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Nature's Two Most Powerful Exercise Recovery Tools
In the third part of our series on exercise recovery, we look at how to maximize recovery and build more lean muscle with the two most overlooked tools in your arsenal.

Nature's Two Most Powerful Exercise Recovery Tools

The Importance of Structured Training Programs in Recovery
Part two of four in our recover series will help you build a program that creates the most potential for balancing a high-quality training stimulus with optimal recovery capacity.

The Importance of Structured Training Programs in Recovery

Train Hard, Recover Harder
Part one of this four-part series to improve your recovery will concentrate on why stress is a double-edged sword and how to manage it.

Train Hard, Recover Harder

The Njoie Nforce Percussion Massage Gun
Percussive massage guns can cost upwards of $500 but there are more affordable variants that may suit casual users better.

The Njoie Nforce Percussion Massage Gun

How to Develop a Coaching Career Doing What You Love
Joe doesn’t offer short-cuts or hacks, but his advice is full of genuine advice that could help you develop the business and lifestyle you want

How to Develop a Coaching Career Doing What You Love

The Role of Micronutrients in Body Recomposition
Micronutrients are necessary for your body to perform optimally, avoid adverse side effects, and keep your fitness goals in reach.

The Role of Micronutrients in Body Recomposition

I Was Wrong
After some soul searching, I hope you will set your ego aside and admit that some of the things you've been doing may be holding you and your clients back.

I Was Wrong

Strength Training and the Efficacy of Electromyography (EMG)
This article will discuss kinesiological EMG only as its function relates to training regimes, voluntary neuromuscular activation, and functional movements.

Strength Training and the Efficacy of Electromyography (EMG)

How I Found CrossFit and Community During Lockdown
I was looking for the discipline of martial arts and a way to get outside of my comfort zone during lockdown.

How I Found CrossFit and Community During Lockdown

How to Snack Fat
If you're into a keto diet, this might be the snacking hack you were looking for.

How to Snack Fat

Building a CrossFit Body
Coach Mike Tromello talks about how to look and perform like an elite athlete.

Building a CrossFit Body

A Crispy Seaweed Treat for Vegan Athletes
Seaweed may be a vegan, gluten-free superfood, but it also tastes great.

A Crispy Seaweed Treat for Vegan Athletes

Health, Fitness and the Tao of Functional Bodybuilding
Bring bodybuilding principles to functional resistance training by focusing on quality of movement rather than intensity.

Health, Fitness and the Tao of Functional Bodybuilding

A Successful Coach or Trainer Needs Emotional Intelligence
The ability to perceive others' emotions and utilize that information in your coaching and training methods may be more important than you think.

A Successful Coach or Trainer Needs Emotional Intelligence

The Dan John Guide To A Lifting Career
A master of coaching for coaches helps you discover how your training should change at each point in your life.

The Dan John Guide To A Lifting Career

The Push Press To Save Your Shoulders
When you learn the push press, you learn how you can and should move in one coordinated athletic effort to move something heavy.

The Push Press To Save Your Shoulders

Athletics Versus Aesthetics: What’s the Difference?
How to differentiate between building muscle for looks and building muscle for function.

Athletics Versus Aesthetics: What’s the Difference?

Understanding Maximum Heart Rate
Monitoring your heart rate may improve your overall health and performance, so my suggestion to anybody trying to nail down their MHR is to use multiple methods and monitor your results.

Understanding Maximum Heart Rate

28 Day Clean Eating Challenge - Real Food. Real Health. Real Results.

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The Hemp Plant's Untapped Potential
Despite initially being skeptical of CBD oil, he took the plunge and began using it, and had such positive results he began researching it extensively.

The Hemp Plant's Untapped Potential

10 At-Home Exercises For Women That Actually Work
Even though you are confined to the four walls of your home, do not let this confinement stop you from following and achieving your fitness goals.

10 At-Home Exercises For Women That Actually Work

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10 No Equipment Needed Exercises for Strong Legs

Physical Readiness for Firefighters: 12 Week Training Plan

Top 10 Foods to Gain Muscle Mass

How to Self-Diagnose Your Shoulder Pain

The Ultimate 90-Day Bodyweight Training Plan

Butt-ology 101: How to Enhance Your Gluteal Muscles

4 Signs You Are Taking Too Many Probiotics

7 Exercises to Maximize Hand, Wrist, and Forearm Strength

Successful Pull Ups for Beginners: Say No to Bands

The Physiological Effects of Face Masks During Workouts
Masking is a fact of life during the era of Covid-19 but how do they impact strenuous exercise?

The Physiological Effects of Face Masks During Workouts

How to Learn a Handstand and Fall Less
Progress in handstands and calisthenics is determined by how strong your joints and tendons become because these small areas have to withstand the load and force passing through them.

How to Learn a Handstand and Fall Less

The World’s Strongest 70-Year Old
A lifetime of lessons from a lifting legend, Odd Haugen, on what it takes to get to the top and how to stay there.

The World’s Strongest 70-Year Old

Mapping Out Muscle Gain
How to use the Primer-Build-Solidify System to Plan Effective Long-Term, Muscle Building Training

Mapping Out Muscle Gain

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Hydrow Review - Total Body Home Happiness
This ain't your grandma's home gym. Technology is changing the dynamics of at home workouts. It couldn't happen sooner.

Hydrow Review - Total Body Home Happiness

A Weighted Vest for Beginners
Zelus has produced a comfortable and solid 12 lb weighted vest for beginners.

A Weighted Vest for Beginners

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Keep Track of Your Nutrition On the Go

Can Colostrum Make A Difference In Your Life?

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

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

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

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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

Food Intolerances: Should I Get Tested?
The companies that continue to promote the IgG blood tests either do not fully understand the function of the IgG antibody or worse, they do and are continuing to sell their product anyway.

Food Intolerances: Should I Get Tested?

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

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

MoreCoaches & Trainers

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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Failure Doesn't Exist
Mater motivator Ray ''Cash'' Care tells you how to harness your pain and build belief in yourself to conquer life, and he will get in your face until you do it.

Failure Doesn't Exist

A Roadmap to Success for Fitness Professional
Mark Coles teaches us lessons from lifting that transfer to business and beyond.

A Roadmap to Success for Fitness Professional

How to Build a Brand in the Fitness Industry

The Trainer Who Trains the Trainers
Tom Purvis is the guy the experts go to for advice.

The Trainer Who Trains the Trainers

The Move Well Project
This week's guest is Chris Peil, a sports rehabilitation expert, who helps Olympians and the World’s Strongest Man get out of pain and back to performing at their best.

The Move Well Project

The Muscle Lab is Open
Cody Haun is the epitome of a 21st century strength scientists and he's striking out on his own.

The Muscle Lab is Open

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Tom MacCormick

Tom MacCormick

Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, Sports Science

Solly Muwaniri

Solly Muwaniri

Personal Training, Bodyweight Training

Gianni Handoko

Gianni Handoko

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Calisthenics, CrossFit

Jimmy Pritchard

Jimmy Pritchard

Strength & Conditioning, Exercise Science

DeShawn Fairbairn

DeShawn Fairbairn

Personal Training, Fencing, Karate

Chris Holder

Chris Holder

Kettlebells, Strength and Conditioning, Martial Arts

Douglas Perry

Douglas Perry

Technology, Cycling, Swimming

Emily Beers

Emily Beers

Coaching

Daniel DeBrocke

Daniel DeBrocke

Jesse Irizarry

Jesse Irizarry

Strength and Conditioning, Strength Training

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