You hit the gym. You’re feeling strong, pumped, and ready to attack a new squat PB. But as you unrack the bar, descend to the bottom of the squat, and turn the power on to drive back up, the unthinkable ... Continue Reading
Unlock Power and Performance With a Golf Ball
Most of you have screwed up feet, and don't even realize it. Thanks to the crazy choices we make in footwear, our feet have become pathologically weak. We have created a nightmare situation, not only for ... Continue Reading
Unlock the Roots of Performance With a Golf Ball
Most of you have screwed up feet, and don't even realize it. Thanks to the crazy choices we make in footwear, our feet have become pathologically weak. We have created a nightmare situation, not only for ... Continue Reading
Is Posture a Choice?
We’ve all heard the old cues for posture and alignment: stand up straight, keep a flat back, shoulders down and back. But there’s a question to consider: is posture even a choice? Can we just choose a ... Continue Reading
Has CrossFit Become Closed to New Ideas?
Recently, some gym owners have dropped their CrossFit affiliation and evolved into different facilities. Part of the reason for their transition is that CrossFit has strayed from its early open-source ... Continue Reading
3 of the Best: This Week’s Top Articles, Vol. 27
Welcome to our brand new weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Sunday, we'll post up Breaking Muscle's top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven ... Continue Reading
Simplifying Shoulder Health for Strength Athletes
People love to talk about how complicated the shoulder is. Given that the shoulder complex is actually four joints and involves a large number of muscles, they aren’t exactly wrong. The trouble is that ... Continue Reading
Is Choline Deficiency Killing Your Performance?
If you dedicate time and effort to achieving your potential in the gym or on the playing field, you don’t want to leave any stone unturned. A lack of essential vitamins, minerals, or nutrients will ... Continue Reading
The Pursuit of Excellence: Drug Use in Olympic Weightlifting
I started this series of articles with a more general description of doping myths. I will conclude it with a more specific discussion of my sport of Olympic weightlifting. Weightlifters are no less likely ... Continue Reading
Stress Is Ruining Your Fitness
Training really comes down to one thing: stress management. In the gym you add stress to try to push your body to a new level. Outside the gym, you do everything you can to alleviate the stress imposed in ... Continue Reading
5 Ways You’re Wasting Your Time in the Gym
Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get some real perspective regarding health and training. Please post feedback or questions to Charles directly in the comments below ... Continue Reading
7 Reasons That Other Cyclist Is Faster Than You
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You're pedalling at a fair rate of knots and feel you’re riding well. Then a fellow cyclist of a similar age and build comes flying past, leaving you for dust as he ... Continue Reading
Avoid Burnout With Gap Threshold Training
Everyone knows the fastest path to successful goal achievement is a straight line. Establishing a starting and ending point is easy, but usually we get lost in between because the straight line turns into ... Continue Reading
Train and Recover Smarter: A Periodization Primer
The “no pain, no gain” mantra of sport and performance is holding less credence than it used to. This is good news, because the more we learn about the body’s ability to adapt to external stimuli, the more ... Continue Reading
Beyond GPP: Find Your Movement Flow
Ready to get “high” and skyrocket the performance of your body and brain? In my last article, I discussed a new model of performance that stimulates development of the brain right alongside the body. ... Continue Reading
3 of the Best: This Week’s Top Articles, Vol. 26
Welcome to our brand new weekend roundup, Three of the Best!Every Sunday, we'll post up Breaking Muscle's top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Skip Your Jogging Warm Up
What’s the best way to warm up for jogging? The answer used to be to stretch and start off slow. More recently, the answers are clouded in clinical studies, systematic reviews, and expert ... Continue Reading
Bone Health in the Media: Don’t Trust Everything You Read
When it comes to health, fitness, and nutrition information, the entertainment and news media usually get it wrong for plenty of reasons. Research can be complicated and hard to condense into a useful ... Continue Reading
In Pain? How to Assemble a Winning Team for Your Rehab
You wake up in the middle of the night and your shoulder is screaming as you lie on it. In the morning, you can barely bend over to put your Stance socks on after that heavy squat session yesterday. Box ... Continue Reading
Build A Resilient Spine: Challenge Your System
You can’t build a strong, stable spine by moving in just one plane of motion. More importantly, you can’t build a resilient spine without providing a challenging stimulus for it to respond to. ... Continue Reading
Microcycle Programming: Organize Your Training Week
Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get some real perspective regarding health and training. Please post feedback or questions to Charles directly in the comments below ... Continue Reading
Stop Apologizing for Your Goals
It seems like it’s birthday season at work. You worked hard to limit the damage through the holidays, and the endless carry-ins and banquets and family gatherings. You even stayed on track through Super ... Continue Reading
Talent Doesn’t Lift Weights, You Do: Own Your Practice
When the Olympics came to London in 2012, not only did it provide the British public with an enthusiasm extravaganza rarely seen in a long and chronically reserved history, it brought one of the most ... Continue Reading
The Gift of an Injury
Nothing sucks more than having an injury slam the brakes on your momentum in your training. You’ve been progressing with consistency and are approaching PRs in several lifts and then BAM! The dreaded pop ... Continue Reading
