Two certified strength and conditioning specialists explain the benefits of adding a week of scaled back workouts to your fitness plan, plus how to tell when you should take a load off. “Deloading is ...

A deload week is a planned period of time (typically a week) during which you reduce the intensity or volume of your workouts and focus on active recovery and lower-intensity workouts instead. Lower ...

You’ve been crushing your health and fitness goals recently: Eating protein at every meal, getting seven to nine hours of sleep, and hitting the heavy weights at the gym. But in the past few days, you ...

A deload week is something you do only if you are training regularly and actually need a break from your normal routine. It's a week to avoid overtraining and to recover from a period of performance ...

Adding a de-load week to your routine can help you build muscle and strength for efficiently. A powerlifting doctor said she ...

EVER HAVE A day in the gym where your light sets feel more like your heavy sets? You're not always going to be on your A game, and that sucks. Marcus Filly, functional bodybuilding coach and ...

Taking regular breaks from intense training, like deload weeks, helps your body recover, preventing fatigue and injury, and ultimately boosts fitness gains. Incorporating rest days and deload weeks is ...

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