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. Post your questions via social media or in the comments ... Continue Reading
Tips for Training BJJ on the Road
One of the best parts of my job as an auditor is that I get to visit companies in lots of different towns and cities. While I enjoy all the new shopping opportunities that provides, my favorite part is ... Continue Reading
How to Succeed in Your First CrossFit Open
Participating in your first CrossFit Games Open is the ultimate learning experience, and this year’s scaled division makes the competition especially inviting for novice CrossFitters. Beginners ... Continue Reading
The 5 Deadliest Kettlebell Sins
When it comes to lifting things to get stronger, there is little difference between one tool and another. The body doesn’t recognize the tool, only how hard it has to work to lift whatever it is you’re ... Continue Reading
Your Yoga Crystal Ball: Stop Injuries Before They Happen
When I was eighteen years old, I stepped out of a booth at a ‘50s diner with a sleepy foot, took two steps, crumpled to the floor, and then hid under a cart containing dozens of kids’ meal containers ... Continue Reading
Active Release Techniques: Putting Tension on Injuries
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following relates the personal experience of a Breaking Muscle contributor, Cara Kobernik, and does not represent an endorsement of ART or of Dr. Brian Gervais by Breaking Muscle. No ... Continue Reading
How Deadlifts Saved My Life
I can’t pinpoint exactly when it began. Depression is strange that way. My family lived in Massachusetts. There were acres of untouched woods behind our house. I loved those woods. They were mine. I ... Continue Reading
Simple Hamstring Exercises to Develop Superhuman Speed
Athletes with game-changing speed are like superheroes - rare, exciting, and mysterious. They might as well be wearing capes as they barrel past their opponents at what appears to be the speed of light. ... Continue Reading
Beyond Crawling: Cross Patterning for Athletes
I’ll be honest - most of my adult life has not been spent dealing with fitness. As a physical therapist, I thought there was obviously a carryover from one area to the other, but until recently I had no ... Continue Reading
You Don’t Need Medication to Maintain a Healthy Low Back
If you’ve ever experienced low back pain, then you know it’s potentially expensive. We miss work, file insurance claims, and seek out countless passive therapies to feel better. On top of that, we end up ... Continue Reading
Don’t Get Stranded On Your Training Plateau
In sport, fitness, and even life, few words are more feared than the word plateau. The frank reality is that one day soon something in your life will get old and boring. Growth will seem to cease, ... Continue Reading
DOMS: Why You’re So Sore and How to Make It Better
You know that moment. You wake up a few days after a workout and think to yourself, "Ah, now I feel it." The technical term for this post-workout evidence of hard effort is delayed onset muscle soreness, ... Continue Reading
Would You Be Better Off Power Jerking?
For most of weightlifting’s history, when athletes have performed the second part of the clean and jerk, they do so by splitting under the barbell - one leg goes forward while the other goes backward in a ... Continue Reading
Don’t Let Mobility Stand In the Way of Your Gains
I come from a background of Russian hardstyle kettlebells and other strongman-style lifts that incorporate your entire kinetic chain. When I use the word "strength," I am referring to functional ability ... Continue Reading
2 Safer Alternatives to the Overhead Swing
Andrew Read once wrote a great article on why the American/overhead swing is wrong. This debate continues with little change in the overhead swing’s status as a staple in CrossFit workouts. This ... Continue Reading
The 25 Rules of Strength Training (Part 2)
Since writing The Rules of Strength Training (Part 1): 25 Things I Have Learned, I’ve learned some more stuff. Actually, I wanted to include many of these points in the first 25, but ran out of ... Continue Reading
Coffee and Overtraining: 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. Post your questions via social media or in the comments ... Continue Reading
Poking the Bear: Is CrossFit HQ the Ultimate Internet Troll?
For as long as I can remember, CrossFit, Inc. has posted non-CrossFit related content on both their website and social media. Before there was such a thing as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, there was ... Continue Reading
Want to Be a Better Runner? Then Slow Down
There’s a well-known Australian track cyclist named Brad McGee. He won the 4000m individual pursuit at the Atlanta Olympics in ’96. For two weeks after he had an elevated resting heart rate. That’s the ... Continue Reading
Yoga and Weight Loss: Healing From the Inside Out
“Yoga body.” It’s a term you hear a lot these days. It might conjure up images of lean legs in yoga pants, six-pack abs pressing up into a handstand, or (we can’t forget) the famous yoga butt. After ... Continue Reading
The Role of a Weightlifting Coach, Ep 10
When it comes to weightlifting coaches, they don't come better than our three panelists for this podcast - Bob Takano, Greg Everett, and Ursula Garza Papandrea. When it comes to weightlifting ... Continue Reading
Shred-telligent Design: How to Ramp Up Your Major Lifts
CLICK FOR 12 WEEKS TO INCREASED MASS AND STRENGTH After hearing for years from trainers, coaches, and therapists that the dynamic warm up is an essential part of any exercise program, everyone finally ... Continue Reading
Pop Up to the Top Challenge – Week 4
Welcome to the Natural Movement section of Breaking Muscle, and week three of our first four-week training plan. It is specifically designed to achieve one of the most difficult, yet rewarding physical ... Continue Reading
From Zero To Ultra in 12 Months: How I Did It
In your fitness life, one of the greatest challenges you can undertake is to run an ultra marathon. While the thought of running a marathon (26.2 miles/42.2 kilometers) is daunting enough for most, signing ... Continue Reading
