You come in, you hop on a rower, or maybe you absentmindedly pedal an Airdyne while scrolling Instagram. Then you walk over, grab a PVC pipe and do some borderline terrible dislocates, a few half range of ... Continue Reading
5 Tips for Training Discipline This New Year
Between work meetings, having kids, being in school, or whatever responsibilities you may have in your life, it is inevitable that you get busy. This may lead to finding it difficult to stay on track with ... Continue Reading
Toddler Fitness Is the Best Fitness
There is a little toy car on a spring at the park by my house. It has a seat and a bar for toddlers to hold on to as they rock back and forth. When my now 20-month-old first tried it a couple months ago ... Continue Reading
5 Workout Mistakes Only Men Make
You’ve been training hard and eating clean for some time. You have a thirst for knowledge and absorb every bit of information you can find. But look back to a year ago, do you truly see a difference in how ... Continue Reading
The Pyramid of Athletic Development
To begin your pyramid, think of the different tools you can use to help improve your performance as situated in a pyramid shape. At the peak of the pyramid is the sport specific skill you are trying to ... Continue Reading
Clean Eating Is Not the Answer
Clean eating is not the answer. So now that I have that out of the way, I already know what you’re going to say: This is what we have been taught for years, Prince. Yes, you are absolutely right, we ... Continue Reading
The Truth About Foam Rolling
Tight muscles are normal, especially if you are training hard and pushing your body to excel both on the field and in the gym. But tight muscles can also affect how you feel, how you move, and how you ... Continue Reading
The 3 Day Stoic Holiday Challenge
“All that is real you can’t buy or steal.” Matt Kearney Comparable to most of human history, we have an inconceivable amount of stuff filling our lives with incomprehensible convenience. Your daily ... Continue Reading
Bulletproof Your Body
By selecting the best exercises to build maximal strength and size, while limiting unnecessary stress and risk of injury, you can build a bulletproof body that will perform as well as it looks. Unlike ... Continue Reading
Recovery Is About Creating Balance
Recovery is about creating balance—with training and in life. Stress greatly effects your overall ability to recover and while exercise is beneficial to your wellness, too much of a good thing can be ... Continue Reading
Spend Less Time In the Gym
The days of spending an hour slaving away on the stair stepper, then another hour and a half working out with weights, are over. Most normal people with jobs, kids, school, amongst other things, don't have ... Continue Reading
Quality Over Quantity; Process Over Outcome
Julie wants to make the varsity basketball team. Fully motivated and unsure of where to begin, she decides that she will stay late after open gyms and shoot 200 free-throws every day. She finishes all her ... Continue Reading
Strength and Conditioning: Truth and Consequences
Truth and consequences; Critical-thinking and accountability; Unconventional origins and philosophies; We will speak with and strive to reach those that embody and embrace the ... Continue Reading
You Are Not Your Body
It happens to all of us. One day, you catch yourself in the mirror or glance at a recent picture taken and it kind of hits you. ”Is that me?” You notice that you have a few wrinkles. Or maybe a little ... Continue Reading
Create Strong, Stable, Pain-Free Shoulders
When I first started lifting at 16, my workout consisted of three exercises: bench press, standing barbell curls, and lying tricep extensions, also known as the French press. This routine helped me achieve ... Continue Reading
The Flow State of Strength Training
Flow. We all know the feeling of time standing still when we are engrossed in what we are doing. During a set, we may feel like Neo in the Matrix “finessing” a deadlift or a bench press. We’ve yet to fully ... Continue Reading
Recovering from Injury
There’s no way around it—injuries suck. As a coach, gym owner, and a massage therapist, I see them constantly and I observe the way they affect people’s lives. I also know from personal experience how ... Continue Reading
3 Mistakes to Avoid for Lean Athletic Abs
So, you’re in the constant pursuit of developing a strong athletic core, and a visible set of abs. Let’s be clear from the get-go, only you know where you’re at right now so if you’re thinking this article ... Continue Reading
Strength Is a Relative Term
Overcoming resistance is as much as a mental feat as it is a physical one. During training our goal is to get our body, a weight, or sometimes both, from point A to point B. Your gym partner may be able to ... Continue Reading
Building a Healthy Body, and Active Mind, and Strong Relationships
Dr. Wendy Walsh is a human behaviors expert. She teaches Health Psychology at California State University Channel Islands and speaks often about pro-aging (mental and physical wellness,) gender dynamics ... Continue Reading
Stress Is Growth
Chronic stress is a genuine concern in our current environment. Continuous "fight-or-flight" responses and prolonged cortisol exposure plague countless individuals, and their health and body composition ... Continue Reading
Energize Your Willpower
With the holiday season upon us, family dinners, never-ending temptations, samples at Costco, cookies, turkey, cheesy potatoes, and a glass of wine or two, it is no wonder that most people pack on the ... Continue Reading
So You Tore Your ACL, Now What?
Tearing your ACL sucks. It's frustrating, defeating, and often comes with an influx of fears of never being able to return to the field as the athlete you were before. Just because your friend who ... Continue Reading
The Gift of Gratitude: How to Have a Truly Happy Thanksgiving
Often times during Thanksgiving we are concerned with staying in shape and making sure we get in our workout before the big meal. I teach a yoga class on Thanksgiving morning and it is always filled to ... Continue Reading
