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There comes a time when the weight stops going up week to week.

In this week’s episode, I go over what to do when you hit a plateau, how to manage it, and how to look at progress differently.

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Who doesn’t love a good bit of healthy competition.

Especially on days you would rather sit on the sofa.

That’s why having a bit of healthy competition can help, because it gives the goal more consequence.

For me, I know I’m more consistent when there’s a target, a challenge, or someone I don’t want to lose to.

Mainly because I am a sore loser.

But at least I’m a productive one.

#49 - Plyometrics Explained: How to Jump Higher, Sprint Faster, and Move Better.

Newest episode of the podcast is on Spotify now.

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One of the biggest mistakes I see is people treating load management as weight management.

They’re not the same thing.

When most people hear “manage load”, they immediately think:

“Take weight off the bar.”

But that’s only one variable.

Load management can involve:

Exercise selection.
Volume.
Tempo.
Range of motion.
Stability demands.
Frequency.
Proximity to failure.

This is why I’m not a huge fan of automatically deloading every 3 or 4 weeks.

In many cases, the issue isn’t that training has been hard.

The issue is that fatigue hasn’t been managed well enough throughout the block.

Good programming isn’t just about creating stress.

It’s about creating stress that can be recovered from.

The goal isn’t perfect symmetry.

The goal is improving the whole system.

Unilateral exercises help us in a number of ways.

If one leg is stronger than the other, that doesn’t automatically mean you should hold the stronger side back.

If there’s a genuine deficit affecting performance or increasing injury risk, address it, but some differences are completely normal.

Especially in sport.

A footballer’s stance leg and kicking leg perform different jobs. They will naturally develop different characteristics.

Would you stop practising with your kicking leg so your stance leg could catch up?

Of course not.

You’d continue developing both, knowing one will probably remain better at kicking.

The same principle applies to strength training.

8 years as a PT means a lot of lessons learned and plenty of mistakes made along the way. 🎧

In Episode 48 of the MH Performance Podcast, I’m breaking down the biggest mistakes I’ve made over the last nearly a decade in the fitness industry.

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Isometric 101

In this episode of the MH Performance podcast, I go over practical ways to incorporate isometric into your own training and my own experiences using them.

For every Podcast episode there’s a newsletter on the same topic.

Links to both can be found in bio.