When in doubt, do front squats. This is one of my favorite strength training mottos (along with "perfect practice makes perfect" and "fast sh*t is still sh*t"). I’m not here to have a debate about ... Continue Reading
Nutrition Planning: CrossFit Open Guidance
Nutritional planning for competition is a key component of your programming, obviously. In the video conversation below, I talk to Daimino Stewart, who handles the nutrition for my Team Precision and for ... Continue Reading
4 Common Foot Injuries That Plague Athletes
I love feet. They are a truly fascinating part of the body. In the foot, there are 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 100 ligaments and muscles. The irony lies in the fact that the rest of the lower extremity ... Continue Reading
How Eating Disorders Rewrite the Brain
Eating disorders a staggering number of people in the United States. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa estimates that 1.5% of American women will suffer from anorexia in their lifetime. What's ... Continue Reading
A Training Plan for Masters 40+ Rowers
Like it or not, once we hit our 40s, we aren’t able to exercise the way we used to without paying for it later. Our bodies don’t recover or heal as quickly, and in the long term, we can’t sustain as much ... Continue Reading
The Right Way to Use Yoga for Neck Pain
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Emma who had chronic neck pain. She tried exercise, pool therapy, stretching, ice, massage, all to no avail. One day, an acquaintance said to her, “I am going to a ... Continue Reading
Shift Your Perspective on Your Body
You do not have a body. You are a body. You are a living, breathing human organism. With that in mind, a big component of our performance is the health and function of our nervous system. Our ... Continue Reading
How To Cook Away Diabetes
The way you cook can have a significant effect on your health. For example, grilling meat at high heat can lead to the formation of heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, both ... Continue Reading
Is A Low-Sodium Diet Bad For You?
Is a low-sodium diet bad for you? A low-sodium diet is highly recommended by nearly every health-focused organization in the country. Everyone from the U.S. government to the American Heart Association to ... Continue Reading
The Key to Speed Is In Your Spine
One of the most stagnant professions in all of the land is coaching strength and conditioning—particularly at the college level. This is not a shot at my peers in an attempt to make myself look special. I ... Continue Reading
The New Pillars of Muscular Development
So many people entered the new year with good intentions, purchasing their gym memberships and swearing to make a life-long change. But if you’ve set foot in the gym lately, you know that numbers are ... Continue Reading
No, You Don’t Hate Running
Of all the training modalities that I coach, none is so universally despised by its non-practitioners as running. People go out of their way to describe their hatred of it, screwing up their noses and ... Continue Reading
How Mindfulness Can Cure Back Pain
Back pain is a surprisingly common problem—according to the American Chiropractic Association, an estimated 31 million Americans experience lower back pain. Back pain is the primary cause of disability not ... Continue Reading
Center Your Training on Unilateral Movements
Very few of us train for the sake of training. Every coach I know and every athlete and trainee I work with ascribes a “why” behind their “what.” We train to improve performance. Better performance of ... Continue Reading
Still Stretching? Think Bigger
Look, I’ll be honest with you: all that time you spend stretching and limbering up is just a drop in the bucket. And it’s really not that much fun, is it? If it’s not fun and not effective, there’s surely ... Continue Reading
10 Tips for Healthier Travel
Whether you are headed to a competition or trying to maintain your healthy lifestyle while traveling for work, these 10 travel tips will help keep you at your best. Some exercise is better than no ... Continue Reading
The Heroic Training Template
I’m convinced that the truest expression of our innermost humanity—the realization of all that each of us wishes to be—is the hero. We read books and flock to movies that depict heroes of all ... Continue Reading
Avoid Injury With Prehab
We've all heard of rehabilitation, the specialized care and training intended to restore physical strength, mobility, and conditioning after a surgery, injury, or illness. Physical rehab can help you to ... Continue Reading
Decrease Field Sport Injury With Better Turf
What do football, rugby, soccer, baseball, and lacrosse all have in common? They're all sports that involve a grass field of some sort. Of course, most of the grass on these sports fields is artificial ... Continue Reading
The Workout Plan for Everyday People
Most workout programs are geared towards two types of people: those chasing aesthetics (building muscle or losing fat), or those pursuing performance. If these are your goals, then you can find plenty of ... Continue Reading
Raise Your Game: Be Your Own Coach
The world of personal fitness professionals, or coaches, seems to be an ever-changing, ever-growing industry, replete with “innovative” methods of training. Many coaches who push these so-called new ... Continue Reading
5 Fantastic Exercises You Should Be Doing After 40
For many of us, finding time to train the way we would like to dwindles as family and career responsibilities continue to grow as we get older. Without a doubt, life gets more awesome, but we also find ... Continue Reading
Adjust That Movement: The Kettlebell Pistol Grip
We have been adjusting certain kettlebell lifts/ lifters to the "pistol grip" hand position for quite some time, and have been pleased with our findings. This semi-minor positioning adjustment ... Continue Reading
8 Plateau-Busting Intensifiers
For weeks, you seemed to be in the zone. Everything was clicking, the weight felt effortless, and you were the master of your destiny. You rode the wave. Then your training utopia fell apart, as if Justin ... Continue Reading
