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 ...

Taking time away from the gym every six to eight weeks – known as a "deload week" – is actually the key to improving fitness ...

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 ...

"Deload weeks" are planned into many serious athletes' training programs and mean significantly reducing the intensity of workouts. They are designed to allow the body to recover and then perform at ...

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