Every year, swaths of the population try in vain to stick to an exercise program. More often than not, these efforts cease after just a few weeks or months. People earnestly desire to improve their health ... Continue Reading
Can I Train Both Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting?
In the early days of the iron game, the boundary lines between weightlifting, bodybuilding, pure strength lifting, wrestling, and weight throwing were much less defined than they are now. Athletes would ... Continue Reading
Flexibility Versus Mobility: What Do You Need?
What do you think of when someone talks about flexibility? Is it the ability to bend over and touch your toes? Or maybe it conjures up images of ballet dancers and yogis, easily dropping into the ... Continue Reading
Every Program Needs Strength Training
If you are following a workout program right now, that’s great. Whether the goal of your program is fat loss, hypertrophy, or strength, you have a goal and you have a plan to accomplish it. Any well ... Continue Reading
Olympic Weightlifting as Plyometric Training
Photo By Bev Childress Photo By Bev Childress Is Olympic-style weightlifting just a different form of plyometrics? This question has been bouncing around the strength and conditioning ... Continue Reading
Don’t Judge Your Wealth Without Your Health
My brother, Daniel Tromello, and I are both in the business of mentoring and helping people be the best they can be. We have always been active and successful in competitive sports but are also able to ... Continue Reading
Go Shovel Your Own Damn Driveway
Add this to the list of things too scary and difficult for modern homo sapiens to handle: shoveling snow. According to an article brought to my attention recently by a friend of mine, it’s a mortally ... Continue Reading
We Used to Be Humans: Practical Strategies to Combat Tech Addiction
Our society is increasingly driven by a group of omnipresent manipulators who seek to create addiction in order to increase profits. These include the pharmaceutical industry and the Food Giants I ... Continue Reading
The Benefit of Increasing Training Volume for Hypertrophy
In a previous article Why Linear Periodization Sucks For Hypertrophy, I said that an effective training program should tax, stimulate, and overload the underlying systems of the adaptations you’re trying ... Continue Reading
The Science of Strength for Every Athlete
What are the stories you’ve always told yourself about your body? If you’re like most people, you either believe you were born strong, or you weren’t. The role of genetics in body type, physical capacity, ... Continue Reading
4 Steps to Making Fitness Stick For Life
Health and happiness require daily doses of physical resistance and adversity. Until recently, that didn’t pose much of a problem. Exercise was once a non-negotiable fact of life. You moved—a lot—simply to ... Continue Reading
Are You Sure You Don’t Just Need to Poop?
“Are you sure you don’t just need to poop?” An interesting question, and on an issue on which questioned should feel quite clear, without the questioner’s investigatory assistance. However, I’ve ... Continue Reading
Fight Strength NSFW: Preparation and Exercises for Building a Fighting Body
This is a weekly show that focuses on the training strategies used to develop elite fighters. Phil Daru is the lead strength and conditioning coach at American Top Team (ATT). Some of the notable fighters ... Continue Reading
Unravelling the Mysteries of Training Frequency for Hypertrophy
As discussed in my article on manipulating intensity, volume and frequency for muscle gain, training frequency is one of the most important variables to consider for hypertrophy. In this instance, training ... Continue Reading
The Subtle Art of Spinal Rotation
We often think about core stability when we consider exercises to prevent low back pain, specifically things like planks, bridges, bird-dogs. The cueing used is usually something along the lines of “keep ... Continue Reading
Run Smart, Run Strong
When Rochelle Basil tossed her running shoes to the back of the closet after a collegiate career that nearly broke her, she assumed it was for good. But years later, the marathon came calling, and she had ... Continue Reading
The Treadmill Is More than a Hamster Wheel
When I was a kid, the old school hamster homes with the tubes and the hamster wheel were all the rage. Being neat freaks, my parents wouldn’t let my brother and I have one, but the idea of the hamster ... Continue Reading
3 Kettlebell Exercises for an Iron Grip
Whether you know it or not, your forearm and grip strength say a lot about you. Grip strength is a quick way to evaluate how much full body strength one possesses. If you have the hand strength of a ... Continue Reading
Social Media Fire: Gyms and Butt Pics
The owner of Blue Ridge Crossfit, in North Carolina, recently saw an exodus of members from his gym because he posted a video of his female member’s butts on the gym’s Facebook page. To add insult to ... Continue Reading
How to Calculate Your Fitness Age (Though Your True Age Is an Attitude)
“Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart.” Frank Sinatra “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart.” Frank ... Continue Reading
Use Olympic Weightlifting to Transform Strength Into Speed
I am often asked, when should one use Olympic-style weightlifting exercises in the training of competitive athletes, especially at the high school and collegiate level? Should athletes be bigger, faster ... Continue Reading
Assess and Correct Leg Dominance
Do you ever give much thought to whether you use your legs the same way? Or whether they feel the same way against the floor? Chances are high you probably assume both legs are capable of exactly the ... Continue Reading
Density Training for Fat Loss
When you look at the sea of cardio machines at most gyms, you’ll see many individuals with a look of desperation on their faces as they walk, run, step, and cycle. Every one of them hopes that every minute ... Continue Reading
A Blood Flow Restriction Training Primer
No one would argue with any method that would allow you to increase muscle strength and size using less weight and volume of training. It's called occlusion training, KAATSU training, or blood flow ... Continue Reading
