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
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6 Signs You’ve Hired the Wrong Trainer
Hiring a personal trainer or coach can be an enormous boost to your physical development. From time to time, everyone needs some help to continue making progress. There are many advantages to working with ... Continue Reading
Take Your Cleans Beyond the Barbell
Fitness is a fascinating activity, hobby, career, and sport. It infiltrates so much of our life, but most know very little about the history of fitness and the way it has shaped what we think today. To a ... Continue Reading
The Next Frontier in Recovery
Globally, fitness and training has exponentially exploded over the last couple of years, helped by social media, trends, and technology. It’s virtually impossible when looking at social media not to be ... Continue Reading
Parents: You Are the First Coach
At first, it was some friends of mine who are teachers complaining about how unprepared some of their incoming students are. You know, that handful of little ones who should have some basic skills taught ... Continue Reading
How Delayed Gratification Shapes Your Health
Remember that squat PR you reached at age 35, or when you finally mastered the front lever and planche? How about that college class you pulled up from a C to an A? Or that first car you saved for all ... Continue Reading
Unconventional Advice to Revamp Your Bench Press
For better or worse, the bench press is the ubiquitous measure of strength. Think about it, when was the last time someone asked you how much you squat? The bench press is also typically one of the first ... Continue Reading
The Secret to Cycling Single Lifts
In this video, I’m going to give away one of the key takeaways from my recent experience at Wodapalooza in Miami. We’ve already established that barbell cycling is one of the most fundamental skill ... Continue Reading
40 Days of Clean Eating: Roasted Carrot and Red Pepper Soup
Day 19 of 40 Originally posted on Cooking Up Clean [Photo credit: Kari Lund] Prep time: 10 min Cook time: 60 min Serves: 6-8 Ingredients: 1½ - 2 pounds carrots, peeled and sliced ... Continue Reading
How to Find a Great Coach
When you choose to hire a coach, not only are they working for you, they are working with you—to radically change your life. You shouldn’t settle for anything less than that. So you need to find someone ... Continue Reading
Day 16/360: Wolf Brigade Subversive Fitness
Accumulate 5 minutes Farmer hold @ BW Breaking as few times as possible, hold one kettlebell/ dumbbell in each hand and lock in to an aggressive, organized standing position. When breaks do occur, ... Continue Reading
Creating the Life Skill of Delayed Gratification
Training is a microcosm of life, teaching us persistence, tenacity, a sense of discipline, and the patience required to achieve any great goal. The toughness we achieve through training is essential to do ... Continue Reading
Day 14/360: Wolf Brigade Subversive Fitness
Positional and mechanical improvement: Barbell lifts: Beginner/ Intermediate: Deadlift, Pendlay row, press, push press Advanced: Sumo deadlift, push jerk Positional and mechanical ... Continue Reading
There’s More to the Weight Room Than Getting Strong
For those of you who are not a part of team strength and conditioning, what I am going to tell you might come as a surprise. First, I have the incredible fortune of getting to work in the college setting ... Continue Reading
Track Your Training with the Polar V650 Bicycle Computer
Bicycle computers are facing tough competition both from smartphones as well as quickly evolving smartwatches. We've taken a closer look at Polar's V650 to find out if there are still good reasons why ... Continue Reading
The 3 Types of Suffering That Empower Your Workouts
When it comes to hard work, perspective is everything. Do you work as hard as you think you do? When you go the gym, are you giving it everything you have or are you just showing up? That's me. How ... Continue Reading
The Squat Style Get Up Primer
Your response to Turkish get ups in your program probably ranges somewhere between mild disappointment and flat out refusal; perhaps to even violent thoughts toward your coach. So many athletes have told ... Continue Reading
Strength and Burly Sandbags: Strongman Ready
Before getting started with Ultimate Sandbag (USB) and Dynamic Variable Resistance Training (DVRT), I did not really understand why there was a range of bag styles and sizes (Core, Power, Force, Strength, ... Continue Reading
Strength Training for the Modern Tennis Athlete
The physical demands of tennis have changed over the past 10 years, as players are required to hit the balls much harder and move more quickly and explosively. The body needs to be better conditioned to ... Continue Reading
How Your Hand Position Can Maximize Your Squats
Squats. Sitting down with a weight on your back then standing back up. They sound simple, but unfortunately they aren’t. Technique plays a significant role in your ability to move heavy loads. One of the ... Continue Reading
Prolonged Use of Screen Devices Raises Obesity Risk
Research has repeatedly shown that watching too much television, increases the risk of obesity in children. However, more and more screen time is coming from other devices, like tablets and smartphones, ... Continue Reading
Day 3/360: Wolf Brigade Subversive Fitness
Positional and mechanical improvement: Single and double kettlebell lifts Beginner/ Intermediate: Clean from floor, clean from swing, front squat, back squat, push press Advanced: Clean/ swing clean + ... Continue Reading
Safety Lights to Brighten Your Training
Sometimes athletes need to train outside, in the dark, and at strange times of day. Maybe you're an athlete who wants some added visibility during a trail race through a dark forest. Perhaps you are a ... Continue Reading
The Neck Pain Troubleshooting Guide
Tension headaches. The creak in the neck that won’t go away. A low, throbbing hum in your scalenes. The “tight” upper traps that, no matter how much they are massaged, don’t ever seem to loosen up. ... Continue Reading
