Humanity delights in the idea of a challenge. We are fascinated by iconoclasts like Wim Hof who push the limits of what our bodies are capable. Something deep within us yearns to test our boundaries—to ... Continue Reading
How to Become Ruthlessly Efficient in the Gym
This is one of many interviews that you can binge-listen on the Six Pack of Knowledge podcast page. Our guest for this episode is Michael Goulden. Michael is a personal trainer and he founded his training ... Continue Reading
7 Parts of the Body That Need More Stretching
The debate about stretching—dynamic versus static, when and how long, and so on—may never be solved. The debate about stretching—dynamic versus static, when and how long, and so on—may never be ... Continue Reading
The Locomotion Workout
Training is hard. Even for the most dedicated fitness enthusiasts, there are many days where it is a chore to get to the gym. You punch the clock, get in and get on with life, happier because you lived up ... Continue Reading
Strategies That Can Take You From Good to Great in the Gym
This is one of many interviews that you can binge-listen on the Six Pack of Knowledge podcast page. I hope to bring you the best minds, the thought leaders, in hypertrophy and strength training, such as ... Continue Reading
Perfecting the Push-Up and Fixing The Common Faults
The push-up—there is no more fundamental or universal exercise. It is the first one taught in elementary PE and one still utilized daily by our most elite fighting forces. Push-ups are a staple of every ... Continue Reading
Heal and Prevent Hand Rips
To a certain degree, ripping your hands is inevitable. If you’re swinging around on bars doing 100 pull-ups or toes-to-bar and then throwing a kettlebell around, what do you expect? To a ... Continue Reading
5 Common Squat Problems and How to Fix Them
A simple squat is one of the most effective exercises for building muscle, and also incredibly functional in how it translates to our daily living. Despite its relevance, it definitely takes detailed work ... Continue Reading
Ladies Only: Nutrition and Training for Performance and Cramps
Like clockwork, every other month when the tomato truck was in town, I used to wake up at 5 am with cramps on the cusp of becoming crippling. If the tomato truck seems like a too-descriptive visual, ... Continue Reading
Resistance and Adaptation: Is Your Environment Weakening You?
“Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little ... Continue Reading
3 Barbell Complexes for Fun and Profit
Whether you’re a weightlifter or a multi-modal CrossFit athlete, barbell complexes can be valuable for various reasons. Mike Tromello—a USA Weightlifting National Coach, who has coached many ... Continue Reading
Never Eat Sweets Alone
In Useful Shame: Countering Junk Food and Smartphone Addiction, I looked at how social norms, manners, and shame have successfully guided cultural behavior with far more fluidity, elegance, and success ... Continue Reading
Fencing: The Sport You Should Be Doing
NYU has taught me a lot and one of those things were, sports needn’t be concussion-inducing, ego inflating, and have a retirement age of 45 to be considered legit. Sometimes we overlook things such as ... Continue Reading
Effort Determines Outcome
Have you been working out with the goal to get bigger? You have read the latest articles on what the best training program is to meet your goal and after six weeks have little to show for it. Does this ... Continue Reading
Learning to Fight
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” Sun Tzu Except for a couple of scraps in high school and college, I never got in a real fight as a ... Continue Reading
Developing Strength One Leg at a Time
If I had a dollar for every time a client asked me to “show me how to do a pistol,” I could go on a pretty decadent 5-star vacation. Usually, I reply and ask a few questions like: “Can you back squat ... Continue Reading
6 Exercises to Fire Up Your Glutes
Your glutes—gluteus maximus (your ass)—is the biggest, most powerful muscle on your body. It has been granted with important jobs, such as keeping your body erect, as well as smaller jobs like walking up ... Continue Reading
Auto-Regulation, HRV, and the Unplugged Approach
Every strength has its weakness. My best talent, if you could call it that, is that I follow-through. When I decide to do something—earn a certification, wake daily to a morning flow, take a cold shower ... Continue Reading
Triceps Training for Pressing Power
I could feed you the old gimmick of obsessing over bigger arms, and I could acknowledge your desire to impress others with your summer guns, but all that is overrated. Let’s train your triceps because they ... Continue Reading
Fit to Fight Sleep Apnea
When we think about sleep apnea, we usually consider it a fat man’s disease. Turns out, this isn’t the case: Overweight men are just the most likely to be diagnosed with sleep apnea because their ... Continue Reading
Ditch the Rigid Meal Plan
After two years of coming to the gym four days a week and not losing a single pound, my client approached me utterly frustrated. After two years of coming to the gym four days a week and ... Continue Reading
10 Transformational Habits That Really Force a Change
Fads drive the fitness industry. Calorie counting is repackaged in a million different ways from point systems to color-coded portion control containers. If not tracking calories, you are probably either ... Continue Reading
Fatigue: It’s Just an Emotion
You’re in the middle of a one-minute max effort rowing sprint. Your legs are full of lactic acid and feel like they might fall off. Your lungs are on fire and your heart rate is through the roof. There’s ... Continue Reading
Eccentric Abdominal Training
Abs respond to heavier weights because of their muscle fiber makeup. In order to get deeply etched abs, they also need to undergo some hypertrophy training. The rules on this are clear and, like every ... Continue Reading
