If you follow a workout plan to build muscle you’ll be familiar with progressive overload, an approach in which one training variable gradually increases in difficulty with every workout. You’ll also ...

A deload week is a planned period of time (typically a week) during which you reduce the intensity or volume of your workouts and focus on active recovery and lower-intensity workouts instead. Lower ...

You’ve been crushing your health and fitness goals recently: Eating protein at every meal, getting seven to nine hours of sleep, and hitting the heavy weights at the gym. But in the past few days, you ...

If you take a look at a standard training plan, you may notice a rhythm: It’s typically a slow progression in a four-week cycle. Workouts build in intensity, volume, or a combination of the two, from ...

While you might have heard the phrase “go hard or go home” in the gym, there are plenty of benefits to slowing down. Going hard isn’t recommended all the time. Fitness pros often recommend deload ...