My news feed is full of clips of fit guys and girls demonstrating all manner of creative activities involving some form of resistance, designed to be, in some way, the best method for targeting a specific area, muscle group, body part—whatever. For women, it’s 98% aimed at their legs and glutes. Guys, on the other hand, have made skipping leg day a cliché. Instead, they employ all kinds of varied movements, with or without resistance, for some arbitrary number of reps that fit into yet another arbitrary upper-body program. It all seems way too contrived and needlessly complicated.

Weightlifting is pretty easy in concept—you lift something…

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