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Goal-Setting: Mind Your Own Business

After yesterday’s article (Realistic is Overrated), let’s talk some more about goal-setting and motivation with a bit more nuance. Goals serve two basic purposes:  They keep you on track, and they keep you motivated. There are also two basic types of goals:  outcome goals (what you want to accomplish) and process goals (what you need to do repeatedly in order to accomplish your outcome goals). Outcome goals are the goals that play a bigger role in motivation, and

The “Hypertrophy Rep Range” – Stats and Adjustments

If you stumbled upon this article randomly, just know from the outset that it is mainly supplemental material for this article, and it probably won’t make much sense if you try to read it by itself.  I found 20 studies that directly compared different rep ranges and intensity zones.  Seven of them weren’t usable for various reasons (reasons for exclusion will be explained below).  Of the remaining 13, there were 23 direct comparisons between different

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