Have you ever noticed how your muscles look larger and more defined after a resistance workout? Why does this happen? This article discusses this phenomenon and what distinguishes it from true muscle hypertrophy.
Are your fitness goals conflicting? Are you unknowingly making it harder to meet your goals by the type of exercise you’re doing? If you’re trying to build lean body mass, doing extra long periods of steady-state cardio may be sending the wrong signals to your muscles and making it difficult for them to grow. Find out why.
This article discusses what causes a strength training plateau and how to make changes that will restart the growth process.
Find out why some people are exercise non-responders and why some forms of exercise may be better for some people than others.
Have you reached a strength plateau? If so, it’s time to add some variety to your weight training routine. Here are five ways to do it.
Are you training to build muscle strength or muscle endurance? There are two ways you can train muscles and each will give you a different result
You already know and can feel the benefits of exercise while you’re doing it, but can it have benefits many years later even after you stop?
You’ve just started strength training, and you’re eager to see those first ripples of muscle. How long does it really take to start seeing gains?
Find out what research shows about strength training gains and the number of sets you need to maximize strength-building.
Find out more about what happens when you take a long break from exercise and how you can still maintain some of your fitness.
Back on July 12, 2008 I decided that I wanted to lose 50lbs so I started dieting after 12 years of being overweight. By October 2008 I had lost a total of 31lbs and started getting worried because the skin on my body had started to droop. I wasn’t happy with how I looked naked
Prior to STS, I had been doing weight workouts at my local gym a few times a week, with limited success. I was frustrated as I had been working out – a combo of 3-4 weight workouts (45 mins – 1 hr) plus 3-4 cardio workouts a week (Cathe DVDs, mainly) – yet only feeling
