Men's Fitness UK

GO THROUGH A PHASE

Never mind the advances in science and cutting-edge fitness thinking; sometimes you’ll find the best advice has been around for some time. Thousands of years, in fact.

Varying the intensity of training over a series of cycles to avoid a plateau, known as ‘periodisation’, became popular in the 20th century, but it was the Ancient Greeks who first realised the benefits. Legend says the strongman

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