Single leg work is one of the most beneficial and effective movement patterns that should be in any training program for building functional strength, packing on muscle, improving performance, and enhancing health and longevity. When it comes to single leg work, you’ll want to divide up your training into both split [...]
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 [...]
When it comes to feeling your best, things like clothing and food portions aren’t labeled as “one-size-fits-all”, so why should fitness be any different? In a world where fitness is now just a click of a button away on the internet..... Online Training Programs and Follow Along Workouts have been clogging up [...]
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 [...]
The Complete Kettlebell Exercise The snatch is a powerful full-body exercise that can be done with a variety of tools. Purists will say you can only do them with barbells, but if the goal isn’t to get onto an Olympic weightlifting team then your body and performance will enjoy the variety [...]
The Rise of The Instagram Booty Chick The last reason for following an Instagram booty chick is to learn something about strength training. It’s just really hard to take people seriously when they’re parading around 95% naked on social media. And that goes for men and women. Who are Instagram booty [...]
Properly Programming PLYOS: Far More Than Just Jumping As popularized by the athletic community, lower body plyometrics are speed and power-based exercises in which the muscles exert maximal force in minimal time by stretching and contracting repeatedly. Although there’s some debate as to what constitutes a “true” plyometric exercise, their value [...]
Physical & Mental Age-Related Declines Are NOT Inevitable Aging isn’t a sexy topic to discuss. Most people would rather talk about grammatical structure, fossil fuels, the Dewey Decimal system, or anything else, really, that doesn’t have to do with age. After all, aging is largely associated with falling apart, wasting away, [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Push Up PROGRESSIONS With everything going on right now, working out from home has become the new normal. Let's talk about one of the best bang for your buck upper body exercise that involves no equipment at all, and that is the push up. This exercise not only [...]
Today's MANDATORY Coursework: Bodyweight Training 101 We have all heard the phrase, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Well, that is what this article will do for you. This is not just a [...]
