strength training
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What a First Session With Me Actually Looks Like
Most people walk into a first session braced for punishment. They expect burpees until they feel sick, a trainer with a stopwatch, some kind of test they can fail. Then we sit down and I ask about their sleep, and the whole thing deflates in a good way. The first hour is not a workout.…
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How Long to Rest Between Sets
Somebody I trained this spring set a timer for 45 seconds between every set of everything. Squats, rows, curls, all of it. He’d built the habit from an app three years earlier and never questioned it once. His squat had not moved in eight months. We changed one thing. Rest went to three minutes on…
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Why I Put Yoga Between Hard Training Days
A client told me that the yoga day felt like cheating. He’d done two hard sessions that week, both of them ugly in the good way, and then his Wednesday was twenty minutes on a mat in his living room. He asked if we could swap it for something real. We didn’t swap it. Six…