to reward ratio. Stimulus to fatigue ratio can simply be seen as the amount of stimulus that target muscles receives in relation to the amount of local (muscular) fatigue and systemic (bodily) fatigue acquired. In an ideal
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Consistency, adherence and time will be the determining factors in fat loss. It will take a few weeks to get noticeable results so allow for that time. The opening 3-4 weeks may see a dramatic reduction of scale weight while everything visually looks the same. There is a snowball like effect. Once things pick up,
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Introduction Warm up sets are one of the most underutilised tools in the training arsenal for all forms of weighted exercise, however this article will delve specifically into hypertrophy training. They take additional time to perform but ensure session and set quality remains at the highest level. They function slightly differently to a traditional warm
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Introduction In the context of hypertrophy training, we are looking to provide as inefficient of an environment as possible in order to place the target tissue (muscle) under the highest levels of tension and stress. There are three main drivers of muscle growth, which are: Metabolic stress – the build-up of by-products and metabolites1 as
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Introduction The exercise set up for any movement can dictate how well that lift is performed. Ensuring a good set up can mentally prepare a lifter, especially when performing physically taxing sets and movements. Some lifters may experience what is known as pre-set anxiety, which to many, can cause feelings of self-doubt or dread towards
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Introduction to Training Intensity A variety of factors contribute towards muscle growth, from the length a muscle is exposed to down to the total amount of sets and reps; however, one factor remains at the forefront – proximity to failure. Failure is the inability for a muscle to complete a desired movement or range of
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