This set works on two key areas that will help you to be a smooth, powerful runner: effective body lean, and efficient ground contact (the quicker it is, the less you slow your forward momentum = going ... Continue Reading
Lift Stuff: Add Mass to Your Body and Years to Your Life
Photo by Bev Childress “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.” The infamous words of Mark Rippetoe are often used to drive the avid gym-goer to squat more, ... Continue Reading
How to Train Before You Go Under the Knife
“I think I’ll go get injured in a few weeks.” These are not words that you expect to hear an athlete say. Injuries are to be avoided wherever possible. They interrupt training cycles and cause you to ... Continue Reading
Analyzing High Versus Low-Load Resistance Training Methodologies
High-load resistance training has always been linked to greater muscular power and strength, while low-load training can lead to greater muscular endurance. Breaking that down further, high-load resistance ... Continue Reading
Use This One Exercise for Immediate Back Pain Relief
Over the years Airbench has been a quick and effective way for me to get relief from low back pain for both myself and the people I have worked with. I think that once you experience the immediate, ... Continue Reading
Train Your Breath to Multiply Your Fitness
Prepare to get weird. Wherever you find yourself while you’re reading this, stop and notice where you feel your breath. Your nose? Your chest? Your traps? Your belly? Now close your mouth and put your ... Continue Reading
HIIT: Work Through the Pain to Reach Euphoria
We all know that exercise can boost your mood and drive away stress. When we engage in high-intensity exercise (such as HIIT), our brains release Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), a protein that ... Continue Reading
The Functional Benefits of Being Upside Down
Being upside down is not a natural state for humans. However, handstands hold a special place in people's minds. They are an acquired skill. Not everyone can do them, frankly, and not everyone who does ... Continue Reading
Motivation Is Garbage; Discipline Is Freedom
What would your life look like if you had the freedom to do whatever you want? Would it be all relaxation and goofing off? Spontaneity and fun? Probably not. In fact, it would probably involve a greater ... Continue Reading
Just Follow the Protocols for Exercising During Pregnancy
There are many health risks associated with pregnancy: from preeclampsia to gestational diabetes to incontinence to excessive weight gain. While some of these problems are simply the result of the changes ... Continue Reading
Why HIIT Might Help Your PCOS
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Science Thinks Sugar Makes You Sad
Sugar has been linked to a broad range of health problems: from diabetes to obesity to inflammation to acne to an increased cancer risk. In Britain, adults consume approximately double, and in the U.S. ... Continue Reading
Exercises to Fight the 40s
What is the best workout for people over 40? A definitive answer depends on your genetics, upbringing, and the sports you played. How many hours do you sleep, and what is your medical history? What kind of ... Continue Reading
Which Is Right for You: Free Weights or Bodyweight?
The ‘strong is the new skinny’ movement has arrived. The fear that resistance training will cause us to walk through doors sideways, has been replaced with a body of knowledge that shows increasing our ... Continue Reading
Beginner Pull-Up Series: Negatives and Increasing the Loading
The Beginner Pull-Up Program is designed to help you achieve your first strict pull-up. If you already have a pull-up or two, this program will help you progress your strength toward longer sets and more ... Continue Reading
The Redline: Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
I wanted to really dig into managing a key part of your development as a CrossFit athlete or enthusiast: the notion that you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. It's the idea of training ... Continue Reading
The Pillars of the Second Half of Life
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The Older You Get the More Protein to Stave off Muscle Loss
Protein is the most important part of our diet. Not only does it contribute to new muscle growth, but it carries out chemical functions in the cells, coordinates biological processes, stores energy, and ... Continue Reading
Learning the Ropes
Picture a solitary rope, hanging from the ceiling and terminating inches from the floor. Is this image enough to create angst and anxiety in your mind? Climbing to the top of a rope was a benchmark of a ... Continue Reading
The Sixty Year Fitness Challenge
For all our advances in medical technology and understanding of how the human body works, we don’t seem to be getting any healthier. In fact, the first generation in American history with a shorter life ... Continue Reading
Why You Need Olympic Lifts in Your Workouts
“The clean is a very important movement, both for motor skill development and for full-body conditioning. Learning it is important, since it is complicated, and learning complicated things improves the ... Continue Reading
Conditioning for Strength Sports: Optimizing Both Strength & Conditioning
An athlete recently asked me how to achieve peak conditioning and peak strength levels simultaneously. To his disappointment I noted this realistically could not be achieved. It’s not the case, however, ... Continue Reading
You Can Teach Yourself Anything
I want to share with you a method of how to teach yourself just about anything. This method of acquiring skills is a combination of concepts I was taught and others that I’ve found through trial and error ... Continue Reading
Is Your Flexibility Determined Through Genetics or Training?
Flexibility is the great bugbear for many weightlifters. Almost all recruits have to do remedial flexibility work when they start training in order to get the most out of themselves. Most trainees need ... Continue Reading
