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Stress, Recovery, Adaptation: A Tale of Castles and Vikings

Phil Meggers, SSC | August 29, 2019

Starting Strength Coach Phil Meggers explains the stress, recovery, adaptation cycle in strength training programming using a silly, but effective, medieval analogy.

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