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A Frank Assessment of the Plank: Just a Way to Burn Time?

Note: 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 diretly in the comments ... Continue Reading

Let Go of Perfect: How to Find Consistency in Your Training

Have you been constantly putting something off that is important to you simply because “it isn’t a good time?” If it is important to you, find the time. Time will never present itself in a neat, ... Continue Reading

Why Do We Choke? Discussing Performance-Related Stress

Watching an athlete choke can be one of the most difficult, and at the same time, engaging moments to witness. Like watching the scene of a car accident, we just can’t look away. What happens to athletes ... Continue Reading

5 Tools You Need In Your Strength Training Arsenal

In this day and age of accessibility for everything from strength training and nutrition, to mobility and recovery, I find myself wondering where the simplicity has gone. If you are reading this you are ... Continue Reading

Why You Fail Under Pressure (And How to Succeed Next Time)

2 Essential Strategies for Motivation Mastery

Motivation is our inner desire to take action, accomplish our goals, and fulfill dreams. For a lot of people, getting motivated is easy to start with, but staying motivated is seemingly impossible. ... Continue Reading

The 2 Essential Principles of Lifelong Motivation

The Journey to a BJJ Black Belt: Look Back to Move Forward

Students often think of Brazilian jiu jitsu as a journey that will one day take them to a black belt. If you are a new student or someone thinking about starting Brazilian jiu jitsu, realize you are going ... Continue Reading

Feats of Strength: The Old, the New, and You

Besides a Seinfeld joke about Festivus, the phrase “feats of strength” more commonly refers to exhibitions of strength that are particularly done with an eye to performing for others. The average person ... Continue Reading

Protect Your Spine and Power Your Swings With a Packed Neck

I know for some of you this is going to rehash a topic that keeps going round and round throughout the fitness and strength community. Everyone thinks he or she is correct and scoffs at the other side. The ... Continue Reading

Let’s Talk About Diet, Part 1: Quantity Versus Quality

I hate talking about diet. The subject usually hits on the same frequency and sensitivity as politics or religion. But of course, just as it goes with most small talk, when someone figures out what I do ... Continue Reading

A Comprehensive Guide to Meal Planning for Fat Loss

Google “body fat loss” and see how many search results you get. Fat loss is an age-old endeavor. Look at the magazines in the grocery store checkout line and you are guaranteed to see multiple covers ... Continue Reading

Pack Your Neck for a Safer Spine and Stronger Swings

How to Superset Your Way to Optimal Recovery

In the world of sports performance, it’s often said that strength underpins everything we do. But is that really true? There’s no doubt athletes need to produce and absorb forces quickly and reactively. ... Continue Reading

Lifting Stuff, Being Harder to Kill, and Why Burpees Save Lives

Photo by Bev Childress “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.” The infamous words of Mark Rippetoe are often used to drive the avid gym-goer to squat more, deadlift ... Continue Reading

Supersets: Beware the Line Between Training and Recovery

Tommy John and Baseball: America’s Favorite Elbow Surgery

America’s favorite pastime beckons hundreds of thousands of young players each year to chase the dream of pitching in a Major League stadium. Unfortunately, the odds of making it to the big show are ... Continue Reading

Avoiding Achilles Injury and the Benefits of Bare Feet

In part one of this article I explained what impact forces are, why they are actually a good thing, and how shoes affect your body’s ability to perceive and receive these forces. Today, I want to explain ... Continue Reading

Impact Forces: How to Avoid Achilles, Shin, and Foot Injury: Part 2

Dominate Your Next Event: Replicate Race Demands in Training

You may well be familiar with training regimes that mix a timetable of lower intensity endurance sessions with higher intensity intervals. But how do you choose what length intervals and rest periods you ... Continue Reading

The Psychology Behind Integrity: Cutting Out Cheating in the Gym

Shaving reps and doing incomplete movements is common in CrossFit WODs. Cumulating evidence suggests that we have a “fudge factor” - the level where we feel comfortable in bending the rules. Let’s look at ... Continue Reading

Frequency and Variety: Smart Strength With Charles Staley

Note: Charles is here on a weekly basis to help you cut through the B.S. and get to the bottom of the biggest questions in health and training. Post your questions directly to Charles in the comments below ... Continue Reading

Why CrossFitters Need Less HIIT and More Endurance

Endurance as a term is illusive, misunderstood, inaccurately described, and generally feared and hated by many different gym-rat aficionados. Long slow distance (LSD) then, might just be its dirty-bitch ... Continue Reading