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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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.
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.
Older lifters need fewer heavy singles and more attention to recovery. What adjusts with age and what stays the same across 40+ training.
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.
Work, sleep loss, and life stress reduce recovery capacity in measurable ways. How to autoregulate training when everything outside the gym is hard.
What the peer-reviewed sleep literature shows about strength, recovery, and training. The mechanisms and the specific effect sizes on lifters.
Most lifters either never deload or do it by accident. Three frameworks for deloading on purpose, and when to use each.
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.
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.