We build muscle by pushing it to its limit and beyond. This is what gives it a reason to grow and improve. We do this by adding more weight, doing more reps, more sets, and progressively increasing our overall work load, The adverse side of this is it puts more stress on muscles, joints and tendons. Thus you walk a fine line between positively stressing the muscle for growth and injuring the muscle and its components. Push it just a bit too far and muscles pull and tear and

When we think about what strategy to take to lose weight, we think get a gym membership, hire a trainer, do lots of cardio and replace all those cookies and pizzas with healthier options. Exercise has been synonymous with weight loss in popular culture since before Dr. Jonas Gustav Wilhelm Zander popularized the connection between exercise and well-being and invented the Gymnasticon, the world’s first piece of exercise equipment in the late 1800’s. As it turns out though, wha