Full Range of Motion vs. Partial Range of Motion Training Is this even a debate? Full range of motion, FOREVER. Forget this 90-degree nonsense that defies every established principle of biomechanics, movement anatomy, neurophysiology and motor skill development that’s been producing muscle, strength and resilience results for hundreds of years. But [...]
Stop Wasting Your Time "Working Out" We've all heard it before when it comes to improving our health... "You just need to workout more!" Surely that's the golden ticket to health, performance, longevity and transforming your physique, right? Absolutely not. If it were that easy, we wouldn't be seeing the atrocious [...]
Are You Training For Fat Loss? Many of us want to see the physical improvements in our body composition from the hard work we put into the gym. While celebrities and athletes may have top notch facilities, programs, recovery methods and even daily mapped out meals for fat loss, it doesn’t [...]
Today's Problem With Shoulder Pain and Poor Posture With today's western society continuing to battle chronic shoulder pain, injuries and postural problems, sometimes you must look to the past for for the answers to the future for health and longevity. What's old is new again, and damn do we need that now [...]
If you want to live a life packed full of meaningful training and sustainable progression without every falling victim to debilitating injuries, here are the 10 commandments of injury prevention that you need to live by. Staying healthy in the iron game isn’t a random coincidence, it’s a choice. Make yours [...]
Squatting With A Bar On Your Back Is The ONLY Way To Get Strong, Right? Before the rise of the online fitness industry, things used to be simpler. Ah, the good 'ole days! Back when the universal approach to getting bigger and stronger via strength training was extremely straight forward. If you [...]
Perfect Form Does NOT Exist... Teaching exercise is incredibly rewarding. We get to potentially be part of legitimately changing people’s lives for the better. However, it is not always a simple task, especially when it comes to exercise form. We are dealing with complex humans, specifically from the perspectives of emotion, psychology, [...]
Fix Your Breathing To Optimize Your Performance If you’ve hit a strength, endurance or performance plateau, or are just feeling beat to shit after every training session with the inability to recover, stop blaming your training and nutrition program on your stagnation and start looking at the movement pattern that transcends any [...]
DEBUNKING DEEPLY ROOTED SQUAT DOGMA The squat has been one of the most debated topics across demographics in the fitness and sports performance industries for as long as people have been lifting weights. As the fitness industry continues maturing, so does the ability to answer some of these debated questions. In [...]
Keeping Your Clients Healthy Needs To Be Top Priority As a coach, the last thing that should ever happen under your watch is your client or athlete hurting themselves. Some injuries, unfortunately, happen and are unpreventable. But as a coach you must injury prevention must first be prioritized over performance in order [...]
