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Nutrition for Strength: Calories, Protein, and the Rest You Can Ignore
Strength nutrition is mostly calories and protein. What the research says about the two numbers that matter and the details most lifters spend too much time on.
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recovery
9 articles
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Sleep and Recovery for Lifters: The Single Biggest Free Variable
Sleep is the biggest free variable in strength training. What 7 vs. 9 hours does to your squat, and why sleep fixes problems food and deloads cannot.
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Training for Older Lifters: What Changes at 40, 50, and Beyond
Older lifters need fewer heavy singles and more attention to recovery. What adjusts with age and what stays the same across 40+ training.
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Travel Training: Keeping Strength on the Road
Travel weeks do not have to mean lost progress. A framework for hotel gyms, conference weeks, and the trips where lifting takes a back seat.
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Training Around Life Stress: How Non-Training Load Affects Recovery
Work, sleep loss, and life stress reduce recovery capacity in measurable ways. How to autoregulate training when everything outside the gym is hard.
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Sleep Science for Lifters: A Research Deep Dive
What the peer-reviewed sleep literature shows about strength, recovery, and training. The mechanisms and the specific effect sizes on lifters.
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How to Deload: Planned, Reactive, and Taper Frameworks
Most lifters either never deload or do it by accident. Three frameworks for deloading on purpose, and when to use each.
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Mobility for Lifters: What to Train, What to Skip, What Actually Matters
Most lifters do no mobility work, or too much of the wrong kind. A minimal framework for what actually shows up in your squat, bench, and deadlift.
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Training Through Injury: When to Push, When to Pivot, When to Stop
Most training injuries do not require time off — they require changed loading. A framework for what to modify, what to substitute, and what to pause.