At first glance, the sport of triathlon seems intimidating. You don’t have just one discipline to master, you have three: swimming, cycling, and running, each with its own techniques, training protocols, ... Continue Reading
Training With The Power Clean
Today's topic for our three coaches is: how do you approach training the power clean and it's variations for sports performance development? Giulio Palau The power clean is an excellent tool for ... Continue Reading
The Five Levels of Skill Development
We often see people succeeding at the highest levels and wonder how they got there, or what they were like when they started. Whether it be our fitness, profession, or hobby, the bottom line is that we all ... Continue Reading
The 6 Factors Making Weight Loss So Bloody Difficult
As so many people will attest, weight loss in the modern day and age is so darn hard. People spend years dieting, exercising, and doing their best to try to lose weight, but they barely see any results for ... Continue Reading
Your Strength Routine’s Most Important 15 Minutes
Coaches, athletes, and workout fanatics are in a perpetual search for competitive advantages both on and off the field. The offseason is paramount for the development of an athlete’s physical strength and ... Continue Reading
Post-Menopause, Time To Cut Back On Booze
Alcohol can make any weekend cookout, Super Bowl Sunday, or girls' night out a whole lot more enjoyable. At the end of a long work week, it's nice to kick back with a cold beer, a glass of wine, or ... Continue Reading
Energy Boosting Hacks for Fatigue During Menopause
Are you overwhelmed with fatigue these days? I know I am. It’s mind-blowingly frustrating and yes, exhausting. During perimenopause and menopause, you may experience the relentless feeling of tiredness, ... Continue Reading
Steady State Aerobic Training Isn’t the Devil
HIT is all the rage. And why shouldn’t it be? It advertises the same health benefits of a long workout, in a shorter period of time. HIT taps into our need for instant gratification; we think we’re going ... Continue Reading
Can Your Brain Help You Lift More Weight?
That may sound like utter nonsense. After all, strength literally means your muscles' ability to generate force as they contract and expand. So how could anything be more important than your muscles when ... Continue Reading
No Failure, Only Feedback
One thing we all learn at a rather early age is that life is full of challenges. The response to challenge puts people into one of two camps: those who rise to the occasion to overcome challenge, and those ... Continue Reading
Manage Your Fitness on the Road
The way I see it, there are two types of people when it comes to fitness habits and travel. On one hand, you have the all-in types who obsess over every little detail of their fitness lifestyle. They try ... Continue Reading
Looking for the Sweet Spot of Muscle Stress
Exercise is one of the most effective methods of combatting obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Through daily activity, you can prevent fat storage, eliminate excess body fat, keep your arteries ... Continue Reading
An Analysis of Body Types in Weightlifting
In 1954 psychologist William Herbert Sheldon characterized all possible body types according to a three number scale that ranged from 1 to 7 for each of three somatotypes: endomorph, mesomorph, and ... Continue Reading
The Tau of Concussion Recovery
The subject of concussions among athletes—particularly football players with the NFL and colleges—has been a highly controversial one for well over a decade. The high-impact sport has been known to lead to ... Continue Reading
The 2 Lift Workout: Your “Take a Chill-Pill” Routine
Overcomplicating things is a natural human trait brought on by a fear of what must be done. Anytime you set a large and important goal for yourself you create a situation in which the journey that is laid ... Continue Reading
A Strength Training Session Without Conventional Equipment
Here's a good story about someone obsessed with strength training who had no access to barbells, dumbbells, or conventional machines. This story is about me, and it goes back to the late 1980s. I ... Continue Reading
Preferred Expert Methods for Training the Core
Theodore Sloan, Antonio Squillante, and Giulio Palau are three up and coming young coaches, part of a vanguard of new minds coming into the industry. They will approach a coaching tactic or strategy from a ... Continue Reading
Transform Your Gym Frustrations Into Empowerment
Source: Bev Childress Every one of us has experienced frustration in the gym. Some skill or weight goal seems somehow beyond our reach, and we’ve all but given up on trying to achieve the milestone. ... Continue Reading
Human Flags, Personal Training, and What Makes an Athlete
Most of the trainers and coaches you meet went straight into the fitness business after school, but bodyweight wizard Danny Kavadlo is the exception to that rule. He bounced around a dozen different jobs ... Continue Reading
Money Is Not the Solution: You Are
A symptom of our consumerist society is the ever-growing belief that money will solve our problems. Every commercial subtly inserts the idea that buying their product will create happiness. Most people ... Continue Reading
Don’t Play Stupid Games
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It’s something I say all the time, in reference to a news story, or a Darwin Award candidate. But since my last race weekend in May, I’ve been saying it about ... Continue Reading
Love Your Workout and It Loves You Right Back
Exercise often feels like hard work. It damn well should, because you're lifting heavy objects, pushing your cardiovascular system to its limits, and forcing your body to burn fat and glucose to supplement ... Continue Reading
PubMed and Bro-Science: How to Use Evidence in Fitness
How do you decide the best approach to a problem? There’s an ongoing debate in the fitness and therapy fields about what defines true evidence-based practice. I would define the two camps at the center of ... Continue Reading
CrossFit: an Outsider’s Perspective on Sport Versus Fitness
Source: Bev Childress CrossFit. The name itself is enough to elicit very strong opinions across the fitness landscape. Depending on whom you ask, it is either: The greatest manifestation of ... Continue Reading
