Supporting your own bodyweight, whether while standing on your feet, hands, or a combination of both, is at the heart of the physical yoga practice. With no other weight to move through space, your body ... Continue Reading
5 Inexpensive Supplements to Jack Up Your Performance
In my last article, I discussed supplements that assist with overall nutrition and wellness. These supplements focused on building a foundation of overall health - simple vitamins and minerals that help ... Continue Reading
5 Ways Coaches Can Make Our World Better
In 2015 the world of sport was shaken by many societal challenges. The ongoing tragedy of exploitation and deaths of workers in construction of stadiums in Qatar, plus the corruption scandal enveloping ... Continue Reading
Antifragility: Learn to Thrive Under Pressure
In my first article on choking, we discussed how overthinking gets in the way of ingrained movement patterns. An example of this is the baseball player throwing the ball in the dirt. When thinking stops, ... Continue Reading
You Are Not a Bodybuilder (So Don’t Train Like One)
In the health and fitness world today, weight training is accepted by all. This was not always true. Many of us old-timers had to continually justify our use of the iron. We all remember telling everybody ... Continue Reading
Why Froning Is Not the Fittest Man in History
CrossFit, Inc. recently posted this on their Facebook Page, promising that “The documentary you've been waiting for," Froning: The Fittest Man in History would finally be available on iTunes on October ... Continue Reading
Rich Froning Is Not the Fittest Man In History
CrossFit, Inc. recently posted this on their Facebook Page, promising that “The documentary you've been waiting for," Froning: The Fittest Man in History would finally be available on iTunes on October ... Continue Reading
A Frank Assessment of the Plank: Just a Way to Burn Time?
Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get some real perspective regarding health and training. Please post feedback or questions to Charles diretly in the comments ... Continue Reading
Movement 101: Standards for Movement Quality
When I used to teach personal training at a college in Australia, there was this stupid notion that certain exercises were for beginners and others for advanced clients. The fitness industry in Australia ... Continue Reading
Let Go of Perfect: How to Find Consistency in Your Training
Have you been constantly putting something off that is important to you simply because “it isn’t a good time?” If it is important to you, find the time. Time will never present itself in a neat, ... Continue Reading
Safety: The Most Important Part of Choosing a Fitness Program
The most dangerous thing you do every day is (probably) driving your car. Yet few give driving a second thought because it gets us where we need to go. Similarly, most of us need to reach a certain ... Continue Reading
Unleash Hellacious Power With the Tall Kneeling Unilateral Pull
Power lives in the transverse plane. If you want to unleash strength, power, and force you must harness control of rotation. The keyword here is control - concentric and eccentric control. The ... Continue Reading
Skill Juggling: How the Jack of All Trades Improves… All Trades
In MovNat training, or training from any generalist perspective, we all come across the problem of how to juggle all of these different skills. How do we improve our running, crawling, carrying, climbing, ... Continue Reading
2 Kettlebell Exercises to Create Incredible Trunk Power
What would you say about an exercise that will increase your work capacity, strengthen your trunk muscles and your hips, build your biceps, create incredible trunk and single leg rotational explosive ... Continue Reading
Winter Is Coming: Time to Up Your Warm-Up Game
Winter is coming. With cold weather on its way, your warm up is about to become even more important. That brisk fall feeling is about to usher in a season of tight, cold muscles and decreased mobility. For ... Continue Reading
3 of the Best: This Week’s Top Articles, Vol. 1
Welcome to our brand new weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Sunday, we'll post up Breaking Muscle's top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven ... Continue Reading
Impact Forces: Simple Exercises to Strengthen Your Feet, Part 3
In part one of this series I showed you what impact forces are and why they are important. In part two I explained how impact forces relate to common lower leg injuries, and how you can prevent these ... Continue Reading
Ancient Indian Exercises to Unleash Your True Strength
During this and my next few articles, I will explain the incredible ancient exercises of the Kushti Wrestlers of Northern India and how to perform them. They are unique exercises, with far-reaching ... Continue Reading
Body Image Matters: Your Relationship to Weight Loss
The Fine Line Between Weight and Body Image The relationship between weight gain or loss and body image is complex and not well understood. On one hand, having a self-identity tied too closely to a flawed ... Continue Reading
5 Reasons Your Friends and Family Don’t Listen to You About Health
You just know your friend or family member could benefit from making simple changes to their training or nutrition, but they seem resistant to it. It is so obvious to you that lifting weights could get rid ... Continue Reading
Why Do We Choke? Discussing Performance-Related Stress
Watching an athlete choke can be one of the most difficult, and at the same time, engaging moments to witness. Like watching the scene of a car accident, we just can’t look away. What happens to athletes ... Continue Reading
The Real Reason Your Pain Is Holding You Back
Being injured sucks. I say it all the time to patients in my clinic. It’s even written on our promotional t-shirts. It’s even worse when an injury produces a significant amount of pain. Pain has a way of ... Continue Reading
Unleash Your True Strength: What We Can Learn From the Ancients
During this and my next few articles, I will explain the incredible ancient exercises of the Kushti Wrestlers of Northern India and how to perform them. They are unique exercises, with far-reaching ... Continue Reading
Use the Scientific Method to Take Control of Your Training
Proper strength programming is both an art and a science. An artistic science, if you will. We have access to an immense amount of time-tested methods backed by science. But we also have the realities of ... Continue Reading
