Never be afraid of lifting weights as a woman or man who is currently out of shape, less fit, obese, or if you simply are a person with some excess fat to lose.
When you change your food habits in order to achieve a healthy amount of fat loss you will also lose some lean mass, including skeletal muscle mass, bone mass and organ mass. Welcome to a new article and study.
We are living in a fact-free world where a ton of people tragically assume that as they grow old there is absolutely nothing they can do to maintain better health, and fitness, mobility and body composition relative to their sedentary peers.
This is not true, habits dictate how you age, dive right in and find out how you can enjoy a healthier second half of your life.
Today we we will take a look at over 150,000 completed marathons from 120,000 runners, so there´s no lack of data points in this article.
All data was from the final 16 weeks preceding the 151,813 marathons that were completed successfully by 119,452 runners.
Intervals are far more demanding than steady-state exercise. But, read on for the why and take that knowledge with you as you program smarter fitness plans.
The human body will use way more energy moving into a higher level of physical effort than it does once a steady state has been achieved.
This is how you train older clients for vastly better results and health.
In these studies, we see that roughly 12 sets in total per week of resistance training across two separate gym days track incredibly well.
Read on to uncover the secrets of successful strength training for the elderly. Load, rep range, rest and exercise choices, and why that is.
Welcome to another Strength By Fitness article, today today we will talk about the crossroad of body mass, muscle fibers, strength, speed, agility and explosive power and how its all connected.
In short, this article will explore how you should train to become stronger, faster, and more explosive as an athlete and person.
This comes into play when your total mass is already too big for your relative strength to successfully power even faster, and more explosive movement.
Coach Mike, Strength By Fitness
The agonist-antagonist super set is capable of cutting your workout time in half without falling too far behind the strength progression of a traditional workout plan. But, you can also make use of the way I do, which allows you to cram more high quality workout volume and sessions per week into the same gym time envelope of your regular workouts, without compromising on progression at all.
What happens if you lift weights and either consume protein following the RDA or use a high-protein plan with 1.6 grams per kilo of body weight and day for omnivores ( 1.8 for plant-based ). Double the progression is the answer.