Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Lift Less, Get Stronger

Daily Chase #229

Mar 30, 2026
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woman doing weight lifting
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Our friend (and 11-time CrossFit Games athlete) Cole Sager offers a counterintuitive insight: if you lift a light load as fast as possible, you activate as many muscle fibers as if you were grinding through a heavy load. The difference is you don’t fry your nervous system, which means you can train more often and accumulat…

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