Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Functional training is the latest craze in the fitness and sports performance industries, but its blatant lack of "functional" carry over based on the science makes it one hell of a misleading hoax. 2. Just because a functional training exercise may look or even [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. If you want to stay healthy and lift forever, older lifters need to start differentiating between wants and needs. Prioritizing strength and power while placing mobility and general health and fitness on the back burner is not the recipe for long term success. 2. Ignoring [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The dynamic warm up is an integral part of the pre-training routine, but it isn't everything. The use of strategic "ramp up" sets will not only warm you up, but add pain-free volume to your training in the process. 2. If muscle and strength [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. In an ego-driven fitness industry fueled on testosterone and stupidity, it begs the question, how strong is strong enough? If you want to lift for the long haul, you better be asking these questions or dare to pay the price. 2. Overemphasizing pure strength can [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Physical Therapists are the experts in the movement system and their ability to be professionally identified as the go-to movement practitioners in the medical system with this movement based body system helps to solidify physical therapy's place in the health care continuum. 2. Staking this claim [...]
The Power of Programming Supersets One of the easiest ways to cut time off your workouts and add a challenging metabolic component to hypertrophy-specific training is by including the intelligent programming of supersets and compound sets. Not only will supersets allow you to nearly double your overall workload and volume per workout, [...]
The glutes are the functional cornerstone of the human body, and anyone who doesn't agree should review their movement anatomy and gross human biomechanics. The glutes also happen to be one of the most neglected regions for most lifters who are caught up in the hysteria of overly traditional training. Here's why using the [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The kneeling push up is NOT a safe and effective way to train the push up, period. By using this variation, you'll not only make little to no progress in upper body strength, but may even get hurt in the process. 2. The kneeling [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Even some of the fittest women struggle to increase their pull up strength enough to string a few reps together and get a training effect. But the problem isn't the way they train the pull-up, it's the way they train everything else. 2. When [...]
This week I am stoked to have coach Eric Bach featured on JRx with his latest work focusing on power development and programming. Eric is my go to expert in the field of athletic performance and training, so I am excited that you will all have the chance to learn from [...]
