While the functional fitness world has been trending toward hundreds of air squats, burpees and lunges for time on repeat for the last six weeks and counting, coach James Fitzgerald warns this is doing ... Continue Reading
10 Tips to Restarting Fitness After Childbirth
No two women are alike, from their bodies to their deliveries to their recovery and subsequently the healing process. And while each person may differ, when woman feels ready to start exercising again ... Continue Reading
Don’t Be an AskHole
Do you ask “strangers” on the internet about your training? Do you post videos and solicit technique advice? I bet you are even the type to follow the sheep with the ideals that suit you best. The comments ... Continue Reading
Training During COVID-19: The Quarantine Machine
While we all try to figure out how to navigate these trying times of lockdowns and social distancing, we seem to have this weird mix of lots of time to train but a lack of options with which to ... Continue Reading
Lockdown Is Temporary, Community Is Forever
As I sit here writing in this cold, empty bathtub, listening to my thoughts echo off the smooth white porcelain cocoon I have built, I am reminded of warm memories from my childhood home. It was a place ... Continue Reading
Hanging On: An Independent Trainer’s COVID-19 Response
I am writing this piece in response to the MindBody article in the coaches-only newsletter. I am writing this piece in response to the MindBody article in the coaches-only newsletter. There were ... Continue Reading
DIY Beast Mode Gear: How to Build Your Own Barbell
There have been plenty of challenges living for the past six years as an American in Japan. First of all, finding shoes my size is a challenge at best and damn near impossible at worst. Finding t-shirts ... Continue Reading
2020: The Year Push-Ups Were First Invented
Great coaches and trainers don't steal. They just take something that was already there and name it after themselves. Yoga too pagan-y for you then, how about mobility? Circuit training too YMCA-y for you ... Continue Reading
Morning Mobility Check-In
Last week, I wrote about how mobility—the ability to move and be moved freely and easily—is not a separate facet of fitness. Rather, mobility is an expression of your fitness, and informs your ... Continue Reading
Training at Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Right now, we all need to stay home, stay safe, stay healthy, and try to stay strong. The final part of that sentence might be something you are anxious about. Many stressed-out people have contacted me ... Continue Reading
The 8-Minute Bodyweight Circuit: Does It Actually Work?
I love research that makes exercise more accessible to everyone. An article published by the American College of Sports Medicine[1] does just that. I love research that makes exercise more accessible ... Continue Reading
Individualizing Training: Structural Balance, Intensity and Autoregulation
Writing programs is easy. You just need to do between 1-20 sets of 1-100 reps per muscle group at between 5-120% of your 1RM and rest for 1-300 minutes between sets. It’s science. This is obviously an ... Continue Reading
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Plank but Were Afraid to Ask
Let’s start with the first and most commonly known thing about the plank and that is how to perform one. A standard plank is performed with arms shoulder-width apart and toes on the ground, raise your body ... Continue Reading
16+ At-Home Workout Plans For All Levels and Ages
It is almost the first day of spring but, unfortunately, it is not a time of celebration or renewal. For many people, a number that increases every day, there is isolation and quarantine while the COVID-19 ... Continue Reading
Training Load: Find Your Right Volume
Which type of athlete are you? The one who never stops training? The athlete who tries to out grind the competition? Or are you the one constantly looking for a way to hack the ... Continue Reading
The Steel Mace: The First 3 Moves to Learn
The steel mace (mace bell or gada) has been used by Hindu warriors for over 2,000 years. It has recently found new popularity in the fitness world for its benefits in strengthening and stabilizing the ... Continue Reading
All Lifts Are Technical So Learn to Do Them Right
Most people don't know how to pick up a heavy box off the ground without straining their back so, why do we think that most people understand the nuances of barbell, kettlebell and, even, dumbbell ... Continue Reading
An Introduction to Running Cadence
Among all things tech-lovers, data junkies, or sports science nerds like myself can track, running cadence is one that can be easily monitored on a GPS device. A 2016 study showed that using a commercially ... Continue Reading
8 Unusual Olympic LIfting Cues That Get Results
Olympic lifting is one of the most high-level, skill-based, athletic activities one can perform. No other style of lifting demands the same level of coordination, concentration, and detail than a heavy ... Continue Reading
Adaptation Is Not a Bad Word, Body Confusion Is
As we move into spring, many of us run the risk of making fatal errors to our training for the remainder of the year, and of those errors program overhaul is one of them. As we move into ... Continue Reading
Why Training Partners Are Essential
Somebody is peculiar who takes on a dangerous trail or scales up the highest peak, without the support of a team and the encouragement of a partner making the trek with them. If some person does hike up ... Continue Reading
Nerding Out on Muscle Growth, Strength, and Rep Schemes
Greg Nuckols is a record-holding powerlifter, fitness writer, podcaster, and all-round training nerd owner of Stronger by Science. He aims to help lifters and coaches to train smarter. In this ... Continue Reading
From Muscle Dysmorphia to Building a World-Class Set of Legs
Adam Bisek is a coach equally at home in person or online. He describes his job as the chance to change lives. To that end, he also believes that personal training should be just as described, ... Continue Reading
The Underpinning Reason That Stops You From Building Muscle
Luke Leaman is a coach, fitness educator and founder of Muscle Nerds, the company he formed after becoming disgruntled with the industry and the lack of empathy and science in it. He is also an acolyte of ... Continue Reading
