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How to design a good peak week

Training volume and frequency are currently hotly debated. For good reason, as these are fundamentally important considerations for the design of a training program. Over the last year, several studies have reported surprising and seemingly conflicting results. One study says higher training frequen…

Relative Intensity may be the missing link to your training program. Incorporate RI and build an effective program tailored to your training style.

This isn’t my typical fitness interview. James Walsham put the focus on career advice and lifestyle design and asked some deeper, big-picture questions than most interviewers dare. If you’re not sure your life’s going in the direction of your dreams, I hope these 58 minutes give you some food for th…

Bret Contreras and James Krieger recently published a great article about how people respond differently to exercise and dieting: “Individual Differences: The Most Important Consideration for Your Fitness Results that Science Doesn’t Tell You.” They showed considerable variation in how each individu…

Everything the bros told you about how to train was wrong. Ok, not everything, obviously, but quite a lot of ‘everyone knows this’ ideas turned out to be wrong. And after having lived and trained in over 50 countries, I think I know why. The origin of broscience People often ask me how they train in…