Ah, New Year’s—a time to celebrate the end of another year, fresh beginnings, and for the “health and wellness” industry to dupe you into thinking you should be a different person. The phrase “new year, new you” is such a simple tactic to shame you into changing because societal standards are f’d up.

Everything carries some amount of risk from standing at your sink washing the dishes to doing a box jump. Recently, the latter led to a life changing event that I never expected.

Anyone else drowning in social media posts, articles and guru suggestions for “the perfect workout to (enter literally anything here)”? Seeing this kind of content as a fitness professional and body neutral trainer is so frustrating because the perfect workout doesn’t exist. If it did, we’d all be out of a job 😬. Okay, so let’s set the record straight.

That’s right, even the youngins! Fortunately like most things in life, strength/resistance training has no age limit. I’m not sure when society decided that only thin people between the ages of 20-40 should lift, but…(eye roll). Anyway, let’s tackle the biggest myths out there when it comes to this type of exercise.

What does hypertrophy, strength, power and linear periodization mean?