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Muscle pulls or strains are a very common things today. Especially in sports Muscle pull or strain is a regular phenomenon as the muscle get fatigued and are more prone to strain. Insufficient warmup, over fatigues muscles, improper movements are all major reasons of muscle pull or strains. A strain […]

The hook grip is a weightlifting grip widely used by powerlifting athletes in order to maintain better stability. In a hook grip you have to wrap your thumb around the bar, then grab your thumb with your first two fingers and pull it further around the bar. The hook grip

Cortisol, the word which has been heavily attached to bodybuilding is none other than a body hormone which is also called stress hormone. It is a catabolic hormone which is completely opposite to testosterone which is a anabolic hormone. Catabolic means anything that is breaking down and anabolic means the

Breathing, something we do almost every second that we are alive. Sounds too cliched but yet the truth. When it comes to weightlifting though, breathing is a major component but has a different way to be performed. Most weightlifting coaches, manuals talk about something called as the Valsalva Maneuver, or

Just like your macro-nutrients your vitamins and minerals which form part of the micronutrient foods are also very important. The only reason they are called micro is that they are required by the body in less than 10g while the macro requirement is quite higher. This by no means lessens