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About Shane Trotter

Shane Trotter

Athlete Development

  • Plan to Win: Speed, Stamina, and Agility for Sport

Fitness

  • Keep a Kettlebell At Your Desk: The Four Alarm Kettlebell Program
  • Go Beyond the 5 Fundamental Movement Patterns
  • How to Form Tough Identities That Propel Behavioral Change
  • A Guide to Optimize Self-Development Habits
  • What Every Coach Should Know About Speed and Conditioning
  • Tapping Into the Power of Identity Is the Secret to Sustainable Fitness
  • Train Toughness Before It’s Too Late
  • A Guide to Proper Footwear Selection for Athletes
  • 12 Rules to Optimize Your Health for a 21st Century Mindset
  • A Guide to Recovery and Training for Coaches and Parents
  • I Challenge You to Train Like a Human
  • Why Gyms Are Coming Back More Essential Than Ever
  • Train the Foundation of Success: Willpower
  • How to Fit Exercise Into Every Day
  • Prepare for Takeoff With the Deadlift Checklist
  • Present Self, Future Self, and the Ingredients of Successful Fitness Change
  • The Real Reason You Should Fast for the Holidays
  • Prime Your New Year’s Resolution Now For a Change That Actually Sticks
  • You Can’t Solve the Obesity Epidemic If You Can’t Discuss it
  • A Daily 6 Exercise Circuit for Youth Development
  • The Fingertip Push-Up Training Plan
  • For Best Results Train the Mind, Body, and Emotion
  • How to Value Your Health
  • The 30-Day Challenge that Actually Works
  • No-Equipment Needed Upper Body Pulls
  • How to Say No: A Guide to Guilt and Eating
  • Whys Are For Beginners
  • Be a Human, Carry a Human
  • Don’t Want to Workout? We’ve Got Just the Plan!
  • You are the Problem, Not the Fitness Industry
  • How and Why to Single Leg Romanian Deadlift
  • How to Put Your Body to Use for a Good Cause
  • The Bathroom Break Kettlebell Strength Plan
  • Double Compound Movements
  • Preserve the Habit at All Costs: Why You Should Work Out Every Day
  • The Gut Check: Mental Strength Through Physical Training
  • The Locomotion Workout
  • Perfecting the Push-Up and Fixing The Common Faults
  • Resistance and Adaptation: Is Your Environment Weakening You?
  • Never Eat Sweets Alone
  • Auto-Regulation, HRV, and the Unplugged Approach
  • 10 Transformational Habits That Really Force a Change
  • Eliminate Options: Driving Action With a Strong Default Mode
  • Go Ahead, Jump: Functional Agility Training
  • Sprint: Rediscover the Most Essential Lower Body Exercise
  • Strong Parents, Strong Kids – Part 2
  • Free Yourself Through Imposing Strict Limits
  • Humans, You Must Be Able to Carry
  • Step Into the Arena Part II: You Need a Team
  • Step Into the Arena Part I: Shape Fitness to Meet Modern Needs
  • Complacency or Tenacity: It’s as Simple as What You Praise
  • Choose the Challenge
  • A Cautionary Tale of Modern Youth Development
  • Use Fitness to Counteract Automation
  • Put Yourself First for All the Right Reasons
  • Strong Parents, Strong Kids
  • 6 Unhealthy Norms Plaguing Us All
  • Defensive Strength for Women: The Power of a Push
  • I Wish I Could Do That
  • 3 Core Habits that Amplify Life
  • Breaking the Mold
  • The State of Our Union’s Children
  • Training: Commune with a Deeper Humanity
  • Goodbye Car: Dreams of Health and Wealth
  • Raise Your Ceiling
  • Toddler Fitness Is the Best Fitness
  • The 3 Day Stoic Holiday Challenge
  • Quality Over Quantity; Process Over Outcome
  • Bruce Lee’s 3-Minute Workout
  • Seasonal Weight Gain: A Balanced Approach to the Holidays
  • Are You Self Mastered or a Servant of Impluse?
  • Parents, You Must Find Time for Fitness
  • Creating Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World
  • Montaigne and the Superiority of Wisdom in Health
  • Enter Discomfort: The Resiliency Training Program
  • Rep Tempo: Lay the Foundation for Great Workouts
  • A Sustainable Approach to Gaining Muscle
  • You Have Time for Your Health
  • Tragic Death of a College Athlete Demands Balancing Safety and Essential Resiliency
  • Back to the Grind: Your Guide to Crushing the Transition to a New Season
  • The Benefits of Eating with Your Non-Dominant Hand
  • Don’t Be a Wimp; Train Your Willpower
  • Au Naturel: A Simplified Approach to Health
  • Grow or Decay: Determine Your Sustainable Fitness
  • Simple Health Changes: The Ideal Versus the Reality
  • You Are the Solution to Your Own Situation
  • Go Wild: Fight the Domestication of Fitness
  • Over Specialization Versus Long Term Development
  • The Only 2 Movement Skills You Need to Train
  • Take Time to Understand the Why
  • Why Is It All Or Nothing When It Comes to Wellness?
  • 3 Summer Challenges That Will Shift Your Fitness Approach
  • Why We Are Drowning In the Western Diet
  • Soda Is Cigarettes: The Need for Clearer Villains
  • Physical Morality: Our Obligation to Strengthen Our Bodies
  • Try Finding Strength and Fitness in Everyday Life
  • Earn the Weekend with a Gut Check
  • The Auto-Regulated Plan for Lifetime Fitness
  • When Healthy Habit Becomes Passionless Routine
  • How Much Does Happiness Weigh?
  • Community: The Real Fitness X-Factor
  • The Definitive Guide to Picking a Sports Performance Trainer
  • Simple Rules for Crushing Health and Life
  • Stuck? Try Doing It Right
  • Money, Race, Gender, and Their Impact on Obesity
  • Repetition is the Mother of All Learning
  • Moving Beyond Your Daily Exercise
  • Physical Health Is Mental Health
