Modern exercise culture has spent years glorifying exhaustion. The harder a workout feels, the more effective people assume ...

Understand the science of lifting versus lowering to optimize your training and break through your next plateau.

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I'm all for trying the latest and greatest trendy workouts. But part of building a fun fitness routine that *also* delivers major results includes going back to basics. I'm talking basics—as in, ...

Eccentric exercise focuses on movements, or phases of a movement, that lengthen the muscles. Some examples of eccentric exercise include lowering into a squat or lowering into a press-up. In contrast, ...