Coaching for Newbies Every coach has been there - It’s your first day. You’re standing on the training floor watching a group of athletes or a new client. You don’t know whether to cross your arms, put them behind your back, or take a knee and observe from a lower altitude. You [...]
There's No Excuse To Squat Through Hip Pain You heard me! Stop squatting through that “tightness”, “pinching sensation” in the front of your hip. Many times, people say that they feel a “pinching” or “tight” feeling on the front of their hip when they squat. Most of the time, it is [...]
Start Stretching To Build Muscle & Unlock Mobility Simultaneously If you've been left frustrated after trying to "fix" your mobility by slaving over the foam roller and religiously stretching each day, here's the reality. If soft tissue work and stretching didn't work the first hundred times you've tried it, it's not going to work [...]
Fix Your Technique With More Effective Cueing As athletes and coaches, our results are highly depend on proper movement execution and the continuous progress towards optimizing movement patterns to build a foundation of pain-free function. One of the single most challenging aspects of coaching is individualizing foundational movement patterns to best fit [...]
Build Your Upper Back To Save Your Shoulders With the rising incidence of chronic shoulder pain and dysfunction running ramped throughout the active population, something needs to be done to protect and rebuild healthy and pain-free shoulders. The actual mechanism of generalized front sided shoulder pain can stem from a host of postural [...]
How To Perfectly Customize The Deadlift To YOU The sumo deadlift has become popularized in the training world as an alternative option to the conventional deadlift. Let’s be clear – we believe that the deadlift is a foundational movement pattern that belongs in nearly every single type of training program. But remember, the [...]
Unstable Training... You Mean Like The Bosu Ball?! When I walk into many gyms, I often feel that I am witnessing a totally butchered, and much less elegant version of Cirque Du Soleil. I have seen countless people hopelessly flailing about on Bosu balls, wobble boards, and many other trivial devices, not [...]
There may be no term more polarizing in our sports performance and fitness industries than functional training over the past decade. But in lieu of it’s popularity, it’s apparent that people simply don’t know the true meaning, theory or application of this type of training methodology. Luckily, we have the “godfather” of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
