Are ankle mobility issues limiting your ability to train effective, or worse, predisposing you to injuries? Here are 10 exercises to help you improve your ankle mobility quickly and effectively. These drills will address potential joint restrictions, soft tissue tone and tightness, and of course teach you how to incorporate movement to [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The Box Squat is one hell of a teaching tool to perfect a hip dominant pattern. But the increased spinal compression that is exaggerated due to the force of the box makes this squat variation notoriously tough on the lower back, causing aches, pains and injuries [...]
The Most Undervalued Type of Resistance The use of bands in training is nothing new in the fitness and sports performance industries. That being said, the popularization of band training has created one hell of a double-edged sword for producing results while staying healthy in the process. Why? Coaches and athletes alike [...]
The Ageless Cardio Debate When it comes to cardio, most people think, operate and sweat profusely in completely black and white terms. As we've learned in the fitness industry, there are no absolute answers to heath and wellness, so why should cardio be any different? Some steadfastly believe that doing steady [...]
If you want to be a big, strong functional athlete who looks as good as they perform, varying your training and incorporating both unilateral and bilateral training based movements need to be an integral aspect of any effective training program no matter the goal. For lifters and athletes who predominantly train bilaterally, changing up the [...]
It's been said that you're only as strong as your weakest link, but guess what? When you push your body to the brink of failure, that weakest link becomes one of the single most likely areas for injuries to occur. Sure that sounds pretty simple, but what if I were to tell [...]
The Most Requested Exercises by My Female Clients Over the years I've carved out a little niche in women's fitness as a personal trainer. And I have to say, empowering these ladies with the iron and training hard and heavy has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my career. [...]
The hips are a common area that clinicians, strength coaches, and even athletes and patients have complaints of immobility or tightness. Hip mobility is an important area for mobility in order to decrease the stress and strain on the lumbar spine, knees, or other areas of the kinetic chain to have [...]
Warning: this post contains liberal amounts of ad homonyms, strawman arguments, and pure cow manure; but hopefully will inspire some mutual eating of crow and perhaps some critical thinking. I Have a Joke For You, And It's Not Your Ugly Squat It's truly amazing that amongst all the peasantry and squabbling in [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The squat is one of the most important lifts known to mankind. Effectively training this essential human movement pattern leads to increased strength, hypertrophy, and performance. 2. Regardless of the variation, there are mandatory components seen in EVERY squat. This is to ensure maximal mechanical [...]
