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Saying Goodbye to a Decade of Breaking Muscle

It's time for someone else to take Breaking Muscle through its next decade.

It’s been 10 years since Breaking Muscle began. When I first started, I wrote about what was interesting to me at the time because I couldn’t find the information anywhere else. I was interested in yoga, CrossFit, Russian kettlebell training, MMA, and then that lead me to weightlifting and gymnastics, but most of the specialist press was about bodybuilding and physique, with very little else. What was interesting to me and Breaking Muscle was niche and difficult to find and definitely not mainstream.

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Body Recomposition - Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

How to determine if you are a viable candidate for recomposition and your best strategies for success.

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From Coach to Student of Physical Therapy

While in school as a kinesiology major, the inability to diagnose and treat was the spark that goaded me towards physical therapy.

As a coach or personal trainer, you are limited by your knowledge and skillset. Therefore, certifications are suitable; however, one could become too heavy-handed and lose sight of their focus.

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Why Athletes Hate the Jerk Lift

According to my followers, the clean is simple; doing a snatch is okay, but they hate the jerk, as did I, but you can reach excellent outcomes with preparation and training.

Hello there, it’s Oleksiy Torokhtiy speaking. You may recognize me from my participation in weightlifting sports for more than twenty years. For ten of those years, I was an active member of the national team from Ukraine.

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Reducing High Blood Pressure With Isometric Resistance Training

Isometric resistance training (IRT) is easily accessible and may be a very useful, low cost intervention for sufferers of high blood pressure.

A new study looks the specific mode of exercise for managing high blood pressure, isometric resistance training (IRT). So, let's start with what is IRT? It is a type of strength training. You may be familiar with IRT exercises, often just called isometrics by trainers and coaches, something like pushing against a wall or holding a plank pose.

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Go Beyond the 5 Fundamental Movement Patterns

We can make our workouts more fun and useful by including elements that apply strength in natural human situations.

If you are into strength training, you’ve heard about the fundamental movement patterns—the natural human movements that most trainers believe all humans would, ideally, be able to demonstrate and load.

According to Dan John, there are five fundamental movements:

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Prevent Self-Sabotage With a Flexible Framework

So this entire essay, as I’ll call it, because I’m incredibly high brow, will be a discussion of what you need to set your framework and why you need it.

I’m the laziest, hyperactive, lethargic, ambitious, idle person you’ll meet. As breathing contradictions go, I get by. I’ve learned how to deal with myself by finally admitting just how much wiggle room I need to allow for the plans I create.

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Time Restricted Eating Is All About Age and Sex

Intermittent fasting, the process of time-restricted eating (TRE) counts for something when it comes to weight loss, and some diseases.

Time-restricted eating (TRE) is the bright shiny toy everyone wants on their diet list these days. Yeah, you can call it intermittent fasting. Salk scientists studying TRE in mice, looked into how it promotes multiple health benefits besides weight loss.

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The Lifting Game: Weightlifters Versus CrossFit Athletes

Two different types of athletes but how different?

Watching Seb Ostrowics over at Weightlifting House on YouTube is one of my guilty pleasures. A bowl of Frosted Flakes, ice cold milk, and the droopy, sonorous musings of a weightlifting nerd are all it takes to reduce my cholesterol and keep me away from Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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Do Genetics Make for Better Strength and Power Athletes?

There are many genetic markers that have been suggested as having associations with fitness and elite-level athletic characteristics.

Whether you are an athlete, are going to be king of your gym or show natural ability in certain types of physical fitness activities, genetics have been suggested as playing a role in the capacity for greater performance.

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How to Form Tough Identities That Propel Behavioral Change

How to cultivate empowering identities and clarify the behaviors associated with those identities.

We praise what matters. In a famous study, Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck found that students were far more likely to persevere through challenging problems and bring those problems home to work on more when they received praise for working hard rather than being smart.

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Lose 250 Calories Because Exercise Alone is Not Enough

Reducing calorie intake by approximately 250 calories per day may lead to significant weight loss and improve vascular health in older adults with obesity.

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The 505kg Deadlift Mark Remains Untouched

Lazy summers ain't what they used to be. Instead of whiling away the summer, strongmen were competing in the UK and trying to break the world deadlift record.

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Frailty Is the Disease, Physical Exercise Is the Cure

Frailty is a measure of the downside of aging; physical exercise is the cure.

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5 Ways to Get Client Buy-in and Increase Client Retention

Making the client feel included in the assessment and programming process makes them feel important and creates better buy-in and better results.

Put yourself in your potential client's shoes. Why would they fork over a large amount of cash to train with a person they barely know? Or, when they become clients, how do you keep them coming back? The answer is in the buy-in.

Are the clients buying what you’re selling?

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Programming for CrossFit Strength, Endurance, and Preparedness

The CrossFit Open 2022 is 36 weeks away. You need to start your training blocks now.

Someone asked me how I would program an 8-week CrossFit cycle and I had to say, I wouldn’t. Frankly, I prefer 12, 14 or 16-week programming blocks because I think 8-weeks is just too short to create some meaningful impact.

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How Lifting Weights Burns Fat

A new study adds to the body of evidence that resistance exercises have beneficial effects on fat loss.

Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to growing evidence that resistance exercise has unique benefits for fat loss. The Department of Physiology and Center for Muscle Biology study[1] published in the FASEB Journal found that r

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