Carry Yourself To Real Core Strength Loaded Carries are about as basic of an exercise as you’re going to get. In fact, they should be a staple of your program along with the other fundamental movements of push, pull, squat, and hip hinge that can be loaded heavy and trained hard, all [...]
If the only thing that you achieve by cranking out endless sets of dumbbell lateral raises is broken down and achy shoulders, chances are you are training this movement totally wrong. Before you throw away the lateral raise for good deeming it an "inherently dangerous" movement for the shoulders, you better do your homework [...]
There's No Faking The Mastery of Foundational Movement Patterns While there are no "exercises" that are absolute necessities in smart strength training programs, there are six foundational movement patterns that every single person walking the earth should be able to develop, load and master. And yes, I mean everyone. These fundamental movement [...]
Intelligently Build Your Shoulders To Get Out of Pain If you want shoulders that aren't chronically broken down and pissed off, you better hammer the backsides of your shoulders with concentrated volume and emphasis every day you walk into the gym. Think of building a thick upper back and big, round shoulders [...]
Getting Stronger Without Adding Weight To The Bar It’s been ingrained in our psyches for ages; the thought that if you aren’t adding weight to the bar, you are NOT getting stronger. But unless you are stepping onto the platform with competition goals any time soon, absolute strength should only be a [...]
Better Supersets for Better Movement Supersets and their many benefits have been written about countless times. They save time, they ramp up metabolic stress, and increase the amount of work you can do during a workout. For those that have yet to hear the concept of a superset, traditional supersets pair two [...]
Want To Stay Healthy? Build A Resilient Core If you want to have a long-lasting training career full of beneficial results until the day you put the dumbbells down forever, there is one absolute quality that can help you achieve that. A resilient core. Building yourself a well-trained, healthy core is vital [...]
Performance Tools for Better Health and Athleticism! It can be a great discouragement for many trainees when progress in the gym is hindered by sports injuries. The chaotic world of sport sometimes places our joints and connective tissue in unpredictable situations. These situations can be quite different from the ones that [...]
The Foam Roller Isn't Just For Traditional Self-Myofascial Release Just because you are using a foam roller as a tool doesn’t necessarily mean that movement should be considered a self-myofascial releases (SMR) technique. This may be hard for some of you overly touchy feely soft tissue zealots to conceptualize, but the foam [...]
There's a reason why most fitness and health goals turn into pure and utter BS in a matter of a few weeks, especially this time of year. Sure, change is hard, but it's also not acceptable to pigeon hole your goals before they even start with magical quick fix mindsets that [...]
