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RECOVERY

If you’re training harder than everybody else at your gym, but all those expected gains just aren’t coming, it could be your body’s way of telling you to back off. What you need could have nothing to do with set/rep schemes or the fact that your glutes aren’t activated.

TO STRESS OR NOT TO STRESS

Hormones are essentially cellular messengers that deliver information about what’s happening outside the body to cells inside the body. Cortisol is the 911 hormone. Anything that poses a potential threat to the body (a stressor) will result in cortisol

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