The shoulder. Maybe it isn’t the greatest design out there, but it does allow people to do some pretty amazing things. When you think about which joints in the human body are most prone to injury, there’s ... Continue Reading
Overhead Stability: A Strength Training Must
In this video tutorial, filmed at an active and noisy Precision CrossFit, I am going to introduce a series of movements that are based on creating overhead stability. Overhead stability is really lost ... Continue Reading
Train the Foundation of Success: Willpower
So many of our behaviors are the default of a faulty environmental set-up. An alarm, a pre-staged gym bag, and a drawer full of healthy snacks can go a long way. But, say your environment is designed to ... Continue Reading
5 Weight Loss Principles That Say It All
Weight loss is very important for boxers if they want to successfully make weight for an upcoming bout. Weight loss is very important for boxers if they want to successfully make weight for an ... Continue Reading
A Comprehensive Guide to Unilateral Training for Injury-Free Training and Performance
Getting strong is pretty simple: move big weight in the classic compound lifts—the deadlift, back squat, bench press, and overhead military press. If you can put up big numbers in those lifts, ... Continue Reading
Strength Routines for Developing a Strong and Healthy Upper Back
A strong upper back is vital to minimize shoulder joint and shoulder girdle injuries. Many athletes and training enthusiasts love the pressing and pushing exercises: bench press, incline press, decline ... Continue Reading
The 4-Hour Fat Loss Elixir For Busy Lifters
Years ago, you were young with little responsibility. You wanted to pack on muscle, shed fat, and gain superhuman strength. You trained six days a week for two hours at a time. You felt ... Continue Reading
Determining Heavy Loads and Understanding Intensity in Weight Lifting
Many books on weight training will have chapters on intensity and its importance. They describe 100% intensity as being whatever weight one can only do one rep of within a certain exercise. If you can do ... Continue Reading
Vision Drills for Better Performance in Physical Movement
All that you have ever experienced, will ever experience, all the exercises or personal bests you have ever pulled off have started and ended in your brain. All movement, skill, thought, and ... Continue Reading
Getting Bigger, Getting Stronger, Getting Smarter
Daniel DeBrocke is a strength and conditioning coach who primarily works with powerlifters and is an educator who works hard to share his knowledge without asking for anything in return. As a competitive ... Continue Reading
How to Fit Exercise Into Every Day
I have a two-year-old son, a one-year-old baby girl, a beautiful wife who deserves my time, a book I’m finishing, a full-time job, and an online blog and lifestyle development business. In addition to ... Continue Reading
The Gap Between Health and Fitness
Health and fitness are often lumped together but there’s a difference—and sometimes it’s a sizeable gap. Let's explore the working definition of each: Health: A state of optimal physical, ... Continue Reading
Balance Across Disciplines Can Make You Great
"The genius is the one most like himself." - Thelonius Monk I was always told to pick one thing. Pick one major in college to define my life, one career to put all my effort into, one way to make a ... Continue Reading
The 3 Laws of Muscle Activation in Resistance Training
Years and years of research have elapsed in the pursuit to completely understand the intricacies of human skeletal muscle contraction.It has included human, amphibian, and feline muscle biopsies, ... Continue Reading
Staying On During Your Off-Season
The off-season is the time period between post-competition and the next event. For bodybuilding and physique enthusiasts it is often termed as the bulking period, a time when you eat and lift heavy with ... Continue Reading
Deloading 101: What Is a Deload and How Do You Do It?
What the Heck Is a Deload? Plain and simple, a deload is a short planned period of recovery. You take your training slightly lighter, maybe workout a little less, and generally just ease things back. A ... Continue Reading
3 Strategies for Optimizing Mechanical Tension
While chasing the pump is undoubtedly an effective way to stimulate hypertrophy, it’s not the only way to make your muscles grow. Mechanical tension, the force created when a muscle contracts isotonically ... Continue Reading
Write Your Training Programs Like a Book
Do you remember your high school English class? When your teacher first taught you how to write an essay, they probably began first with how to create an outline. Once you format your outline, it will be ... Continue Reading
Prepare for Takeoff With the Deadlift Checklist
The deadlift is an essential human skill. Learn to deadlift well, and you’ll save yourself years of back pain from lifting babies and groceries off the floor wrong. Better still, learn to hinge and then ... Continue Reading
6 Essential Mindsets For Getting Back In Shape
Getting back in shape is a specific challenge that requires specific mindsets. Trust me, I’ve done it a bunch of times. Back in my twenties, I’d go hard for a year or two with something like boxing or ... Continue Reading
Controlling the Chaos of Training in CrossFit
No better way to kick of 2020's podcasts than with one a coach who has gained worldwide respect because of the effort he has shown in pursuing and realizing the best in strength and conditioning ... Continue Reading
5 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Weightlifting Belt
Ask half a dozen seasoned lifters about what belt they wear and why, and you will probably get back just as many different answers. In fact, you will probably get back more answers than the questions you ... Continue Reading
3 Tips to Getting Through Plateaus in the Gym
No one joins the gym to make zero progress. It’s unlikely that anyone signed up with the intention of busting their gut every single week but having very little to show for it. People join gyms to ... Continue Reading
Nothing Will Change This Year If You Don’t
I’m not going to talk about SMART goal setting or the usual "new year, new me" bullshit. Like you, I have seen it every year for a long time. In fact, 2020 marks my 22nd year in the fitness industry. ... Continue Reading
