Get Lean, Build Muscle & Stay Healthy... FOR GOOD A really good diet should shred body fat while allowing you to continue performing at a high level, keeping as much muscle mass as humanly possible – all of it ideally. This has become known as the "perfect diet" that all are seeking [...]
Online training is taking the fitness industry by storm. But many professional coaches and trainers have some serious reservations regarding this online trainer trend, and what it could possibly mean for the value of a highly effective professional trainer in our fitness industry. Simply put, many new trainers and fitness hobbyists jump [...]
Beyond The Basic Methods For Sport Specific Athletes Getting wickedly strong and powerful, developing speed and building muscle like a Greek God are all at least fairly commonly known practices and trained/developed in many athletes, regardless of sport. These are all pretty important qualities to develop for most athletes and help to [...]
The title caught you off guard, didn’t it? Yep – you read it correctly. I am going to give you a step by step guide on how you can injure yourself lifting weights. I usually write about what you can add to your training or lifestyle to develop positive outcomes, but wanted [...]
How The Reverse Band Method Works Bands are one of the single most underutilized tools in strength and performance training. Simply put, athletes and lifters that have neglected the unique and powerful benefits of banded barbell work are leaving a huge amount of performance on the table. This couldn't be any [...]
Aren't Working With Pro Athletes? That's Totally Fine... Really “But I want to work with elite athletes!” I hear that cry in some form from my students or via social media, newsletter, etc several times a month. The sad reality is that most never will and probably should not attempt it. Hang [...]
The Landmine: The Most Underutilized Setup In Strength The landmine setup is one of the single most effective strength training tools in the industry, but sadly it's hugely under-valued and highly underutilzed. By simply placing one end of a barbell stabilized into a corner of a room or in a specialty landmine [...]
Your Core Needs More Stability To Display It's Strength If you are inherently frail and weak, you truly have no business implementing direct dynamic core work into your programming with the goal of eliciting a training effect. Dynamic core work like crushes, sit-ups and side bends using loads and intensity have minimal [...]
Put An End To Shoulder Pain Once & For All If you’re reading this then you are probably one of 45-million Americans who regularly engage in some type of resistance training. If you’ve been resistance training for any length of time there’s a good chance that you may have been or are [...]
There's No Such Thing As "Perfect" Spinal Neutral Being unable to train the deadlift and squat, heavy or frequently kills progress. With nothing interrupting gains in the big lifts, like low back pain. Because back pain rarely strikes once, it often comes knocking again and again. Killing progress throughout the years, unless [...]
