Background Including the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) as part of a training program reduces hamstring strain injury (HSI) risk. The lack of NHE implementation may be due to fear of muscle soreness ...

For many people, the thought of beginning a fitness journey feels overwhelming. Between busy schedules, uncertainty about proper techniques, and concerns about injury, the barriers to starting ...

2 Faculty of Health Care, University of Professional Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3 Department of Pediatric Physical Therapy & Exercise Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, ...

For years we have been told the best way to get fitter and stronger is to lift something heavy, whether that’s a barbell or our own bodyweight. What if how we put it down was just as important? We all ...

If you’ve been lifting heavy for a long period of time, you’ve probably heard at some point that moving massive weight is going to absolutely destroy your body in a few decades. My own family ran this ...

Eccentric exercise focuses on movements, or phases of a movement, that lengthen the muscles. Some examples of eccentric exercise include lowering into a squat or lowering into a press-up. In contrast, ...

The word "eccentric", you’ll know, is most commonly used to describe someone or something unconventional – but in the world of fitness, it means something quite different. Thankfully, eccentric ...

Understand the science of lifting versus lowering to optimize your training and break through your next plateau. Banging out reps is pretty straightforward, generally speaking. Lift the weight, lower ...

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