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Conversations that matter in fitness. The debates worth having, examined with evidence and without heat.
What Are Peptides?
Insulin is a peptide. So is the vial a stranger is selling you on a forum. Learning to tell those two apart is the entire skill.
6 min readYoga and Pilates
Somebody finally put yoga up against two other kinds of exercise for back pain, head to head. All three worked about the same, and that answer is more useful than a winner would have been.
5 min readProtein Maxing
I do not eat meat, fish or eggs, and I never once counted my protein. My body grew anyway. Here is what was actually doing the work.
12 min readStrong Legs and Longevity
Doctors can tell a surprising amount about your future from the thickness of your thigh. Here is why the legs, and not the grip strength everyone likes to measure.
6 min readMuscles and the Brain
Lifting is supposed to protect your brain. Half of that claim comes from trials in people and half comes from mice, and almost nobody tells you which half they are quoting.
6 min readWhy Frequency Matters
Cramming your whole week of exercise into the weekend feels like cheating. Researchers strapped accelerometers to a hundred thousand people to find out whether it is.
6 min readThe Power of Active Resting
A rest day spent completely still is not the same thing as recovery. The research pulls those two apart, and the difference is worth knowing.
7 min readWhy Muscles Matter
Muscle is not decoration sitting on top of your health. In the big population studies it behaves like an organ that predicts how the rest of you is doing.
7 min readWhat Is Lifestyle Medicine?
Some countries now write exercise into clinical guidelines the way they write drugs. Not a wellness trend, an actual medical discipline.
7 min readLess Scrolling, More Movement
Four words are printed on the first screen of our app. This is the long argument behind them, written by both of us, including the parts that complicate it.
13 min readTraining with Other People
Training alone is fine until the week you do not feel like it. Somebody tested what happens when the only thing you add to a programme is other people.
5 min readSleep Is Half the Programme
They kept lifters awake all night, then put them under a loaded bar the next day. What broke first was not what most people expect.
6 min readSoreness Is Not the Scoreboard
You judge the session by how wrecked you feel afterwards. Thirty trials suggest that feeling is telling you almost nothing about what you built.
5 min readConsistency Beats Intensity
Whether you played sport as a teenager still shows up in how much you move in your forties. The timescale that decides this is far longer than a training block.
5 min readThe Comparison Trap
You scroll past someone in better shape and feel worse. It turns out one thing predicts who that actually damages, and it is not the photos.
4 min readGym Anxiety
If walking into a gym makes you feel watched, you are not imagining it and you are not unusual. There is now a proper scale for measuring it.
4 min readRest Days Are Not Weakness
In rehab, where every session is planned and monitored, researchers noticed something missing: nobody was scheduling the easy weeks. Most training plans have the same hole.
4 min readWhy You Quit in Week Three
Nearly half the people who join a supervised programme are gone within a year. Quitting turns out to be predictable, which means it is also preventable.
5 min readWhy Programs Fail
You have swapped training plans three times this year. That habit, not your effort, is where the results are leaking out.
4 min readDiscipline vs Motivation
Motivation clips are everywhere and they are not what puts muscle on your frame. Showing up when you feel nothing is the part that works.
6 min readBest Biceps Exercises
Your biceps is not one lump of muscle. It has two heads that do slightly different jobs, and that changes how you should train it.
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