A deload is a period of time — typically one training week but can be as short as 3-4 days — in which the goal is to reduce systemic and local fatigue through reductions in volume, intensity and/or relative load. Deloads are implemented after the culmination of a hard mesocycle

Though I’m not the biggest fan of traditional static stretching when it comes to actually improving the qualities that we’re concerned with (namely, safely achieving deep ROMs), there is one kind of stretching that is a cut above the rest… Loaded Stretches If the name didn’t give it away, loaded

There is plenty of evidence to support the idea that chronic sleep deprivation is one of the worst things we can do to ourselves if we expect to be able to train hard and recover from that hard training. Tons of essential processes happen while we sleep — including hormone