What people think of as plateaus are more often the result of unrealistic expectations of never-ending, linear progress. There may be times when your performance or physical appearance seems to change rapidly, but by-and-large, gaining strength is a long-term process. And growing new muscle tissue is even slower. Fat loss

We now understand that our bodies do not necessarily treat physical stressors (i.e. weight training) that differently from emotional and psychological stressors (i.e. getting fired from your job or broken up with by your significant other) — a lot of the physiological responses to seemingly unique stressors are actually the

WHAT IS IT? The eccentric portion of a rep refers to the the phase in which the working muscle is being lengthened under load. Due to physiological mechanisms, we can handle more force during this phase than we can actively produce during the concentric. Specifically tailoring training to take advantage