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Build Shoulder Strength to Avoid Injury

Overhead Stability: A Strength Training Must
All those overhead lifts don't require strength alone. Reduce injury, improve your form in lifts, and strengthen your overhead stability.

Overhead Stability: A Strength Training Must

Train the Foundation of Success: Willpower
Whether your goal is to begin eating better or you want to start exercising more, willpower is essential to your success. So where is the plan for that?

Train the Foundation of Success: Willpower

The Six Pack of Knowledge: Thought Leaders in Hypertrophy
Some of the best coaches with expertise in hypertrophy, bodybuilding, and physique can be found in these podcasts. New ones added regularly. A great reference source for enthusiasts and trainers.

The Six Pack of Knowledge: Thought Leaders in Hypertrophy

5 Weight Loss Principles That Say It All
Put these five principles in place and you’ll have a much easier time sticking to your nutrition plan.

5 Weight Loss Principles That Say It All

A Comprehensive Guide to Unilateral Training for Injury-Free Training and Performance
Unilateral training has a hugely beneficial impact on joint health, stability, coordination, and balance.

A Comprehensive Guide to Unilateral Training for Injury-Free Training and Performance

Strength Routines for Developing a Strong and Healthy Upper Back
A strong upper back is vital to minimize shoulder joint and girdle injuries. Strengthening these areas can be done with proper balance of pushing and pulling. Here are workouts for you to follow.

Strength Routines for Developing a Strong and Healthy Upper Back

The 4-Hour Fat Loss Elixir For Busy Lifters
You deserve the chance to dominate work, rest, and play every day, in every way.

The 4-Hour Fat Loss Elixir For Busy Lifters

Determining Heavy Loads and Understanding Intensity in Weight Lifting
Use actual intensity, relative intensity, and perceived intensity to dial in your weight training.

Determining Heavy Loads and Understanding Intensity in Weight Lifting

Vision Drills for Better Performance in Physical Movement
Does the way your brain gathers information and what it does with it have an effect on your training, performance or recovery?

Vision Drills for Better Performance in Physical Movement

Getting Bigger, Getting Stronger, Getting Smarter
Powerlifters should train like bodybuilders.

Getting Bigger, Getting Stronger, Getting Smarter

How to Fit Exercise Into Every Day
When you make movement a natural extension of your daily patterns, it is easy to fit exercise into every day.

How to Fit Exercise Into Every Day

The Gap Between Health and Fitness
Health and fitness is not a race.

The Gap Between Health and Fitness

Balance Across Disciplines Can Make You Great
You’ve created your structure on grasping skills, so when you move into new scopes you can integrate it all and become a competent force.

Balance Across Disciplines Can Make You Great

The 3 Laws of Muscle Activation in Resistance Training
When designing resistance training programs, we can't ignore physics. Here are 3 laws of training that will simplify your programming and help you become more successful (i.e. stronger).

The 3 Laws of Muscle Activation in Resistance Training

Staying On During Your Off-Season
Whether you are competing or working towards specific goals, you will always have a time that falls outside of your normal training cycles.

Staying On During Your Off-Season

Deloading 101: What Is a Deload and How Do You Do It?
Plain and simple, a deload is a short planned period of recovery. Here are four ways to do it and why you absolutely must include it in your training.

Deloading 101: What Is a Deload and How Do You Do It?

3 Strategies for Optimizing Mechanical Tension
Don't get hung up on one particular style of training but use variety of different exercises, rep ranges, and training styles.

3 Strategies for Optimizing Mechanical Tension

Write Your Training Programs Like a Book
A training cycle, like a story, has a beginning, middle, and end, and each has elements that are necessary for it to work.

Write Your Training Programs Like a Book

Ignite: Fat Loss - Real Fitness. Real Fat Loss. Real Results.

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Prepare for Takeoff With the Deadlift Checklist
For most people, the deadlift looks like someone just walks up and pulls a bar off the floor, but that is already a misconception: it is a push, not a pull.

Prepare for Takeoff With the Deadlift Checklist

6 Essential Mindsets For Getting Back In Shape
Once you learn to master your mindset you’ll gain the fluidity and inner resources to dominate your goals.

6 Essential Mindsets For Getting Back In Shape

News

Do You Lift, Bro? Most Americans Say Nah!

Resistance Training Improves Exercise Motivation

Protein Supplements Are Not for Snacking

HIIT Reductio is Better Than Nothing, Much Better

Social Media Fire: Gyms and Butt Pics

The Ultimate Guide to Muscle Gain and Hypertrophy

Analyzing High Versus Low-Load Resistance Training Methodologies

HIIT: Work Through the Pain to Reach Euphoria

Just Follow the Protocols for Exercising During Pregnancy

Controlling the Chaos of Training in CrossFit
We kick off our first podcast of 2020 with James Fitzgerald. He has over 20 years of experience as a strength coach, is a CrossFit games champion and is the founder of OPEX.

