A deload week is a planned period of time (typically a week) during which you reduce the intensity or volume of your workouts and focus on active recovery and lower-intensity workouts instead. Lower ...

When you find a consistent fitness schedule, it can be difficult to take a break for fears it will turn into a full stop. You may also worry you’ll lose the gains you have already built. However, ...

You’ve been crushing your health and fitness goals recently: Eating protein at every meal, getting seven to nine hours of sleep, and hitting the heavy weights at the gym. But in the past few days, you ...

Working hard in the gym without seeing results? A short rest may help you break that plateau, according to a doctor who set state and national records in powerlifting. Dr. Shernan Holtan, a ...

Pushing your body consistently is one of the foundations of effective fitness and athletic training. However, constant high-intensity workouts without planned recovery often lead to burnout, plateaus, ...

We've all been there: we've been in the gym for months and want to know how to build muscle, but we feel stagnant and we don't break our personal records. If this is the case for you, maybe you should ...

A paradox of good habits is that a break is sometimes exactly what's needed to sustain them. Elite sportspeople know this. We can borrow strategies from athletes to, like them, perform at a higher ...