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Working Out & Lifting Weights With a Face Mask: What Do the Experts Say?

Why should you listen to me? I have a background in exercise science (B.Sc) and epidemiology (PhD). Since the pandemic hit, I read and wrote a lot about the coronavirus, including a review of cost-effective interventions to suppress COVID-19 and a series of long-form articles with Tomas Pueyo that

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Over Time, Load Mediates Muscular Hypertrophy in Resistance Training

Our letter to the editor is out! In August, Morton et al. (2019) published a review titled Training for strength and hypertrophy: an evidence-based approach. In that paper, they argue that “load does not mediate resistance-training-induced muscular hypertrophy.” Instead, they suggest that “the most potent regulator of resistance-training-induced muscular hypertrophy

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Rest-Pause Set for Hypertrophy: Benefits, Examples & More

A practical, science-based guide to building muscle faster with rest-pause sets, a technique used by the only bodybuilder to ever beat Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Mr. Olympia

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