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TIPS & THE LATEST INFORMATION ON STRENGTH TRAINING FROM NEW ELEMENT TRAINING FOUNDER ANDREI YAKOVENKO

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How to tell if you're making progress in the gym

How can I measure my results? Am I getting stronger? How did I do compared to my last workout?

Working with hundreds of clients over many years specializing in our specific training has allowed me to understand these aspects of our training experience with a substantial degree of confidence.

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7 fundamentals of a healthy diet

Diet can be confusing. There are so many different dietary approaches, and all of them have pros and cons. Here are the most important principles to follow for lean tissue development and maintenance, as well as healthy body composition.

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How strength training protects your body and mind as you age

Research suggests that strength training can help prevent falls and stave off cognitive decline. Whether you’re focused on preserving a healthy body or a healthy mind, building and maintaining muscle is a powerful pathway to lifelong health.

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Why muscle strength is a sign of good health

Traditionally, there are four indicators a doctor looks at to assess a patient’s well-being: blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature. But in 2018, a team of researchers suggested that muscle mass should be included as one of the vital signs of health.

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Rejuvenate yourself from within: longevity pathways

Longevity science has been a popular topic in the past couple of years, largely due to a classic book called Lifespan by Harvard professor and longevity researcher David Sinclair, PhD.

In his book, Sinclair clearly outlines what science knows today about why we age, and what we can do about it. Yes, there are things we can do to delay aging on the level of our DNA.

Let's look at how exercise and in particular strength training affect your longevity epigenome (a system in your genome that regulates which DNA segments get expressed and which stay silent), in three important areas.

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What monkeys and lightbulbs can teach us about romantic relationship or Mindful Strength Training to Failure

Did you know that it's possible to reach muscular failure with a smile on your face, and wanting the set not to end, because it feels so good?

Sounds crazy, right? If anything, many people compare this kind of training to "torture." After all, how can you be smiling while your muscles are taken to the very limit of their full potential, with the intense burning and metabolic demand that involves?

The answer is Mindful Strength Training to Failure (MSTF), a term Philip Shepherd and I coined for our upcoming book. It all comes down to what's going on in your brain.

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