Here’s some food for thought from James FitzGerald, the 2007 CrossFit games champion, about what to consider to maximize the next 320 days of training for next year's CrossFit Open.

Here are three steps you may not have considered to change your clients' mindset and get them out of pain long-term.

The fourth part in our exercise recovery series will help you elicit that last bit of recovery capacity with active and passive strategies.

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 ability to perceive others' emotions and utilize that information in your coaching and training methods may be more important than you think.

There is a time and place to empty the tank and display your absolute end degrees of strength, however, nobody ever wins a weight room training championship.

The complexity of fully training the back is illustrated by the vast array of machines and attachments available.

It is important to have a firm understanding of not only how to implement a training plan, but also how to track and change it over time.

Periodization is the ultimate tool you can use to reach your goals.

A training cycle, like a story, has a beginning, middle, and end, and each has elements that are necessary for it to work.

You change as you lift over time and you change as you age. There's no template for life.

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

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?

When you need to add some size to your frame as fast as possible.

Improvement only comes from letting go of focus on outcomes and learning to experience the sense of flow that drives quality.

By varying your exercises strategically not only will you gain strength and muscle faster, but you lay the platform for continued long-term progress over successive phases.

The cost of not honoring our bio-evolutionary needs is a near certain path toward mental angst and physical deterioration.