While health and fitness magazines routinely recommend body part training splits, that style of training doesn’t lend itself particularly well to those of us who have extremely busy schedules. Fortunately, ... Continue Reading
The Mechanics Of Human Running
Did you know that humans are the only ones who land on their heels when they run? While most animals (felines, canines) move around primarily on the balls of their feet, we humans land on our heels and ... Continue Reading
Get It Done Early: A Morning Workout Primer
Most programs are written to accommodate the everyman schedule, which means an afternoon or evening workout. This is especially true when nutrition is mentioned. But as the ranks of gym-goers swell in the ... Continue Reading
Beneath the Surface of Strength
You’ve embarked on a lifelong journey of strength—one that will inevitably improve the quality of your health for decades to come. We’ve all come to know and appreciate the fact that strength forms the ... Continue Reading
Build Size. Build Mass. Stay Functional.
Yes, training for aesthetic purposes is important. Anyone who says he or she isn’t interested in looking good is a liar. That said, building real, genuine horsepower is far more important. You don’t want ... Continue Reading
Sleep Better: A Proven Way to Train Hard and Feel Your Best
We know sleep is imperative to health. But people seldom realize the extent it affects our recovery and susceptibility to injury. As a physical therapist, I have a special interest in how sleep affects ... Continue Reading
Could A College Degree Lead To Weight Gain?
College can be both the best and worst years of your life. You have the freedom of moving away from home, exploring the world around you, making new friends, and starting out on your own. There's also the ... Continue Reading
Yoga for Strength Athletes: Mobilize Your IT Band and Posterior Chain
One of the most common range of motion issues I come across as a trainer is a poorly-mobilized posterior chain. Many athletes say they have “tight hamstrings,” but the issue is more than just hamstrings. ... Continue Reading
Training Slow Won’t Make You Faster
The old-school way of triathlon training is lots and lots of long, slow distance (LSD). But you aren’t doing yourself any favors with LSD if you want to be a better (read: faster) triathlete. I will agree ... Continue Reading
Quick Tips for Open WOD 17.1
(Source: Bev Childress Creative) In this video, I am going to give you the same advice and insight I give my gym's athletes. This is shot at Precision CrossFit moments after the WOD was ... Continue Reading
How Martial Arts and Yoga Challenge Control
Yoga and martial arts share a lot of similarities. They both improve control by training the ability to pause and take conscious action, rather than be driven by automatic reactions. A comparison of the ... Continue Reading
The Fitness Trap: Tom Brady and Food Babes
After every Super Bowl, big-name MMA fight, superhero movie, and celebrity “body transformation,” we look up and ask The Big Question: “How did they do it?” We listen with bated breath in hopes of being ... Continue Reading
The Shortest Path To Release Your Tension
There's a wide-open space in most people's training, where an enormous potential for gain goes largely unnoticed. We all know the importance of building muscle, but it's just as important to release the ... Continue Reading
The Final Four: Bodyweight Movements for the CrossFit Open
The CrossFit Open begins this week, so I’ve put together one last set of tips and techniques for a few movements we haven’t covered in detail yet: chest-to-bar pullups, toes-to-bar, bar-facing burpees, and ... Continue Reading
Don’t Bog Down Your Training With Complicated Programming
Don’t overcomplicate your training without good reason. If you have been training for awhile and you are still focusing the vast majority of your lifts on the smaller movements (i.e. correctives and ... Continue Reading
Fitness Trackers Need Some Human Intervention
Activity trackers, also known as fitness trackers, are definitely in style. Not only are they becoming more popular among the fitness community (gymgoers, CrossFitters), but working professionals, ... Continue Reading
Tabata Training and the Myth of the 4-Minute Workout
In health and fitness, there is no free lunch, no shortcut, no magic pill or potion. Becoming fit and healthy, and staying fit and healthy, requires work. The fitness industry promises easy results in just ... Continue Reading
Mash Up Your Kettlebell Movements to Challenge Mind and Body
You can deadlift, and I bet you can clean. But can you put the two together while standing on one leg? This may sound like the kettlebell equivalent of patting your head while rubbing your tummy, ... Continue Reading
Build Better Habits To Stay Motivated
We begin new ventures with the best of intentions to follow through. We make nutrition changes, we promise that we’re going to work out more frequently or perform our mobility every day, or we swear that ... Continue Reading
Rowers: An 8-Week Injury Comeback Plan
When returning from an injury, it is important to ease yourself back into your sport or activity. In rowing, as in many sports, if you try to come back too quickly, you risk re-injury or sustaining a new ... Continue Reading
The Natural Way To Prevent Alzheimer’s
The Alzheimer's Association estimates that over five million Americans currently live with Alzheimer's disease. It's the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. (causing more deaths than prostate and ... Continue Reading
2017 CrossFit Open Prep: Toes to Bar Efficiency Tips
(Source: J Perez Imagery>) The 2017 CrossFit Games Open looms just around the corner. Are you ready? The mastermind programmers behind these five workouts strive for combinations that are ... Continue Reading
How to Train for a Tactical Physique
The average lifter follows a traditional gym program, which is made up of body part splits that start with chest day every Monday. This style of program was designed with the goal of becoming bigger and ... Continue Reading
Eating Disorders Common Among Older Women
When we think of eating disorders, most of us picture them as being a problem for teenaged and young adult women. The truth is that a vast majority of those suffering from eating disorders like anorexia or ... Continue Reading
