Obstacle course racing has exploded in the last decade and is now a sport in its own right. In 2014, 272,752 people participated in a Spartan Race alone - and that doesn't include other popular races like ... Continue Reading
An 8-Week Mobility Program for Masters Olympic Weightlifting
Click Here to Start the 8-Week Masters Weightlifting Program Most masters-aged athletes entering into weightlifting, despite their legal age, are young when it comes to time spent in sport. As a ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Open and the Average Athlete: Is It Worth It?
During this most recent CrossFit Open, I decided to run a little experiment: take three athletes, all from different backgrounds, and measure certain physiological markers as they made their way through ... Continue Reading
A Winner’s Guide to Obstacle Course Racing
Obstacle course racing has exploded in the last decade and is now a sport in its own right. In 2014, 272,752 people participated in a Spartan Race alone - and that doesn't include other popular races like ... Continue Reading
WiFi Weightlifting and the Problem With Online Coaching
As a weightlifting coach, I’m frequently asked about online coaching. But I don’t know of any well-established coaches who are interested in coaching this way, and in fact, I’m not sure what the term ... Continue Reading
Increase Your Fast-Twitch Potential With Isometrics
The idea of building speed using exercises that don’t require you to move may seem asinine to you, but you would be wrong. Isometric exercises for speed are a phenomenal addition to your overall agility ... Continue Reading
12 Reps – The Breaking Muscle Digest – Vol. 1, Issue 14
Sorry for the break, we've been incredibly busy! Between the site redesign, building the coaching sub-site, setting up the new subscription site for athletes, and getting ready to roll out the new Size or ... Continue Reading
Foam Roller vs. PNF Purgatory: Which One Will Save You?
In almost every gym I visit, I see people hanging out in “foam roller purgatory.” This term is not meant to disparage foam rollers, as I have spent many hours doing my penance. However, could we spend our ... Continue Reading
How to Be an Expert: Knowing You Know Nothing is Everything
You’ve been lifting a while now. It feels like you’ve been training for ages, but in actual fact it’s only been a year or two. You’ve made fantastic progress, and you are leaps and bounds ahead of the new ... Continue Reading
I Want a Flat Stomach: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get to the bottom of the biggest questions in health and training. Question #1: I Want a Flat Stomach READER: I’m trying ... Continue Reading
Accelerate Your Fat Loss With Cinco Sets
Cardio isn’t fun. Whoever says they enjoy plugging away on the treadmill for thirty minutes to an hour is lying (note: enjoying activities you partake in while doing cardio, i.e. listening to podcasts and ... Continue Reading
3 Unconventional Exercises to Eliminate Achilles Pain
Achilles pain can be debilitating, frustrating, often long lasting. Traditional exercises for this pain usually include passively stretching your calves with a towel, going against a wall to stretch, and ... Continue Reading
Take Action: Speak Out Against Sexual Misconduct in Yoga
About a month into my marriage, my husband and I took a yoga class together with a fairly well known and respected teacher. Halfway into the class, the teacher, who was male, straddled over me in bridge ... Continue Reading
What Julie Foucher’s Training Says About Her Achilles Injury
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.” - Archilochus If you followed the CrossFit Super Regional competitions, you're probably aware that Julie Foucher ... Continue Reading
3 Not-So-Obvious Exercises to Combat Achilles Pain
Achilles pain can be debilitating, frustrating, often long lasting. Traditional exercises for this pain usually include passively stretching your calves with a towel, going against a wall to stretch, and ... Continue Reading
Chore Training: How to Move More and Have a Really Clean House
If you work a lot, have kids, go to school, or have life obligations that give you the sense you cannot train/exercise/practice/move - then you are not alone. I think a lot of people would do something if ... Continue Reading
How to Get Strongman Strong With the Bent Press
<strong">The bent press is a unique lift that was once quite famous due to the strongmen of the golden era. But as it is quite technical, it was considered a trick lift by some and became largely ... Continue Reading
Submission Series Pro: American Idol, Jiu Jistu Style
Simon Cowell: “I like shows where somebody isn’t a professional, has a talent, isn’t aware of it, has a normal job, and then you see something else. I like that. And that’s what that guy ... Continue Reading
Darwinian Fitness: Don’t Become a Victim of Natural Selection
The transformation of the black peppered moth during the Industrial Revolution is the ubiquitous example of evolution in action. Coal-burning factories in English cities sprayed black soot into the air ... Continue Reading
Stay Safe and Avoid Chafe: 5 Things Not to Wear on Your Bike
If you’ve just taken cycling back up for the first time since you were younger, you may quickly discover it is not such a comfortable experience as you recall. And there are few things worse than being in ... Continue Reading
Escape the “Busy” Trap and Find Time to Exercise
You’ve heard them. Maybe you’ve even used them. Excuses to avoid the one thing you know you should do - exercise. While it is so easy to make or find an excuse to not work out, it can sometimes be not so ... Continue Reading
Pushing Through Pain: Success Through Suffering
When it comes to hard work, perspective is everything. Do you work as hard as you think you do? When you go the gym, are you giving it everything you have or are you just showing up? That's me. How much ... Continue Reading
The 1st Pull In Weightlifting: Go Fast Or Slow?
As I write this, I have just returned from another Canadian Senior Weightlifting Championship. While I was there, I spoke with a former training partner who is now perhaps the world’s foremost ... Continue Reading
Quitting Vegetarian: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get to the bottom of the biggest questions in health and training. Question #1: The Dreaded Dot Drill READER: When I do ... Continue Reading
