Blog
Product news and training notes from Musku.
Creatine, Cluster Sets and Ashwagandha: This Week's Training Science
This week on PubMed: creatine, cluster sets, ashwagandha and training timing, broken down simply for your time in the gym.
ReadHow Many Sets Per Muscle Per Week?
The minimum that works, the productive range, and where extra sets stop paying. How to count your sets, including the ones that count half.
ReadTraining With Dumbbells Only: How Far Can You Get
A pair of dumbbells covers almost everything except the lower body. Exercise-by-exercise swaps, and how to progress without small plates.
ReadLosing Belly Fat: Why It Is the Last Place to Go
You do not choose where fat comes off. Why the belly holds out longest, what actually works, and what is not fat at all.
ReadBulking: How Many Kilos a Month Without Getting Fat
0.25 to 0.5 % of bodyweight per week: the rate that limits fat gain, what your level actually allows, and how to check it over four weeks.
ReadPartial Reps: Which Ones Are Actually Worth Doing?
Not all half reps are equal. The bottom half, the top half and heavy partials serve very different purposes.
ReadResistance Bands: What They Are Actually Good For
A band is easy at the bottom and hard at the top, the opposite of a barbell. What that changes, where they excel, and their real limits.
ReadReturning to Lifting After an Injury Without Repeating It
What load to restart with, how to read pain, what to train meanwhile: the markers for a comeback that does not end in a relapse.
ReadTraps: You Are Probably Only Training a Third of Them
The trapezius has three portions and shrugs only train one. The exercises for the middle and lower fibres, and why they change your shoulders.
Read12 More Lifting Myths: Technique, Nutrition and Age
Knees, rounded backs, the 30 g protein ceiling, age and fat burners: twelve more lifting myths examined against what the evidence says.
Read12 Lifting Myths That Refuse to Die
Soreness, the anabolic window, creatine, cardio and fat loss: 12 common lifting myths examined against what the evidence actually says.
ReadStretch Tension and Peak Contraction: A Better Way to Pick Exercises
Every exercise is hardest at one point of the range. Knowing where changes how you build a session, and probably your results.
Read