  • The Anywhere, Anytime Program for Lifelong Fitness
  • The New Core Curriculum for a Healthier Future
  • How We Can Combat the Saboteurs of Our Health
  • How to Talk to a Fitness Newby
  • The Cures That Are Killing Us
  • The Five-Alarm Method to Sneak In Your Daily Workout
  • We Used to Be Humans: Practical Strategies to Combat Tech Addiction
  • 4 Steps to Making Fitness Stick For Life
  • The Saboteurs of Health in America
  • Go Back to School on the Basics
  • Why Strength Still Matters in the Modern World
  • Rekindle the Lost Virtue of Toughness
  • Give Yourself the Gift of a Home Gym
  • Whatever Your Goal, the Answer Is Play
  • It’s Movember: Why Men Are Being Left Behind
  • Embrace Your Human Animal
  • Train Your Breath to Multiply Your Fitness
  • Learning the Ropes
  • The Wonderful, Awful RKC Snatch Test
  • Physical Illiteracy: The Costs of Being Less Human
  • How Fitness Can Help Heal a Fractured Society
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge
  • Fit-Shaming: Why Health Must Be a Community Dialogue
  • The Most Physically and Mentally Unhealthy Generation in History
  • When It’s Time to Call In the Expert
  • You Don’t Need a Pro – Just Go!
  • It Isn’t Fat Shaming: How Protecting Feelings Hurts Health
  • The Perils and Pitfalls of Fitness Absolutes
  • Being Fit Isn’t Easy for Anybody, Even the Pros
  • The Squat Progression Guide
  • How the NCAA Can Fix Youth Athletics
  • Progression and the Hierarchy of Needs
  • Sixteen Going on Sixty – Fitness in Decline for the Young
  • In an Obese World Fitness is Counter-Culture
  • Money Is Not the Solution: You Are
  • CrossFit: an Outsider’s Perspective on Sport Versus Fitness
  • The Weekender Recovery Mobilization
  • 14 Books to Train Your Athletic Mind This Summer
  • Wake Up and Move
  • How Do You Measure Success?
  • Young Athletes Must Hip Hinge
  • Join the United Tribe of Fitness
  • Goldilocks and the Three (Chicago) Bears
  • Invest Your Summer in Play and Skill Building
  • The Fallacies that Dominate Youth Athletic Training
  • The Foundation of the Lifelong Athlete
  • The Tiger Woods Model Is Not for Your Kid
  • Painless Strength for the Hyper Immobile
  • Should You Let Your Kids Go Full Contact in Football?
  • Please, Parents, Give Positive Nutrition Exposure to Your Kids
  • Why Everyone Needs to Meditate
  • Physical Education to Counter Our Culture
  • The Essentialists: Brad Borland
  • The Bold Spirit Physical Education System
  • The Essentialists: Brandon Marcello
  • Can We Turn Couch Potato Kids into Athletes?
  • The Essentialists: Pete Hitzeman
  • Train Your Perception to Dominate Adversity
  • The Essentialists: Chris Holder
  • How to Define and Act on Your Values
  • The Essentialists: Chandler Stevens
  • Change Your Thoughts to Crush Your Goals
  • Performance Dining: Re-Designing Eating For Education
  • Find the Foundation of Your Purpose
  • The Gifts of Mortality and Self Discovery
  • Passion and Purpose: Building the Bold Spirit
  • Parenting Strategies for Healthier Kids
  • Filling the Gaps in Education with Physical Fitness
  • The Values of Inspired Human Development
  • The Heroic Training Template
  • How Delayed Gratification Shapes Your Health
  • Creating the Life Skill of Delayed Gratification
  • PE: Literacy For The Body
  • A Heroic Nation’s P.E. Curriculum
  • Education Reform to Create a Nation of Heroes
  • Make the Switch to Better Habits and Mindset
  • The Middle School Block Zero Strength Program
  • The Epidemic of Fairness
  • The Exploitation of Youth Athletes
  • Protect Your Kids From the Danger of Taking No Risks
  • The Gaps in Your Training Aren’t in the Gym
  • Chasing Rabbits to the NFL: Lessons From Muck City
  • Athletic Training for Pre-Adolescents
  • Life Lessons From the Weight Room
  • A Healthy Nation Must Start at School
  • It’s Time to Reform America’s Bad Habit Factories
  • The Myth of More Is Better

Healthy Eating

  • Useful Shame: Countering Junk Food and Smartphone Addiction
  • Distortion: How Poor Early Nutritional Experiences Set us up for Failure
  • Anti-Diet Common Sense: The Banana is Not Making You Fat
  • Family Nutrition Made Easy: Beans and Brown Rice
  • Steel Cut Oats: Healthy Breakfast for the Whole Family
  • Your Junk Food Addiction Is No Coincidence
  • Cheap, Healthy Fuel for Athletes
  • The Only Diet That Works

Workouts

  • Classical P.E. For All: A Fast, Effective, Bodyweight Program
  • 28 Day Anti-Fragile Human Challenge
  • The Chief Habit: Your Ten-Minute Morning Fitness Plan
  • The Four Alarm Workout For Powerful, Portable Fitness
  • Workouts in a Box: Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Routines
  • From the Couch to Crushing It: A 4 Week Plan to Get Moving
  • Walls, Bands, and Benches: Adaptable Workouts for Chaos, Limitation, and Variety
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 11
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 10
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 9
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 8
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 7
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 6
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 5
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 4
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 3
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 2
  • Fit for the Holidays Challenge – Week 1
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