My job allows me to interact with hundreds of high school and middle school athletes, coaches, and parents each year. This means that I am constantly exposed to all the common pitfalls of the training ... Continue Reading
Injury Can Be a Beautiful Thing
We workout to progress, to grow, to better ourselves. Through this process we develop a tendency to glorify the work, prioritize the training sessions, and vilify all that might keep us from ... Continue Reading
How Drinking Vino Protects Your Brain
For a large percentage of people in the world, wine is the beverage of choice to kick back and relax after a long day at the office or a long work week. Few drinks are as versatile or varied as wine, with ... Continue Reading
The Seven Deadly Sins of Fitness
“Making mistakes is something everyone does. Learning from them is not.” - Anonymous My love affair with fitness is unquestionably one of the best things that’s ever happened to me. When it’s all ... Continue Reading
My First Time Failing Murph
“Murph” Run 1 mile 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 squats Run 1 mile I went into this workout yesterday fully confident that I was going to successfully complete it. I was looking forward to being ... Continue Reading
Can Your Muscles “Taste” Sugar?
An illustration of the Baf60c-Deptor-AKT signaling pathway identified as a target of myocyte glucose sensing that augments muscle insulin action. (Source: Stephanie King/LSI) Sugar has a wide range ... Continue Reading
Train Your Gymnastic Core: Stability, Rotation, and Bowing
The notion that you don’t have to isolate your core because “we do core every day” is a dangerous fallacy. Skipping core work is a good way to decrease your overall capability, and increase your risk for ... Continue Reading
The Foundation of the Lifelong Athlete
If you’ve been following my writing, you may recognize a recurring theme: the predominant societal trends of modern youth are failing to create capable, fulfilled humans, and really do a number on their ... Continue Reading
Spice Up Your Life and Fight the Fat
For decades, we were told that a high-fat diet was bad for our health. Low-fat diet products were all the rage, and everyone was trying to find ways to cut fat from their diets. Thankfully, the pendulum ... Continue Reading
You Can Build Muscle After 40
The 40-something crowd today is more active than ever. And I don’t mean slow strolls on the treadmill, or lifting tiny, colorful dumbbells at the neighborhood wellness center. Many quadragenarians are ... Continue Reading
Can Exercise Protect You From Alzheimer’s?
The Alzheimer's Foundation of America estimates that roughly 5.1 million Americans suffer from the neurodegenerative disease, and the incidences of Alzheimer's are increasing every year. It may not be a ... Continue Reading
Why Take a Pill to Cure Midlife Obesity
A lot of men tend to agree with the statement that "things go downhill after 35." Our guts begin to sag, our muscle tone decreases, our fitness efforts don't see the same results they used to, and the list ... Continue Reading
The Time Crunch Kettlebell Circuit
Follow along with me and two fellow RKC trainers for a kettlebell workout aimed at balance, coordination, and stability. This is a very quick circuit that will cover all your bases. It is a great option ... Continue Reading
The Tiger Woods Model Is Not for Your Kid
Tiger Woods’s recent DUI arrest seems another step in a well-documented downward spiral. Kickstarted by his tumultuous divorce and the revelation of his infidelities, his mojo seemingly vanished, leading ... Continue Reading
Triathlon Training Can Be Fun
Endurance sports are on the rise in the US, and few sports will test your endurance quite like the triathlon. With the unique demands of this sport, it can easily become overwhelming trying to manage the ... Continue Reading
Get to Know Your Psoas
When I began a piece on the psoas, I hoped to write a catchy, simplistic article about a body part with some related stretches that anyone could do. Unfortunately, the human body isn’t an assemblage of ... Continue Reading
How Boot Camp Training Changes Your Gut Reactions
Military-style boot camp training programs are all the rage these days. You can't walk into a gym or fitness center without seeing a half-dozen flyers for all sorts of boot camps, each with their own ... Continue Reading
Metcon to Get Lean
Metabolic conditioning, or metcon for short, has surfaced as an everyday term within many fitness circles. Short for metabolic conditioning, it has taken on a life of its own, and has become a go-to term ... Continue Reading
A Natural Solution for TMJ Pain
The temporomandibular (tem-puh-roe-mun-DIB-u-lur) joint (TMJ) attaches the lower jaw to the skull. TMJ syndrome is a disorder that is characterized by pain in the jaw joint and in the muscles that control ... Continue Reading
How Cardio Combats a Fatty Liver
Your liver is designed to absorb dietary fats and turn them into cholesterol, which is then used for the production of hormones, cellular walls, and more. Your liver also produces glucose for energy. It's ... Continue Reading
Why This Woman Is the Fittest One of All
Becca Voigt has been CrossFitting since, I think, 2008. I started around 2009. I saw her at the first Regional competition that year when there were no qualifiers and you could just sign up to take part. ... Continue Reading
Social Media is Your Best Diet Buddy Ever
A post shared by Kari Lund | CookingUpClean (@cookingupclean) on May 26, 2017 at 11:33am PDT A post shared by Kari Lund | CookingUpClean (@cookingupclean) on May 26, 2017 at 11:33am ... Continue Reading
When’s the Last Time You Gave Back?
(Source: Beverly Childress) (Source: Beverly Childress) As something of a rabid capitalist, I find myself with conflicting feelings when it comes to the realities of the fitness industry. Make ... Continue Reading
Painless Strength for the Hyper Immobile
Mobility, the combination of flexibility and stability, is an absolutely essential quality for better performance. Greater mobility prevents injuries and unlocks speed, power, and agility. It allows ... Continue Reading
