Adult Fitness Training Archives - Josh Shuman Training

Your Body’s Been Telling You for Months. You Just Thought It Was Saying Something Else.

Your Body’s Been Telling You for Months. You Just Thought It Was Saying Something Else. The busy working woman had been apologizing to me for months. She’d show up to her 30 minute session on time, having eaten something beforehand, ready to work. And about ten minutes in, she’d go lightheaded. Not gassed, not out […]

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Stop Skipping Workouts. Start Shrinking Them.

Stop Skipping Workouts. Start Shrinking Them. A client of mine, a newer dad, showed up to a session a few months back looking like he’d been through something. He had been. His newborn had him on a sleep schedule apparently designed by a tiny anarchist with no respect for labor laws. Some nights four wakeups.

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How Long Does a Muscle Strain Actually Take to Heal?

A client of mine spent a weekend playing baseball with his nephews, which is how most of these start. Nothing happened. No dramatic moment, no diving catch, nobody carried off the field. He just ran around like a man who had temporarily forgotten what age he was, and by Monday something in his quad had

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Push Where You Are: Stop Forcing the Range You Don’t Have Yet

I had a client, an older woman, whose shoulders did not want to cooperate. We’d been working on her mobility for a while and making real progress, and she was fired up about it. She wanted to push. Add weight, chase the burn, actually feel like she was training instead of doing physical therapy homework.

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Why Some Exercises Always Feel Hard (And When That’s Lying to You)

If an exercise feels impossible, you’re probably reading the wrong signal. I had a client who could not do single leg hip thrusts without her hamstring trying to leave her body. A few reps in, the thing would seize up into a full charley horse, except in her Boston accent it was a “chaaalie hawse,”

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Stop Punishing Yourself Into Habits That Were Never Going to Stick

She kept pushing the start date. New to exercise, completely overwhelmed, no idea where to begin. Every week there was a reason it wasn’t quite the right time. Work was busy. Wait until after the holidays. Maybe the new year. I’ve watched a hundred people do this and it’s almost never laziness. It’s that the

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Some Exercises Just Aren’t For You (And That’s Not a Character Flaw)

I have a client who used to get a tailbone flare-up every single time we deadlifted to the floor. Not soreness. Not a tweak she’d shake off by the parking lot. A real one. The kind that makes you sit a little sideways for about a week and reconsider your relationship with chairs. For a

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The Science of Strength Just Got Updated. Here’s What It Actually Means for You.

The American College of Sports Medicine published new resistance training guidelines in March 2026. First update in 17 years. They pulled from 137 systematic reviews covering over 30,000 participants, which is about as thorough as this kind of research gets. The headlines focused on the heavy lifting stuff. Go hard, lift at least 80% of

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Your Body Is Leaning. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.

A client kept having flare ups. We’d tried backing off certain movements, adjusted his load, took things easier for a stretch. Nothing worked. The flare ups kept coming back and we couldn’t figure out why. So we did something different. Took a photo from straight on and drew a line from the middle of his

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Nobody Told You Arm Training Was Allowed (And Most People Are Still Doing It Wrong)

Somewhere along the way, arm training became the thing serious lifters pretend they don’t care about. You’re supposed to squat heavy, pull heavy, press heavy, and be above vanity. Bicep curls are for the guy in the tank top who’s been doing the same workout since 2009 and still asks people if they’re using that

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