"Retirement is the worst idea the brain ever encountered."
That's neuroscientist Tommy Wood. He's watched cognition drop off a cliff when people stop working.
Retirement didn't exist here until the 1930s. Before that, people worked into their 70s and 80s. The tribes that still
Rule one: you never set the weights down. Not between reps, not between sets, not during the 30 seconds of “rest.”
I learned this in a Pennsylvania basement from John Schaeffer, the trainer behind Apolo Ohno's eight Olympic medals.
What his athletes have in common: legs that