Strength, Hypertrophy and Metabolic are three modalities, when talking about muscle training. Strength training demands loads of effort from neuro-muscular systems and can’t be sustained for long, think 1 – 3 repetition max with a good form and technique. It can be any exercise trained in this modality, but it is not very practical to rely on for training every body part. If Strength is your main goal then expect doing some compound movements for low reps and long rest times. But even Strength training will benefit from other two modalities, because high intensity training like 1RepMAX (1RM) c ..read more

There are things that work and things that don’t in every field. And proffessional from any field must always thrive for the best set of knowledge and experience. Constantly learning and growing. And if at any point a proffessional settles and assumes that he or she knows enough, they are cheating them selves and their clients. Unfortunately there are always enaugh people, who have no idea about nieche specific standarts especially if they are up to date and so on, and that allows for a lot of mediocre proffessionals to give a crapy service without you knowing it. Is your personal trainer any ..read more

There are many reasons to move more and with some intensity. Some of them being healthy circulatory system, hormones, to look nice naked. Those are some, but there is more to it. It is actually even deeper than that. As neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert says: ”There is only one reason we have big brains and it is complex and adaptive movement.” And there are plenty of studies, theories, statements that prove it, with no doubt. There is direct impact on human body functions in so many levels – reduced anxiety, improved sleep quality, brain health, ability to learn, reduction of inflamation and so o ..read more

Loads of people start ”working out” with great enthusiasm and excitement. The first few session ussually go well, they get the DOMS, feel like they worked hard and it is all nice. But all of a sudden they fall off of the ”working out” vagon. And there is multiple reasons why this is likely to happen to somebody that has little to no experience in effective training regime and habits. Here i will give 10 tips (in my head those are rules to obey if you are really looking foward for some serious gains/results and what not.) So here you go: Rule number one: Get a realistic, well thought through t ..read more

People often talk about living an exciting, adventurous life with no worries, no problems and challenges. Everyone talks about happiness, positivity and smiling all the time. Doing what you like and somehow manifest a sustainable life. But to me that does not sound right. It is not sustainable. It may sound nice, but it does not resonate with reality. Not the one im talking about atleast. You see – in the real word there is chaos. Anything unatended and unsustained with no extra energy spent, will collapse and break down. That alone implies that there will be some effort needed to maintain any ..read more

Everyones life is a tragedy – we are all going to die, inevitably want it or not. Even the universe as it is known is going to lose its energy, expand in the oblivion and every single star, sooner or later, will dim down and fade away in an invisible lumps of matter. And by knowing that, life gets so much more valuable, and it’s fragility is much more terrifiying. And the lack of control over known and unknown realities of life can make an unseasoned human being unhappy, anxious or depressed. And this reaction stems from our instinctual expectations and needs wich is in constant threat not to ..read more