muscles
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You Don’t Need To Lift Heavy Weights To Build Muscle
We’ve gone over this before in our post on low and high-rep training, but it bears repeating: Whether you lift light or ultra-heavy weights, your muscles can still grow, provided you push yourself to the point of being unable to physically lift an additional rep. In the end, it’s all about intensity.
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Thor ‘The Mountain’ Björnsson’s Top Five Power-Training Tips For Beginners
Thor “The Mountain” Björnsson is an Icelandic professional strong man and actor best known for popping people’s heads like grapefruits on the TV series Game Of Thrones. Björnsson was recently in Sydney to promote Sodastream and raise awareness about plastic bottle pollution in Australia. We asked Björnsson to share his top five power-training tips for…
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Does It Matter How Many Reps You Do When You Work Out?
So, your workout has you doing 4 sets of 5 reps for this exercise, 3 sets of 8 after that, and — oh, thank goodness — only 2 sets of 50 to finish it out. Well, hey, the good news is that these rep numbers aren’t just based on a sadistic desire to see you…