Controlling the Chaos of Training in CrossFit

5 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Weightlifting Belt
We're going to look at how to make the best of a simple but effective training aid - the weightlifting belt. Here's how to use it. Are you using yours properly?

5 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Weightlifting Belt

3 Tips to Getting Through Plateaus in the Gym
No one joins the gym to make zero progress.

3 Tips to Getting Through Plateaus in the Gym

Nothing Will Change This Year If You Don't
Maybe this year it is time for a different approach if you have been unsuccessful in the past.

Nothing Will Change This Year If You Don't

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The Practice of Natural Movement
Learn about the most functional of functional fitness philosophies.

The Practice of Natural Movement

Everyone's Bike: The NordicTrack S22i
This stationary studio bike by NordicTrack checks all the boxes.

Everyone's Bike: The NordicTrack S22i

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Sandbags to Help You Get It Together

Pull It Tight, Lift It Right

Energy Bars to Upgrade Your Lifestyle

The Guide to Overcoming Poor Posture

How Do You Take Your Vitamins?

Roll Yourself to Better Mobility

Groceries: The Final Frontier in Fitness

Massage Your Way to Better Mobility and Recovery

Social Media Fitness App: Not Your New Bvddy

Get Wild: Clean Foods to Fuel Your Body and Mind

Protein To Go: Au Bon Bone Broth
It's expensive but there's no doubting the quality of the final product.

Protein To Go: Au Bon Bone Broth

A Comprehensive Guide to Gym Flooring
You need a good floor. It's the foundation of your home and commercial gym. The same flooring seems to do well in both places and it doesn't have to be expensive.

A Comprehensive Guide to Gym Flooring

Keep Track of Your Nutrition On the Go
Sometimes you don’t have anywhere to keep your meals cool when you are out for the day, but with these bags your problems are solved.

Keep Track of Your Nutrition On the Go

Can Colostrum Make A Difference In Your Life?
Could colostrum be beneficial to your health?

Can Colostrum Make A Difference In Your Life?

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Recipes

The Keto Diet: Basted Egg with Lemon Ricotta

A Free Keto Diet Recipe Book: Lox Stuffed Avocados and More

Eating Well As We Age: Parmesan Crusted Walleye

20 Ways to Prepare Poultry: Chicken Potstickers

Jackfruit: Protein for Athletic Summers

Summer Barbecue: How About Clean Eating and a Vegetables Only Dish

Subscription Eating - Not Your Mother's Take Out

Prebiotic Food: Broccoli and White Bean Soup

No Powder Protein Bars

The Athlete's Friend, Eggs: Best Buying Practices
Fun fact in case you missed it—the only difference between brown and white eggs are that brown eggs come from chickens with brown feathers and white eggs come from chickens with white feathers.

The Athlete's Friend, Eggs: Best Buying Practices

Top 10 Foods to Gain Muscle Mass
Don't sabotage your gains with poor nutrition.

Top 10 Foods to Gain Muscle Mass

Turkey Piri Piri Burgers
As your summer heats up, spice up your burger game with these turkey piri piri burgers.

Turkey Piri Piri Burgers

Greek Pimiento Burgers
Take a summer food vacation to Greece by combining all of the signature flavors in a tasty, grilled burger!

Greek Pimiento Burgers

Caprese Chickpea Burgers
Lighten up your summer eating with this chickpea based vegetarian burger.

Caprese Chickpea Burgers

Ginger Scallion Pork Burgers
Change up your barbequed burger routine with a little something unexpected.

Ginger Scallion Pork Burgers

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Shawn Gerber

Shawn Gerber

Endurance Sports, Nutrition, Strength and Conditioning

Amanda Thebe

Amanda Thebe

DVRT, Nutrition, Personal Training

Shane Trotter

Shane Trotter

Strength and Conditioning, Kettlebells, Youth Development

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Gym Owners: How Do You Measure Your Success?
Unfortunately, many gym owners don't even count the money they don't pay themselves and lose sight of what truly matters in a successful gym business.

Gym Owners: How Do You Measure Your Success?

The 6-Week Challenge: Playing a Losers Game
6-week challenge versus professional coach for life: Which business are you in? You can’t be in both.

The 6-Week Challenge: Playing a Losers Game

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Leave No Client Behind

A Practical Experiment in Muscle Fiber Activation

Training the Overspecialized Athlete

Rational Periodization in Strength Training

The Approach of the Coach: Evidence Versus Intuition

Productive Programming: How to Develop a Sound Training Philosophy

Crunching Numbers: How to Grow a Fitness Business

Are You Programming Recovery for Your Athletes?

