“People get focused on the weight on the bar because of the term ‘load’ in progressive overload,” says Norton, but more reps ...

'It’s because we lose power if we do strength training in the traditional sense [with higher reps and lighter loads]. When we ...

Muscle growth is not driven by a single magic formula. According to leading fitness professionals in the United States, true ...

SIMPLY PUT, WEIGHT training is training your body with external weights, typically implements like dumbbells, kettlebells, ...

High-rep training typically refers to sets of 12 reps or more. For a long time, it’s been pigeonholed as the go-to method for boosting muscular endurance, but a growing number of fitness professionals ...

A new study challenges one of strength training’s longest-running debates. The rep debate has been raging in gyms for decades. Should you lift heavy for fewer reps? Go lighter for higher reps? Can you ...

Hypertrophy is the increase in size and volume of muscle cells through a specific type of resistance training. Trainers ...

With a wealth of lifting advice online, it can be easy to get lost in the details, says trainer Eric Evans, AKA Average to Jacked on YouTube. He says a lot of lifters are 'drowning in overthinking ...

If you’ve gotten a little too comfortable with the same five- and 10-pound dumbbells, you’ve come to the right place. To convince you it’s time to lift heavy weights, we spoke with strength experts ...

The fitness and health industries are not only celebrating, but also encouraging, women to add resistance training to their ...