I once declared that the idea of going for a swim is about as appealing as licking the foot of a medieval peasant. And there were plenty of reasons why. I didn’t like the idea of swimming through all the chemicals and gunk that ends up in a swimming pool… busy swimming pools are like […]
Training to Failure: Does It Help or Hurt Muscle Growth?
How does training to failure affect your ability to build muscle? Does it speed it up, slow it down, or make no difference at all? One of the latest studies to ask that question comes from researchers based at Brazil’s University of São Paolo. They rounded up a group of men, and got them to […]
Ex-SAS Commander Reveals the Hidden Weakness That All Men Have
“Some psychologists say that men are particularly prone to this tendency of being attracted to the new, unusual, noisy and shiny over the less showy, perhaps more routine matters. It can catch us out, for novelty and glitter are no true measures of importance, actual or relative.”– Cedric Delves, Across an Angry Sea: The SAS […]
This Is How Often You Should Train to Maximize Muscle Growth
In the past few years, there’s been a lot of interest in high frequency training programs, which involve working each muscle group 4, 5 or even 6 days a week. The idea is that exposing your muscles to a stimulus more often will cause them to adapt more quickly, leading to better, faster results. This […]
How the Bad Boy of Metabolism Pulled off a Rocky-style Comeback
Back in the day, lactic acid was seen very much as the bad boy of metabolism – a pointless waste product that was blamed for everything from muscle fatigue during exercise to cramp to delayed-onset muscle soreness.
The Least Amount of Training You Can Get Away with and Still Make Gains
Most advice on getting in shape centers around the “best way” to do this or the “fastest way” to do that.