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If you've been training for any amount of time, your clients -- or you personally -- have experienced injuries. The stress of training, or of participating in additional athletic endeavors, leaves all of us beat up on occasion. When this happens, how can we maximize our recovery efforts to make sure we can not only heal efficiently but return to our training in a reasonable way?

This week, Dr. Mario Novo gives us a virtual textbook on recovery techniques -- and it's not all about RICE. He covers it all, including inflammation and NSAID use, replacing the RICE/PRICE protocols with POLICE protocols, blood flow restriction training, compression, soft tissue mobilization, and more, so you can help yourself and your clients bounce back and recover faster.

Strength Training

Should You Deadlift Conventional or Sumo? -- Greg Nuckols

Anterior Humeral Glide: Preventing it to Keep You In The Game -- Dean Somerset

5 Critical Coaching Cues, Confused -- Greg Robins

The Low Bar Squat -- Thomas Campitelli, TonyGentilcore.com

How to Get REALLY Good at Carrying in Groceries -- Tanner Baze

Nutrition

Is Diet Coke Bad For You? -- Scott Baptie, Food For Fitness

4 Reasons Flexible Dieters Should Give a Crap About Workout Nutrition -- Mike Samuels

Should a Low-Carb Diet Be Ultra High in Butter? -- Kris Gunnars, Authority Nutrition

Discover the Nutritional and Health Benefits of Buckwheat - It's Not a Grain But It Is a Superfood -- John Falkinder

6 Simple Ways To Reduce Water Retention -- Hrefna Palsdottir, Authority Nutrition

General Health

Where Fitness Professionals Go Wrong When Training Women -- Tony Gentilcore

Reflections Of An Imperfect Coach -- Gregg Slater, Shredded By Science

I'm Not Driving This Car, You Are - Autonomy For The Personal Trainer -- Stuart Aitken, Shredded By Science

How To Shape Clients' Behavior With Strategies That Change Their Environment -- Justin Kompf, the PTDC

Readiness For Change - Is Now The Right Time? -- Dan Mitchell, Shredded By Science

Bodybuilding

Blood Flow Restriction - The Holy Grail for Accessory Work? -- Greg Nuckols

The 5 Most Painful Ways to Build Muscle -- John Rusin, T-Nation

7 Rules To Build Strength And Size -- Nick Smoot, JMax Fitness

The Best Biceps Exercises You're Not Doing -- Brian McFadden, T-Nation

Tip: Use This Workout to Build Your Puny Calves -- Christian Thiabaudeau, T-Nation

Fat Loss

2 Big Reasons Why Cheat Meals Are Worse Than Darth Vader -- Steve Kamb

The 7 Biggest Weight Relapse Mistakes -- Tom Venuto

The 'Get Shredded' Series - Part 2 (Environment) -- Steve Hall

Lean To Ripped: A No-Nonsense Fat Loss Plan Of Action -- Scott Tousignant

Why Do Cheat Days Suck for Fat Loss? -- Tim Berzins