Life in the 21st century is busy. Between work deadlines, traffic, taking the kids to their various activities, keeping the house from falling apart, and, of course, our constant accessibility to the ... Continue Reading
Less Is Not More
Trying to improve your game? Adding another two nights of practice may not get you the results you want. Rolled your ankle at softball practice? Taking three days off may not get you back on the field as ... Continue Reading
What Feels Strong Today Won’t Always Feel as Strong
For some bizarre reason, Olympic weightlifting is treated as a very different discipline from general strength training by newer adoptees. Things that make intuitive sense in weight training aren’t applied ... Continue Reading
Moving Mountains From Within
The word ‘motivation’ originates from the Latin word ‘movere’—meaning “to move.” Motivation itself is, broadly, a force that activates or arouses a person into pursuing goal-directed efforts. I ... Continue Reading
Extreme Fitness is a Life Saver, So is Normal Fitness
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic1, a non-profit academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio, retrospectively studied 122,007 patients who underwent exercise treadmill testing at the clinic between Jan. ... Continue Reading
Seasonal Weight Gain: A Balanced Approach to the Holidays
The leaves are falling, the air is crisp, baseball season is over, and football is in high gear. It’s official, the holidays are here. Really, they have been for a while. The official kick-off, pumpkin ... Continue Reading
There’s Always a Role for Cardio
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) was the number one fitness trend of 2017 (according to the American College of Sports Medicine). Over a year later HIIT seems to be as popular as ever, reducing ... Continue Reading
She Believed She Could and She Did
Change is difficult. We become so wrapped up in being comfortable that we forget that change is what creates the next level in our lives. On September 26, 2017, I received an email from an individual who ... Continue Reading
Set Yourself Up for Your Best Race Season Yet
“Life got in the way.” How many times have we used that excuse because we didn’t race the way we wanted to? Maybe we had a DNF or maybe even a DNS. We blame life for it. Let’s face it, you didn’t do ... Continue Reading
Lessons Learned from Rowing a Half Marathon
A basic tenant of Crossfit training is to “keep workouts short and intense.” Why, then, did I sign up for a full/half marathon row modeled off the recent Games event? Great question. I regretted my ... Continue Reading
Do You Lift, Bro? Most Americans Say Nah!
In a first of its kind study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine1, data from a nationally representative sample of US adults were used by investigators to link low-to-moderately frequent ... Continue Reading
Create Your Ultimate Diet
You may have been caught in the middle of the following lover's quarrel: “You know what that chicken on your plate has been through right? Meat is bad for you! It gives you cancer. It is pumped with ... Continue Reading
Prevent Running Injuries with the Right Conditioning
Photography by Bev Childress of Fort Worth, Texas Photography by Bev Childress of Fort Worth, Texas Running involves more than just the legs and in fact, doing it regularly can lead to many ... Continue Reading
Are You Self Mastered or a Servant of Impluse?
In 1940, researchers at Harvard set out to determine what characteristics led to happier, more psychologically well-adjusted lives. In one study, 130 sophomore males were subjected to the Harvard Treadmill ... Continue Reading
8 Holistic Tips to Keep You Moving
When you’re out of the habit, finding the motivation to get up and get moving can be difficult. If you’re feeling out of shape and don’t know how to get started, just the thought of starting to exercise ... Continue Reading
Build an Effective Obstacle Course Training Plan
Obstacle course racing (OCR) used to be a novelty. Running up a mountain, parading through the woods, and rolling in mud was out of the norm and considered “crazy.” Now OCR is one of the fastest growing ... Continue Reading
Training Your Thyroid
We hear the word "hormones" get thrown around constantly and it seems that everyone agrees–not only are hormones important but having balanced hormones is crucial for overall health. We hear ... Continue Reading
Make Big Investments in Your Weak Points for Big Returns
Much like a bridge has beams and pillars that serve to keep the structure intact, the human body has similar structures which we take for granted and turn into cumbersome weak points in our training if ... Continue Reading
The Role of Your Grip
A strong grip is important in most sports. We are certainly aware of that in weightlifting and powerlifting. You have to be able to hold on to that bar. It is also important in wrestling, rock climbing, ... Continue Reading
Top Down Recovery
"I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed." Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus The Universal Monsters, Dracula, ... Continue Reading
Parents, You Must Find Time for Fitness
“Just wait until you have kids.” “Must be nice to have that kind of time.” “Yeah, I used to be in shape, too, before… them." (The speaker points to his children while drawing a long sip of soda.) ... Continue Reading
HIRT for Hypertrophy
While working with Pavel Tsatsouline on endurance protocols (e.g., Hybrid Power Conditioning Program, StrongFirst for Crossfit, HIRT), we discovered some interesting side effects of some of the ... Continue Reading
Don’t Think of It as a Diet
Let me start off by saying I am not a nutritionist or a dietician or anything along those lines. I am a certified fitness professional that enjoys reading any and all new material on the latest diet ... Continue Reading
Creating Healthy Eaters in an Unhealthy World
A month ago I was sleeping eight hours, waking to a few hours of focused writing, working out, and then going through my day with little consideration other than what I wanted to do next. I am married, but ... Continue Reading