If You're Not Training Champions, You're Only Creating Elitism

The Invaluable Experience of Working for Free

Client’s First Day: Find the Pain
Without a deeper, personal connection, the business of coaching isn't going to work. Learn the process of building relationships in your coaching business.

Client’s First Day: Find the Pain

Coach Compensation: Beyond Dollars Per Hour
Coaches should be paid based on gross revenue, and on clients sticking around.

Coach Compensation: Beyond Dollars Per Hour

Develop an Online Presence: The Importance of Your Website
It’s okay if your website isn’t perfect, but if you build it, people will begin to find you.

Develop an Online Presence: The Importance of Your Website

Developing and Leading Successful Workshops
Teaching others keeps the spark alive behind why you got into the industry in the first place.

Developing and Leading Successful Workshops

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Keystone Habits of a Lean Physique
Our latest podcast tackles sustainable self-development, building habits that translate into training success, and the fitness journey of hypertropy influencer Abel Csabai.

Keystone Habits of a Lean Physique

The Skinny Advantage in Muscle Building
Brad Borland talks about how to build muscle as quickly as possible in the latest Six Pack of Knowledge podcast.

The Skinny Advantage in Muscle Building

The Number 1 Factor That Dictates If You Build Muscle, Strength, and Power
This Six Pack of Knowledge Podcast is about building a resilient body with pain-free training expert, Dr. John Rusin.

The Number 1 Factor That Dictates If You Build Muscle, Strength, and Power

How to Become Ruthlessly Efficient in the Gym
The Six Pack of Knowledge Podcast on how understanding exercise mechanics can make you a gym ninja.

How to Become Ruthlessly Efficient in the Gym

Strategies That Can Take You From Good to Great in the Gym
Take a deep dive into muscle growth strategies, genetics and strength gains with Dr Joel Seedman.

Strategies That Can Take You From Good to Great in the Gym

Strength and Conditioning: Truth and Consequences
A new guest each month, interviewed by Greg Walsh and hosted by Breaking Muscle. This week, challenging the orthodoxy of the fitness industry with the founders of The Sect in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Strength and Conditioning: Truth and Consequences

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Sophia McDermott Drysdale

Sophia McDermott Drysdale

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Bodybuilding, Nutrition, Women's Fitness

Riley Holland

Riley Holland

Mental Health, Neuromuscular Release (NRW)

Michael Hulcher

Michael Hulcher

Coaching, Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting, CrossFit

Tom MacCormick

Tom MacCormick

Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, Sports Science

Mindith Rahmat

Mindith Rahmat

Women's Fitness, Yoga, Natural Movement, Bodyweight Exercise, Kettlebells

Chet Morjaria

Chet Morjaria

Strength Training, Coaching

Mike Samuels

Mike Samuels

Strength Training, Powerlifting

Jesse Irizarry

Jesse Irizarry

Strength and Conditioning, Strength Training

Emily Beers

Emily Beers

Coaching

Dresdin Archibald

Dresdin Archibald

Olympic Weightlifting, Strength and Conditioning

Shane Trotter

Shane Trotter

Strength and Conditioning, Kettlebells, Youth Development

Greg Smith

Greg Smith

Strength & Conditioning, Fitness, Nutrition

Douglas Perry

Douglas Perry

Technology, Cycling, Swimming

James Garland

James Garland

Strength and Conditioning, MMA

Joseph Boffi

Joseph Boffi

Muay Thai, Kettlebells, Coaching

Sima Tamaddon

Sima Tamaddon

Yoga, Mobility & Recovery

Mike Tromello

Mike Tromello

CrossFit, Children's Fitness, Olympic Weightlifting

Tom Kelso

Tom Kelso

Strength and Conditioning

Will Davis

Will Davis

Personal Trainer, Strength Training

Johnnie Perry Jr.

Johnnie Perry Jr.

Personal Training, Nutrition

Coach Ninja

Coach Ninja

Olympic Weightlifting, Strength Training, Strength and Conditioning, Powerlifting

Rocco Venizelos

Rocco Venizelos

Nutrition, Personal Training

Liam "Taku" Bauer

Liam "Taku" Bauer

Strength and Conditioning, Strength Training

Matt Beecroft

Matt Beecroft

Martial Arts, Kettlebells, Health, Fitness, Self-Defense

Shane McLean

Shane McLean

Personal Training

DeShawn Fairbairn

DeShawn Fairbairn

Personal Training, Fencing, Karate

Gareth Kelly

Gareth Kelly

Strength and Conditioning, Gymnastics

Max Gedge

Max Gedge

Strength and Conditioning, Coaching, Exercise Physiology, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Daniel DeBrocke

Daniel DeBrocke

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