Every year in the United States, there are approximately 4 million births. The NCAA will tell you that out of that 4 million, most all of them will be going pro in something other than sports. Your child ... Continue Reading
Heat Shock Proteins: Science’s Secret to Muscle Building
Unless you’re an avid reader of anatomy and physiology, you probably haven't heard of heat shock proteins. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are an often-overlooked aspect of muscle building that play an ... Continue Reading
10 Drills to Improve Your Full-Body Flexibility
In my last article, I discussed how you can begin to understand your movement limitations by establishing your flexibility and mobility in five different areas of the body. You can use this knowledge to ... Continue Reading
Shift the Culture of Corporate Health
When office work is brought up as a topic of conversation, those in the health and fitness world usually cringe. We know all too well from either our own experiences or our clients’ that office work takes ... Continue Reading
Triathlon Training: Find Your Breath in the Water
“If I could swim I would totally try a triathlon!” Is this you? Do you feel like you are doomed to the world of cycling and running because of the whole swimming thing? You are not alone. Sadly, ... Continue Reading
How to Train When You’re Bored
You’ve been plugging away at the same routine for months. While results came fast at first, things are getting stale. You’re not getting the same pump you used to, your gains have plateaued, and going to ... Continue Reading
Are You Weak in the Knees?
Arguably the most debilitating sports and fitness injury is a knee injury. Knee injuries are second only to lower back pain in terms of prevalence. According to the Institute of Medicine, 61 million ... Continue Reading
Willpower Won’t Work: Hack Your Habit
The beautiful thing about your body is that it can change itself at any time. It’s capable of tremendous improvement. You’ve likely heard of the SAID principle, Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand. We ... Continue Reading
7 Ways to Break Out of a Training Rut
Wouldn’t you love to be able to bottle up your training motivation and have it on tap for whenever you need it? To be able to remember all those times when you felt so good about your training that you ... Continue Reading
3 of the Best: This Week’s Top Articles, Vol. 43
Welcome to our weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Saturday, we'll post up Breaking Muscle's top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven days. So ... Continue Reading
Pattern Before Power: Movement Quality Basics
The most important aspect of any physical training is quality of movement. To dominate on the field and in the gym you need strength, speed, power, agility, and endurance. Everyone knows they are the ... Continue Reading
The Exploitation of Youth Athletes
The world of youth sports has been infiltrated by con-men. Not only will they take your money, but they will also leave your son or daughter less powerful and more likely to be injured. While I’ve found ... Continue Reading
The Dark and Bewildering World of Fitness Studies
If you’re looking to be stronger, faster, feel better, and otherwise be the best version of yourself, you can’t do it alone. After all, if you were confident that you had all the answers and the skill to ... Continue Reading
Cupping Therapy: The New Vogue Amongst Elite Athletes
The athletically-inclined population worldwide have been glued to the coverage of this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro since Friday, and the fierce competition between the planet’s most passionate ... Continue Reading
Turbo Charged Kettlebells: High Pulls and Snatches
Turbo Charged Kettlebells is a 12-week kettlebell skill building program designed to challenge your precision and kettlebell abilities. Two of the primary exercises used are the double high pull and the ... Continue Reading
A Female Weightlifting Pioneer: Diana Fuhrman
When Breaking Muscle announced that August would focus on women’s training I became fascinated with the idea of relating my journey through the early days of women’s weightlifting in the United States. ... Continue Reading
Outcry Over Newspaper’s Coverage of Tia-Clair Toomey
A journalist from one of Australia’s biggest newspapers has sparked outrage in a controversial review of CrossFit and weightlifting athlete Tia-Clair Toomey's recent performance at the Rio ... Continue Reading
Study Uses GPS Technology to Predict Injuries
New research released in the British Journal of Sports Medicine indicates footballing injuries can be predicted by looking more closely at players' workloads during training and competition. The ... Continue Reading
Control Pain and Speed Up Recovery with Meditation
Top athletes know competition is a mental game even more than a physical one. What if recovery from injury is also more dependent on psychology than on the degree of physical damage? For many years, ... Continue Reading
Train Your Weak Side
I fell in love with the game of baseball at an early age, and throughout my baseball career I learned that life is a world of asymmetrical patterns. Every day we wake up and roll out of bed to one side, ... Continue Reading
The Skill of Walking
Walking is one of the basics of human movement. As with any basic skill, you can develop it in a myriad of ways with great potential to dig deeply into the practice. One of my favorite MMA fighters, BJ ... Continue Reading
3 of the Best: This Week’s Top Articles, Vol. 42
Welcome to our weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Saturday, we'll post up Breaking Muscle's top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven days. So ... Continue Reading
The Myth of Injury Prevention
When I left university I made a pretty bold statement: I would be able to develop physical preparation programmes for the athletes I worked with that would prevent all injuries. I was newly qualified and ... Continue Reading
Don’t Let Chronic Pain Ruin Your Vacation
There was a point in my life when I dreaded hitting the road to go on vacation. I knew the long hours traveling by car or plane would cause me to be in pain for the entire trip. The pain would ruin my ... Continue Reading
