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Are You Only Giving Your Clients 30 Percent?
Don't short-change your athletes. Training across a full standing spectrum will increase strength without sacrificing movement and health.
Andrew Read
Pattern Before Power: Movement Quality Basics
Whatever your discipline, movement quality has the biggest impact on whether your training improves or inhibits performance.
Jon Reid
Stability For Symmetry: The Continuum of Performance Rehab
There's a simple and successful method for treating injured athletes. Let me show you how it's done.
Greg Dea
Complex Drills for Better Human Movement
Developing these functional patterns will pay dividends in everything else.
Josh Henkin
The Essence of an Athlete: How Ido Portal Helps Conor McGregor
In the new movement that is movement, improvement is rarely about better coaching. So how does this relationship work so well?
Greg Dea
It Starts With the Squat: Using Orthoses to Correct Position
Using orthoses is a great way to reinforce what the correct positions are, even when you’re not standing there making corrections.
Sean Manseau
A Frank Assessment of the Plank: Just a Way to Burn Time?
Yes, doing the plank is better than sitting on the couch. But the benefits are minimal.
Charles Staley
Safety: The Most Important Part of Choosing a Fitness Program
Are there some exercise programs that are inherently dangerous? The following checklist should help you decide.
Eric C. Stevens
Why Strength Standards Suck (and What You Should Test for Instead)
The problem is, we need to set minimums. We need baselines that we decide are acceptable before we move onto higher and harder training.
Andrew Read
Lessons From Bull Riders: How to Train Strength and Flexibility
An intriguing question from a bull rider got me thinking about how to train for adaptability, not just strength.
Todd Kuslikis
The Root of All Injury: Don't Let Altered Movement Ruin You
Stop acute trauma from causing acute injury by identifying and fixing your movement patterns.
Cassie Dionne
GPP in the Modern World: How to Become an All-Around Athlete
In periodization terms, there are only two phases someone could be in - SPP or GPP. Here's what GPP looks like.
Andrew Read
Be Strong to Be Helpful: Movement Skills Are Survival Skills
Deep down, I believe we all are craving more substance from our fitness.
Danny Clark
What Kevin Durant and the FMS Can Teach Us About Injuries
Make sure you are fully recovered from injuries so you don’t cause more permanent damage.
Craig Marker
What Does "Corrective Exercise" Really Mean?
Corrective exercise is all the rage in fitness today, but how does it best apply to individual programming?
Robert Camacho
When Comfort Is Uncomfortable: You Need Natural Movement
Natural movement can shatter normal gym paradigms and boost your confidence.
Jeff Kuhland
Breaking Your Fall: Gait Mechanics for Injury Prevention
Medical professionals see many patients who have been injured due to slipping on ice. Don't be one of them.
Steve Gangemi
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