Science is a way of developing knowledge; a mechanism to establish what you accept as sufficiently "real" to allow you to act upon, and thereby live your life. So, science can help guide how you live your ... Continue Reading
5 Ways to Progress Your Plank
If you are a student of fitness long enough, eventually you will be exposed to some variation of the plank for core stability. The plank can be taught two ways: on your forearms or with straight arms. ... Continue Reading
Powerlifters: Do You Need to Overhead Press?
As a powerlifting coach, I frequently get asked: Should I include the overhead press in my training if I’m a competitive or recreational powerlifter? As with most questions in strength and conditioning, ... Continue Reading
Learning to Accept and Embrace Pain
Life is full of triumphs, failures, and difficulties, as well as periods of relaxation, comfort, and order. While everyone has a different goal, one aspect of life that most people tend to avoid is pain. ... Continue Reading
Make Monday Your Favorite Day
It’s not just important to make health and fithess a priority in order to live a long, healthy life—it’s critical. As I discussed in my last article, there are days where we miss a workout due to work ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Be Doing the One-Handed Hardstyle Swing
The one-handed Hardstyle swing is a great tool that builds explosive strength, powerful grip, and impressive glutes. Although the same benefits can be found in heavy two-handed swings, the one-handed ... Continue Reading
A Geek’s Quest for Fitness: 8 Tools to Get from Nerd to Jock
When you think of geek, you think of the woman or man who is hooked onto their Xbox like a newborn onto a teat. The geek is out of shape living on a diet of chips and Mountain Dew. The only locker room ... Continue Reading
Crack the Code of Your Metabolism
The plateau is, without a doubt, the most exasperating part of physical exercise. It’s like the pain you push through to finish a marathon. Whether you want to gain muscle, lose fat, or improve your ... Continue Reading
You Don’t Have Time
There are days when it seems like my life is an uninterrupted stream of awkward conversations. My complete inability to talk about anything that’s happened in pop culture for the last decade is one ... Continue Reading
The Elements of Garage Gym Success with Jerred Moon
If there’s one universal truth in the 21st century, it’s that life doesn’t slow down. For many, the time and inconvenience required to go to the gym have become a barrier to their fitness goals. This has ... Continue Reading
Why Strength Still Matters in the Modern World
Georges Hébert, the great French physical education innovator, developed what was known as “la méthode naturelle,” or The Natural Method. He was convinced that for humans to thrive, they need the physical ... Continue Reading
Lessons From Four Generations of Weightlifters
Weightlifting, being a more or less niche sport, cannot rely on the parent culture to help it produce a steady supply of new recruits. If all of the nation’s football players and coaches were to disappear ... Continue Reading
Sciatica and Hip Pain: Deal With It
The hip is a major contributor to all core work. In fact, when we first learn to sit up as babies, we rely on our hip muscles rather than the muscles of our trunk to do this. Repetitive motion like ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Guide to Muscle Gain and Hypertrophy
A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Bigger So you want big muscles. Where do we start? We'll start with some of the ways that muscles grow through strength training and progressive resistance ... Continue Reading
Off-Season Plyometrics for Running
So you’re a runner and you want to spend a little bit of time in the gym while the weather is bad getting stronger. You’re hoping that strength will translate into running somehow, and since you’re a ... Continue Reading
A Three Faceted Approach to Optimal Alignment
The recent trends for movement culture, natural movement, and functional fitness have the fitness culture obsessing about mobility and alignment more than ever before. While an obsession with movement ... Continue Reading
How to Eat Healthy and Train Hard on the Road
Recently, I had the opportunity (I say that loosely) to travel from North Carolina to Nevada. This was not my first cross-country trip. I have driven from Florida to Washington state and then Washington ... Continue Reading
The Deload: The Path to Bigger, Faster and Stronger
“One More!” “It’s all you bro!” “Light weight! Light weight!” Yea, we’ve all been there. The two dudes in their cut-off high school football shirts, screaming to squeeze out one more bench ... Continue Reading
Olympic Weightlifting and the Recreational Athlete
So you wanna be an Olympic weightlifter. I do too. I also want to be a fighter pilot, the President of the United States, and the Fittest Man on Earth. I would also like to be a dolphin wrangler, a Super ... Continue Reading
The Next Big Wave for Weightlifting
With the 2017 World Championships and the American Open Finals in our rearview mirror, the future has never looked brighter for Olympic Weightlifting in the US. Records fell, and American lifters took ... Continue Reading
Rekindle the Lost Virtue of Toughness
Over the past few decades, toughness has gotten a bad rap. It has been caricatured as an archaic, grumpy old man, and correlated with anger, pessimism, and grumblings about “back in my day.” It’s often ... Continue Reading
Find the Warrior Inside During Menopause
When I started writing about menopause and its impact on women's health this year, I wasn’t expecting to reach as many people as I have. Women who read my articles are celebrating the fact that we are ... Continue Reading
Use Olympic Lifts to Increase Speed and Agility
According to a series of recent posts published online by the NFHS and the NCAA, the vast majority of high school and collegiate athletes are familiar with one or more Olympic style weightlifting ... Continue Reading
The Body Image Dilemma for Female Weightlifters
A common issue encountered in training female weightlifters is that of body image, and more specifically, bodyweight. In our modern, mass-media controlled culture, both males and females are bombarded from ... Continue Reading
