Straight answers on strength, body recomposition, nutrition, and training with structure, from the Gryffon Performance coaching team.
The qualities that made you capable are trainable. Power, speed and durability all respond to training and decline without it, and almost nobody past thirty trains them on purpose.
Women showed a larger response than men for upper-body strength on identical programs. The place you’ve most often been told to go light is the place you respond best.
The injury healed months ago. What’s stopping you is the strength you lost while protecting it, and the fact that feeling ready lags being ready by a long way.
Across 33 studies of people with no pain at all, disc degeneration showed up in 37 percent of 20-year-olds and 96 percent of 80-year-olds. The scan is a poor guide to what you can do.
Most people pick a trainer on photos and proximity, then find out in eight weeks whether the guess was right. Five questions tell you more than any website will.
In one classic trial, identical training produced strength gains ranging from zero to 250 percent across participants. That spread is the entire argument against being handed a program on day one.
