by Female Strength Academy | Feb 3, 2020 | Podcast
If you’ve been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and are a strength athlete, listen up! This episode is for you. In today’s episode, we discuss what an autoimmune disease is, how to manage your training/recovery, and how to alter your diet to live your best life as...
by Female Strength Academy | Sep 10, 2019 | blog, Recovery, Training
Sleep is one of the most important and underrated aspects of strength training recovery. Sleep is widely overlooked in the strength world, and only in recent years has caught the attention of lifters across the globe.Great, but what is sleep anyway, and how does it...
by Kristin Lander | Jul 23, 2019 | blog, Mindset, Training
I want to share something that happened to me recently and how I overcame it. About a week ago, I had a bad day of training. My game was just off, even though I was mentally prepared for my training that day. I walked in the gym ready to destroy. Warming up for...
by Mary Morton | May 22, 2019 | blog, Nutrition, Recovery
The big question: Does supplementing with caffeine and/or creatine help improve performance in skill-related tasks after an athlete has been deprived of a full night’s rest (7-9hrs)? Or better yet, can creatine and/or caffeine increase brain function in sleep deprived...
by Kristin Lander | Apr 22, 2019 | blog, Nutrition
What are the effects of alcohol on strength training? Anecdotally, I know alcohol affects my recovery which in turn affects my performance. I also know alcohol is inflammatory. But until now I had never truly read the research regarding alcohol and athletes. There...
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