Day 354 Of 360 Hang power clean: 5 x 5 @ (up to) 75% of power clean 2RM Rest as needed between sets. Today focuses on position, execution, fluidity; Pace and weight are to follow, not lead. Take ... Continue Reading
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Streamline Your Swimming for Greater Efficiency
If you have watched the Olympics or any competitive swimming race, you may have noticed that competitive swimmers push off of every wall in what is called a "streamline position." This position creates the ... Continue Reading
The Postpartum Fitness Trap Strikes Again
Six weeks—that's the standard number of weeks given for women to refrain from exercising after giving birth. With my first pregnancy I made it to five weeks, but this time I was set on getting to six. I ... Continue Reading
Health Clubs Should Focus on Our Fears
It has been said many times that people make decisions for two reasons—to gain some type of pleasure or to avoid some type of pain. Let me ask you a question, would you be more inclined to exercise to live ... Continue Reading
Simple Rules for Crushing Health and Life
From the day I could talk, I knew I wanted to be seven. I was named after the famous western about a wandering cowboy. My father talked up what an honor it was to share a name with this cool, strong silent ... Continue Reading
Respect the Bar: Create Your Set Up Checklist
Close your eyes and imagine yourself standing in front of a barbell that you’re about to lift. It can be a squat, or a clean and jerk, or whatever lift you enjoy the most. What’s your first step to address ... Continue Reading
Subversive Fitness: Day 329 of 360
Day 329 of 360 Squat complex: 7, 5, 3- 3 Weight increases each set (denoted by commas), and then remains the same for a heavy 2 x 3 (denoted by dashes). Begin at a moderate, challenging weight and ... Continue Reading
Subversive Fitness: Day 328 of 360
Day 328 of 360 Mace 360: 12, 10, 8- 8- 8 Weight increases initially (denoted by commas), and then remains the same for a strong 3 x 8 (denoted by dashes). Begin at a moderate, challenging weight and ... Continue Reading
How to Perform Muscle Ups Without Wrecking Your Shoulders
Most people assume that after thirty their best days lay behind them, but that doesn't have to be the case. At age 49, Paul Roberts overcame a life-disrupting shoulder injury and achieved the first of many ... Continue Reading
Repetition is the Mother of All Learning
The ancient Athenians created democracy, modern philosophical thinking, and even the first great physical education program. A core Athenian concept was picked up by the Romans, who turned it into a ... Continue Reading
Subversive Fitness: Day 322 Of 360
Day 322 Of 360 Mace front pendulum + extension: 3 x 30 @ scaled to ability in each set Rest as needed between sets. When the scheme is listed as “3 x 30″, it always refers to “Sets” x ... Continue Reading
Cycling Through Rage Infested Roads
Dear driver who almost killed me: I’m a person, too. Dear driver who almost killed me: I’m a person, too. I know that, subconsciously, I didn’t seem like a person at the time. I was a ... Continue Reading
The Truth About Falling Off the Wagon
What is it you feel whenever you fall off the wagon? It’s usually disappointment, discouragement, and perhaps a touch of self-loathing. These emotions are like quicksand to forward progress unless you know ... Continue Reading
Moving Beyond Your Daily Exercise
Seemingly, you do everything right. You eat sensibly and reach the American Heart Association’s recommended 75 minutes of vigorous exercise and 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week. But what about ... Continue Reading
Physical Health Is Mental Health
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” ... Continue Reading
Learn to Expect What, Not When
It’s 1-rep max testing day, the day of the big race, or any other day when the time comes to test and measure your progress. But yet, you don’t hit that coveted PR, beat your best time, or cross a ... Continue Reading
The Anywhere, Anytime Program for Lifelong Fitness
Your workout should not be a job. Sure, you won’t want to work out some days. Often it will be a grind to get started, but exercise should not just be a long list of checkboxes standing between you and a ... Continue Reading
Not Everything Needs to Be a PR
Allow me to break the fourth wall for a moment, and take you inside what it means to be a coach and a writer. When I first started writing, I thought it was my job to take the thoughts that were inside my ... Continue Reading
The Athlete’s Toolbox: An Unbeatable Mind
As a coach and gym owner, my goal is to create clients who are successful athletes. Over the years, however, my definition of “successful” has evolved. Originally, I would deem an athlete successful when ... Continue Reading
The Weak Runner’s Guide to Starting Triathlon
If you are an athlete thinking about triathlon but the thought of the run portion makes your stomach turn (or you know it’s the area where you need the most work), then you are in the right place. While it ... Continue Reading
Falling Out of Love With the Process
As an editor, I have developed an allergy to clichés. This presents a problem for many of our writers, as I have become likely to nuke from orbit any sentence that references “the journey” of fitness, or ... Continue Reading
Finding Intensity in CrossFit Again
Photo by Bev Childress Photo by Bev Childress I’ve never been an intense exerciser. I don’t have an intense personality, and while I work quickly and with intent, there is no real spark to ... Continue Reading
Nutrition From a Practitioner’s Perspective
“We have a field of sort-of-science in which hypotheses are treated as facts because they’re too hard too expensive to test, and there are so many hypotheses that what journalist like to call ‘leading ... Continue Reading
The Five-Alarm Method to Sneak In Your Daily Workout
Every year, swaths of the population try in vain to stick to an exercise program. More often than not, these efforts cease after just a few weeks or months. People earnestly desire to improve their health ... Continue Reading
