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Training and nutrition, explained
Evidence-informed writing on how training actually works — volume, technique, nutrition, recovery and programming. Free, with the sources attached, and worth reading whether or not you ever open the app.
The first articles are being written
Nothing is published yet — and rather than fill this page with something that reads like an article but isn't, here is exactly what the first pieces cover.
- Planned
Volume and the dose-response curve
How much work a muscle actually needs, where the returns flatten, and what the landmark ranges are really measuring.
- Planned
Progression that survives a full block
Adding load is one lever of several. Which to pull, when, and how to tell a stall from a bad week.
- Planned
Reading your own training data
What a trend line can and cannot tell you, and the readings people most often get backwards.
Resources
Reference cards and worksheets — the things worth having open on your phone in the gym rather than read once and forgotten.
Nothing to download yet. The reference cards and worksheets that belong here are being made alongside the writing, and they will appear as files rather than as promises.
The long view
A library, not a content strategy
Curative writes about training because understanding the mechanism is what makes a lifter independent of whoever wrote their program. That is a body of work, and it is being built one piece at a time.
- Hypertrophy
- Volume and recovery
- Programming
- Exercise selection
- Progression
- Physique development
- Coaching
- Reading your own data
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