Much has been written about the RKC Level 1 Certification and the infamous snatch test. It requires 100 kettlebell snatches in five minutes with a

Timing is an interesting thing. Al Pacino has a great speech in Any Given Sunday where he notes that, “The margin for error is so

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When I first sat down to write this it was going to be all about how to pass the RKC. Then I realized that what

Internet forums are funny things. They remind me of the zoo. Often they’re fascinating to watch and you can get a rare insight into some

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Due to some injuries I suffered in 2006 I started looking for ways to train that didn’t hurt me and could offer potential fixes to

Ian King, the best kept secret in the strength and conditioning world, once said to me that, “in the short term people will over react

It’s not often I stand in a roomful of trainers and feel like the dumbest one in the room. Yet that’s exactly how I felt

Someone far more skilled than I am at my job once told me if I couldn’t explain something simply then I didn’t really understand it.

Force = Mass x Acceleration (Newton’s second law of motion, for those who are a little geeky.) Force = Mass x Acceleration (Newton’s second law