Halloween has come and gone and we are officially into the holiday season. Two months of spending and gorging yourself silly which eventually leads to resolution season, where you worry about whatever ... Continue Reading
Manual Resistance Dumbbell Flyes
The limitation of many dumbbell (DB) isolation exercises is the fact that resistance profile of the exercises does not match up to the muscle’s strength curve. This is especially the case in flye patterns. ... Continue Reading
5 Tips to Get Fit Over 50
We all have that moment when we realize that we need to take better care of ourselves. For many of my clients, this moment comes sometime in their 50s. When this moment occurs later in your life, it is ... Continue Reading
How to Use Ascending Reps to Build Size and Strength
Assuming that building strength and muscle ranks highly among your training priorities, then you may be interested to learn about ascending reps (also known as ladders). What are ascending ... Continue Reading
How to Get That Elusive Spark
The first gym I trained at looked like a set from a 80's action movie. From the outside, it looked like an old stone mill. Every member was given a key to get in and train whatever time of day or night you ... Continue Reading
The No Excuse Deck of Cards Bodyweight Workout
What if you have a few minutes only, a little time before you get back to work, pick up the kids, go to your next appointment? Do you get in a quick workout in or scroll through the posts on your ... Continue Reading
Double Your Leg Strength One Leg at a Time
Developing explosive power for athletes should logically entail pure single-leg exercises. Simply put, when you're in a sport, any sport, you are usually creating power and taking off from one leg anyhow. ... Continue Reading
5 Foolproof Ways to Build Muscular Shoulders
Your shoulders say everything about you—from the mid-level office employee sitting in his cubicle 9 to 5 with rounded shoulders to the powerful high-level executive standing erect as he leads meetings—your ... Continue Reading
Build a Bigger Back With This Single Arm Breakthrough
If you struggle to build a thick, wide back it is probably not because your program sucks. The answer is likely much simpler than that—your technique is crap and you cannot develop a mind-muscle connection ... Continue Reading
15 Exercise Tips For People Over 50
Our bodies begin to change drastically after fifty: a more rapid decline in bone density and a greater loss in coordination and motor control. Fortunately, in most cases, all of these things can be slowed ... Continue Reading
You Shouldn’t Train Like the Pros to Build Muscle
Most men come to the gym with the goal of improving their aesthetics. Often they look for guidance through various channels of information, the most common being Google, YouTube, or a fitness ... Continue Reading
Fix Your Lower Back Pain: From Posture to Strength
“Stop slouching.” “Sit up straight.” “Your posture is just horrendous.” Posture bullies are the worst, aren’t they? Chances are your mom was the biggest posture bully of all. And chances ... Continue Reading
What You Need to Know to Start Working Out After 50
If you're new to exercise, or coming back to it after many years of a layoff, it is very challenging. You don't have the same sense of fearlessness that you had in the past. You may lack confidence for ... Continue Reading
Getting the Most Out of Seated Cable Cuff Tricep Extensions
A key benefit of the seated cable cuff tricep extension exercise is the stability it provides. Because you have a bench for support, you can keep your shoulder blades locked down. This helps prevent your ... Continue Reading
Workout Inside to Improve Performance Outside
No matter what activities you enjoy doing outside of the gym, there are weight training exercises you can do to boost your potential. Golf? Google your favorite golfer’s name and there’s a good chance you ... Continue Reading
How to Get Lasting Sciatica Relief
Sciatica is the name given to a painful condition that originates in the lower back and triggers a “shooting” pain down the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in the body1 ... Continue Reading
Keystone Habits of a Lean Physique
Our guest for this episode is Abel Csabai. Abel got into the nutrition and training game as a part of his quest for personal growth. He started the Sustainable Self-Development podcast. Through hundreds of ... Continue Reading
Get Ready for Handstands: The Kick Up
This is the ninth and final part of a comprehensive handstand video series designed to bring you toward a strong and stable freestanding handstand. While this video will bring benefit to your training ... Continue Reading
Foot Health: From the Big Toe to Proprioception
We abuse our feet. Every single day. Whether we’re Olympic weightlifters or we’re just normal people trying to log 10,000 steps a day, if our feet aren’t functioning effectively, our lives—or our sports ... Continue Reading
Get Ready for Handstands: Thoracic Mobility
This is part three of a comprehensive handstand video series that will help you achieve a strong and stable free-standing handstand. While this video will bring benefit to your training regardless of your ... Continue Reading
Do You Really Need to Squat Below Parallel?
In the fitness world, much emphasis is placed on being able to squat below parallel—meaning squatting to a depth where your hip crease is below your knee. And not just because failing to squat below ... Continue Reading
Thoracic Stability Exercises for Strength
I've been coaching in this industry for about 20 years, whether it's fitness, CrossFit, weightlifting, powerlifting, strong man, high school, college or competitive athletes in other sports. One of the ... Continue Reading
You Can’t Solve the Obesity Epidemic If You Can’t Discuss it
Comedian Bill Maher recently used his “New Rules” segment to call attention to American health, stating, “New Rule: at next Thursday’s debate, one of the candidates has to say the problem with our ... Continue Reading
6 Cues to Make Your Deadlift Stronger
When a lifter makes a technical mistake in any barbell lift, it can instantly make them weaker. However, whereas ‘being weaker’ in the squat or the bench press could just mean having an inefficient ... Continue Reading
