Clearly, there are reasons why women would be averse to training their pecs. And I am sympathetic to the societal pressures that impart many of the misunderstood viewpoints that have been allowed to fester. But effective chest training doesn’t have to involve hyper-masculinization. Or pecs bulging out of your turtleneck.

Hypertrophy– The process of muscle growth (closely related to the concept of anabolism). Atrophy– The process of muscle loss/breakdown (closely related to the concept of catabolism). Repetition (Rep) – One complete cycle of a full range-of-motion, from starting-point to end-point and then back to the start. Set – A grouping of reps, typically inferred as being

The previous (and upcoming) principles described in this article center around ways to improve the quantity and quality of output. For fatigue management, we want to focus more on maintaining the systems that allow those improvements in output to come to fruition. Effective use of this principle incorporates both planned