Osteoporosis is a lot more common a problem than you'd expect. It's estimated that more than 200 million people around the world suffer from the degradation of bone cells. While women are at a higher risk ... Continue Reading
Hitting Bottom: 3 Tools to Perfect Your Olympic Lifts
One of the major problems with teaching the technique of the Olympic lifts is that newcomers often are not comfortable and/or familiar with the bottom position before they ever attempt to learn the ... Continue Reading
Why It’s Not All About the Weight You Are Lifting
Speed of movement, of both the lift and the lifter, is a critical factor in the performances of the snatch and clean and jerk. It is also, along with rhythm and dynamics, an important index for determining ... Continue Reading
Sweat Out Aging and Turn Back the Clock
If only that were the case. Since the beginning of time, mankind has sought a way to stay young and fight off the effects of age. From the milk baths of Cleopatra to Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain ... Continue Reading
Fasting, Fat, and Metabolics
Metabolites are substances produced by a metabolic process, such as glucose generated in the metabolism of complex sugars and starches, or amino acids used in the biosynthesis of proteins. How do mammals ... Continue Reading
Park Your Misconceptions: Try CrossFit
Something’s got to give. You aren’t happy with your body, and you know you should do something about it. But what? You are now at the second step of what sport psychologists call “The Stages of ... Continue Reading
The Holistic Way to Track Your Training Progress
Progressive overload is a cornerstone of any strength training program. It is the concept that the body must be exposed to a stimulus greater than it has been exposed to before to adapt and improve. Train ... Continue Reading
Does Body Volume Indexing Have What it Takes to Kill BMI
Body Mass Index tends to send some people into an apoplexy of rage: after all, there's nothing like a finely honed muscular body that registers as obese to make you wonder what is going on and why you're ... Continue Reading
The Essentialists: Brandon Marcello
"More" has become the religion of the 21st century. We assume more is better in training, in eating, and in our to-do lists. Commercials convince us that buying more will make us happy, and social media ... Continue Reading
Be Strong to Be Useful
Can your six-pack halt global warming? Will your gains save the polar bears? Maybe not, but your training can actually make the world a better place. An endorphin rush and the warm-and-fuzzies? That’s a ... Continue Reading
Eat Healthier, Save The Planet
No, this isn't a post about how going vegan or vegetarian will help to save the planet by stopping the slaughter of innocent animals or reduce methane emissions. As a dedicated carnivore, I simply cannot ... Continue Reading
The Fundamentals of Self-Programming
Do you want to be your own coach? Perhaps you want the freedom to train whenever you want. Maybe you're looking for more specificity than group classes or cookie-cutter programs. Maybe you need a ... Continue Reading
Two Drills to Polish Your Pulls on the Rower
When it comes to rowing, movement efficiency is the name of the game. An error in technique might cost you only a tiny percentage of your available power, but that is multiplied, stroke after stroke, until ... Continue Reading
How About 3 Minutes of Exercise a Week Compared to 150
You may be wondering, "3 minutes of intense exercise is enough? How is that possible?" Most of us have been told over and over that the only way to get fit is to spend hours every week working out, ... Continue Reading
Can We Turn Couch Potato Kids into Athletes?
I was recently contacted by one of the regional managers for Pop Warner football to help them create programs to offer parents. This gentleman had seen a presentation I gave on the challenges of training ... Continue Reading
Get Your Motivation Motor Started
We’ve all been there. We are on a training streak and everything is running like a well-oiled machine. Our program is perfect, out workouts are flawless, and we have the momentum like a freight train. ... Continue Reading
HIT Motivates the Sedentary to Workout More
At the end of a long work day/week, there is nothing more appealing than spending a bit of time relaxing on the couch, in bed, or in a comfy chair with your favorite book, game, or TV show. It can be tough ... Continue Reading
Goops**t Hurts Everybody and Disses Real Fitness Pros
Back in 2008, the former actress known as Gwyneth Paltrow launched Goop. She calls it goop, but we're going to take a grammatical license here and be difficult. It is, probably, against all sense and ... Continue Reading
Attention Club Volleyball Parents
Club volleyball. If you aren’t involved in the volleyball world, you have no understanding of what comes along with those two words. Evenings in the gym, weekends travelling to tournaments, private ... Continue Reading
Just A Little Fat Loss Goes A Long Way
When most people think of getting healthy, two words flash into their minds: weight loss. These two words are thrown around like the ultimate goal for being fit. If you can lose weight, you can have the ... Continue Reading
Put Fat Back Where It Belongs and Learn to Love Olive Oil
Digest this message for a minute: "Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle ... Continue Reading
Muscle Breaking Advice to My Younger Self
As the old saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. I find myself in the bottom half of my forties, and I can truthfully say that I’m just now eligible to look back at my training, nutrition, and lifestyle habits ... Continue Reading
Shape Yourself For Winning: The Neutral, Arch, and Hollow
It's supposed to be a truism that great athletes don't make great coaches. How can they understand what mere mortals have to contend with, when so much of what they have is a part of their DNA? This may ... Continue Reading
HIIT Training: The Feminine Advantage
Much as modern society hates to admit it, there are differences between men and women—specifically physiological differences. Sexual dimorphism is the physical differences that set men and women apart: ... Continue Reading
