Historically, the Ten Commandments set out the laws on how you should live and treat others in your community. One thing that makes CrossFit stand out as a training concept for the long haul is its ... Continue Reading
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How to Simultaneously Succeed in Competitive Sport and CrossFit
Although CrossFit is now a sport in its own right, there are still plenty of people who take it up in order to supplement their other athletic pursuits. That’s how I got into it - I was playing elite-level ... Continue Reading
7 Reasons Kettlebell Sport Is the Everyman (or Everywoman) Sport
One of the reasons I love kettlebell sport is because it is truly inclusive. If you have ever watched a kettlebell sport competition, you know that it is endurance weightlifting. The kettlebells are ... Continue Reading
5 Steps to Work Through Your Fear of Handstands
It might sound crazy, but just a few years ago I was terrified to practice handstands. I remember going to CrossFit one day and seeing handstand push ups on the whiteboard. Suddenly I realized I needed to ... Continue Reading
Shoulder Mobility for Kettlebell Sport Athletes
The shoulder joints are a complex, in both senses. They’re a physically complicated group of joints that, when healthy and acting together, make up the most marvellous, flexible, and sublime piece of ... Continue Reading
Why Athletes Hate the Jerk Lift
Hello there, it’s Oleksiy Torokhtiy speaking. You may recognize me from my participation in weightlifting sports for more than twenty years. For ten of those years, I was an active member of the national ... Continue Reading
Go Beyond the 5 Fundamental Movement Patterns
If you are into strength training, you’ve heard about the fundamental movement patterns—the natural human movements that most trainers believe all humans would, ideally, be able to demonstrate and ... Continue Reading
The Lifting Game: Weightlifters Versus CrossFit Athletes
Watching Seb Ostrowics over at Weightlifting House on YouTube is one of my guilty pleasures. A bowl of Frosted Flakes, ice cold milk, and the droopy, sonorous musings of a weightlifting nerd are all it ... Continue Reading
How to Form Tough Identities That Propel Behavioral Change
We praise what matters. In a famous study, Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck found that students were far more likely to persevere through challenging problems and bring those problems home to work on more ... Continue Reading
The 505kg Deadlift Mark Remains Untouched
In December 2015, Eddie Hall achieved the then world record deadlift at the World Deadlift Championships 2015, with a 463 kg (1,021 lb) deadlift. In 2016, The Beast, as Eddie is known, set a new world ... Continue Reading
What is Functional Strength Training
How is strength defined and who defines it? Kinesiologists study muscles and have various ways to gauge muscle contraction, length, tension, and force. Therefore, kinesiologists typically measure ... Continue Reading
A Guide to Proper Footwear Selection for Athletes
Social proof is a powerful influencer. We’re wired to think whatever is common is normal and, therefore, can’t be all that bad. Pop-Tarts for breakfast? Why not? Quit being such a buzzkill, ... Continue Reading
A Plague of Strength Is the Best Type of Plague
In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Jamie Lewis to discuss the history of strength training. In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Jamie Lewis to discuss the history of ... Continue Reading
Emotional Intelligence as a Success Marker for Fitness Training
The pandemic taught us one important lesson: everyone has an opinion and people in the fitness industry seem to have a lot more than most business-minded people. And it wasn’t really much fun to watch ... Continue Reading
Enhance Muscle And Strength With These Sleep Extension Techniques
Most of the literature on sleep is regarding restriction and its impact on health and performance. However, there is a growing body of research on sleep extension and the potential implications on athletic ... Continue Reading
How To Optimize Your Training for Next Year’s CrossFit Open With Former Champ James FitzGerald
For more than 99 percent of those who participated in the 2021 CrossFit Open and the quarterfinals, it’s back to the drawing board: eleven months of training ahead of you in hopes of improving upon your ... Continue Reading
The Talk Test and the Lactate Threshold
A post shared by Michael Tromello (@mtromello) A post shared by Michael Tromello (@mtromello) Let's start with the simple things first, lactic acid build up and the lactate threshold are not ... Continue Reading
Too Much Rest Or Not Enough?
I hated studying for certification tests. Right after college, I took one of the more reputable certifications for strength and conditioning. While preparing, it wasn't very reassuring to memorize concepts ... Continue Reading
The Yin and Yang in Strength Training to Optimize Balance
I started writing for Breaking Muscle several years back, and I have had an agenda the entire time. In an attempt to get me established as someone with some strength chops, the good folks on the editing ... Continue Reading
Embrace A Long-term, 3 Step Approach To Pain-free Fitness
After 11-plus years of coaching, I have learned that pretty much every single person who shows up to train with me has some pain. After 11-plus years of coaching, I have learned that pretty ... Continue Reading
Midline Rule: Simplify Your Stance
Does original thought exist? Have we covered everything, or are there thinkers out there who aren’t in the box? I know my friend David Weck down in San Diego is changing the game when it comes to running, ... Continue Reading
Nature’s Two Most Powerful Exercise Recovery Tools
In part one Train Hard, Recover Harder of the exercise recovery series, I explained that stress is a double-edged sword. To make adaptations, you need to impose stress, but too much stress will interfere ... Continue Reading
Train Hard, Recover Harder
Based on my email inbox and Instagram DMs, recovery from training is a hot topic. I get asked all kinds of questions about recovery techniques. Based on my email inbox and Instagram DMs, ... Continue Reading
I Was Wrong
When strung together, we should say these three words with our tail between our legs and a strong shimmy to our confidence. I’m not going to get on my high horse and go through some Pinterest list of ... Continue Reading
