fitness

Your physical disciplines reflect your deepest interests and reveal the less understood facets of our being.

Take some time to see how training methods and philosophies play out over time, but always plan to reevaluate again and again.

Haphazardly loading a barbell and doing one set until you fall in exhaustion shouldn’t be the plan for the majority of lifters.

If you practice these movements and internalize the feeling when you perform the lift at full speed, the body will open with a natural fluidity into the power position.

This isn't about quitting when things get tough. Sometimes it’s pivoting and going a different way.

How do we learn to harmonize our conscious thought with the feeling and reactions within the body?

Bootstrapped gyms have to be about passion, commitment, and ultimately, service to the community.

Someone who is strength training should have the flexibility to go on a weekly run and remove a day on the weights. That's heresy to some coaches who want to keep you in the gym.

Adding bodybuilding work to your weightlifting practice has its benefits, both ways.

How do we make sure we’re using the correct weights as we base percentages off of a max that may change during a two or three-month long training block?

And in denying your exploration into other expressive forms of movement and practices, you’re denying your own unique individuality.

If you want to develop yourself through many practices, even if only very slowly and recreationally, you need to create structure before you add.

You want to add yoga to your Olympic weightlifting or try martial arts with your powerlifting? Let's see what makes sense.

Double compound movements can be combined to create a fast and extremely powerful training effect.

Here's where you start to focus on the feeling of a good squat because it's a great feeling.

It’s about changing your impression of what difficult is, and who you are when you meet it.

Start everything in your life the proper way, or don’t start at all.