Creating a long-term plan for movement and health can be a bit daunting. There’s so much information available today that many people just don’t know where to start. What should you prioritize? Should you ... Continue Reading
Over 40 Weeks of Free Mature Athlete Workouts
There's now way around it - we all get older. That doesn't mean you have to stop working out, but it does mean you may need to change the focus and intensity of your workouts. For that reason, we created ... Continue Reading
Morning Glory: What Sleep-Related Erections Say About Your Health
For fitness enthusiasts, there’s always a new gadget to help us measure performance or monitor rest and recovery. Increasingly, many people are using something like heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring ... Continue Reading
How to Strategize and Win a WOD Like Rich Froning
Who remembers their first CrossFit workout? For me it was "Cindy" in a hotel gym, and it kicked the living crap out of me. I'd never felt my muscles ache so much or my lungs burn so bad. I peeled ... Continue Reading
How to Simultaneously Succeed in Competitive Sport and CrossFit
Although CrossFit is now a sport in its own right, there are still plenty of people who take it up in order to supplement their other athletic pursuits. That’s how I got into it - I was playing elite-level ... Continue Reading
Get Behind Your Glutes with These 3 Exercises
There's a big list of butt exercises. Perform them properly, meaning using good form and having intensity, and there is a good chance of you having a strong and shapely backside. Here are three that I ... Continue Reading
Find the Missing Links to Better Performance and Physique
Image Source: Cat Medic Image Source: Cat Medic When it comes to optimizing body composition, one of the key areas I see men struggle with is prioritizing their performance. In most cases, the ... Continue Reading
Body Recomposition – Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
Simultaneously gaining muscle and losing fat is the holy grail for most gym-goers. It’s known in the fitness industry as body recomposition. Body recomposition is a polarizing topic among experts. Some ... Continue Reading
A Simple System for Staying Healthy and Active to the Very End
Movement doesn’t come naturally to some people. The modern environment has selected against it. Our genes were forged out of suffering and expect hardship. This means that deep down our DNA is ... Continue Reading
A 5-Step Path to Injury-Free Strength Training
It took twelve months of hard work and sacrifice to get to England’s Strongest Man. Just twenty seconds into the first event something went clunk in my back. The pain was staggering, and I was told my ... Continue Reading
7 Reasons Kettlebell Sport Is the Everyman (or Everywoman) Sport
One of the reasons I love kettlebell sport is because it is truly inclusive. If you have ever watched a kettlebell sport competition, you know that it is endurance weightlifting. The kettlebells are ... Continue Reading
5 Steps to Work Through Your Fear of Handstands
It might sound crazy, but just a few years ago I was terrified to practice handstands. I remember going to CrossFit one day and seeing handstand push ups on the whiteboard. Suddenly I realized I needed to ... Continue Reading
4 Needless Mistakes You’re Making in Strongman Training
The sport of strongman is a demanding one. It requires brute strength mixed with speed, agility, and endurance. A sport that tests you to your limits both physically and mentally. One that provides ... Continue Reading
4 Lies You’ve Been Told About Kinesiotape
Kinesiology tape is the generic, non-branded term for elastic tape made of tightly woven elasticated cotton and nylon fibres. It is worn on skin in an effort to reduce pain, aid recovery, and improve ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Accelerate Hypertrophy With Velocity-Based Training
If you’re reading this, you’re probably curious to know how you can use data to increase muscle size. Many of you may be familiar with VBT (velocity-based training) as a means to autoregulate training ... Continue Reading
From Coach to Student of Physical Therapy
As a coach or personal trainer, you are limited by your knowledge and skillset. Therefore, certifications are suitable; however, one could become too heavy-handed and lose sight of their focus. As a ... Continue Reading
Why Athletes Hate the Jerk Lift
Hello there, it’s Oleksiy Torokhtiy speaking. You may recognize me from my participation in weightlifting sports for more than twenty years. For ten of those years, I was an active member of the national ... Continue Reading
Go Beyond the 5 Fundamental Movement Patterns
If you are into strength training, you’ve heard about the fundamental movement patterns—the natural human movements that most trainers believe all humans would, ideally, be able to demonstrate and ... Continue Reading
Prevent Self-Sabotage With a Flexible Framework
I’m the laziest, hyperactive, lethargic, ambitious, idle person you’ll meet. As breathing contradictions go, I get by. I’ve learned how to deal with myself by finally admitting just how much wiggle room I ... Continue Reading
How to Form Tough Identities That Propel Behavioral Change
We praise what matters. In a famous study, Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck found that students were far more likely to persevere through challenging problems and bring those problems home to work on more ... Continue Reading
5 Ways to Get Client Buy-in and Increase Client Retention
Put yourself in your potential client's shoes. Why would they fork over a large amount of cash to train with a person they barely know? Or, when they become clients, how do you keep them coming back? The ... Continue Reading
Programming for CrossFit Strength, Endurance, and Preparedness
Someone asked me how I would program an 8-week CrossFit cycle and I had to say, I wouldn’t. Frankly, I prefer 12, 14 or 16-week programming blocks because I think 8-weeks is just too short to create some ... Continue Reading
A Guide to Optimize Self-Development Habits
Dear stressed-out life hackers, I’m with you. Have you ever stressed yourself out by trying to incorporate too many stress management tactics? Have you lost sleep trying to fit more into your sleep ... Continue Reading
Sleep is the Body’s Most Powerful Recovery Tool
Sleep is fascinating. We all know it is good for us, and most of us would like to get more, yet, according to research, 43.2% of adults are sleep deprived. That’s almost half the population ... Continue Reading
