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5 Workout Remedies for When You Feel Weak

What do you do when you’re all set to workout but you’re feeling weak or experiencing low energy? What happens when your training schedule says it’s a big workout today, but you’re just not feeling it? ... Continue Reading

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Proven Strategies for Getting Stronger

In the beginning, it might seem that every time you lift a barbell or swing a kettlebell that you get a little bit stronger. But at some point, you become a veteran athlete and the gains stop coming so ... Continue Reading

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The 4 Vital Elements of Lifting Heavy Things Overhead

In this second part of my interview with Dave "The Iron Tamer" Whitley, he shares tips on utilizing all available strength through power breathing and the right mix of tension and relaxation. He also ... Continue Reading

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Why All BJJ Athletes Need to Strength Train

When two grapplers step onto the mat with equal skill who is going to win? This question is asked frequently in the Brazilian jiu jitsu community. Many athletes feel technique is the only thing that ... Continue Reading

Strength Training Does Not Increase Critical Power

Despite endurance sports being steeped in a tradition that is opposed to strength training, time and time again strength training has proven to be effective for endurance athletes. In a recent study ... Continue Reading

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Ultimate Guide for Lean Gains, Part 2: Your Lifting Program

So you nailed your diet. Atta boy. You can thank Eric for that - he’s given you all the tools to pack on lean mass with carb cycling. But now the problem is you need more than a sound eating plan to build ... Continue Reading

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Training Activities for Athletes: Skill Training Research and How to Apply It, Part 3

In the previous installment in my series on the logical steps to determining the value of a physical training program, I addressed the basic fundamentals on what qualifies an activity as strength training, ... Continue Reading

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9 Sets of Strength Training Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Mistakes are an inevitable fact of life and strength training. But what if you could just learn from those who have been there, done that, and clawed their way out? Here are nine articles to pass you the ... Continue Reading

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Training Activities for Athletes: The Logical Steps to Determine Their Value, Part 2

Last week we examined general guidelines for determining the value of a training program. We also took a brief look at the history of the fitness industry and the results of various endeavors. In doing so, ... Continue Reading

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Integrated Strength: The Right Tool at the Right Time for the Right Person

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I started as a trainer, things were different. The fitness industry of today has grown largely by encouraging people to think of themselves as part of a ... Continue Reading

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Training Activities for Athletes: The Logical Steps to Determine Their Value, Part 1

A multitude of training methods and tools have evolved and now exist in the strength, conditioning, and fitness industry. The inevitable result of an increasing number of fitness professionals, the ... Continue Reading

Man Up and Move On: 10 Simple Ways to Get Out of a Training Rut

No two ruts look the same. Your situation is different, and I understand that. But let me break things down for you. I’m willing to bet your training rut falls into one of these three categories: ... Continue Reading

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The Rules of Strength Training (Part 1): 25 Things I Have Learned

I love learning. I think it’s part of the reason I love lifting - the fact that it is a lifetime journey of learning and strength. I love learning from my own experiences, and sharing with others. I also ... Continue Reading

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What Strength Training Means to Me: How a Bookish Girl Became a Lifter and Coach

My approach to strength training has been shaped largely by my experiences. There really is no better place to learn than under the bar. I don’t intend this to sound fatuous. My background is book learning ... Continue Reading

Strength Training Improves Change of Direction

Change of direction (COD) is a major component of performance in many sports. While linear sprinting (running in a straight line) is often emphasized, COD may be just as important or perhaps even more ... Continue Reading

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Why Your “Max” Isn’t Your Max – The 6 Types of Actual Maxes

While out for dinner with some friends recently, all of them formidable masters athletes, one of them mentioned that she had seen a fellow athlete post on Facebook about his “lifetime max” recently. “What ... Continue Reading

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Unlock the Door to Your Athletic Potential

Click Here to Start Jon Bruney's Free 3-Week Neuro-Mass Program I remember in junior high school the first time I used a locker that had a combination lock. At the beginning of the year I was issued a ... Continue Reading

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Unleash the Power of Neuro-Sets (Book Excerpt)

The following in an excerpt from Jon Bruney's book "Neuro-Mass": The following in an excerpt from Jon Bruney's book "Neuro-Mass": Over the years there have been many different types of ... Continue Reading

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10 Things All Strong People Know

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was written by a man recently thawed out. His manners are not yet caught up. And if you are looking for a moral to this piece, just keep looking. Why should a man ... Continue Reading

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The 10 Most Important Lessons From the Weight Room

The weight room is my home. It is the place I am most comfortable and it is filled with people I love. It is also my laboratory. I am always experimenting, mostly on myself, but sometimes on my clients. ... Continue Reading

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So You Think You’re Badass? 12 Tell-Tale Signs

Badass. Animal. Hardcore. Beast. Words that are often used to describe the ultimate athlete. One who sacrifices anything and everything to get what he or she wants, to get what he or she ... Continue Reading

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Lunges Are for Sissies – Or Are They?

Lunges have long been maligned as being an exercise for sissies. I’m not sure why or how this gym myth has been kept up for so long, but it’s time to stop it. In terms of functional patterns for the legs ... Continue Reading

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Training Partials for Stronger Tendons and Bones

I would say that 99% of the fitness and strength training is focused on the muscles and/or the cardiovascular system. But what about the rest of the body? In studying both modern and old-time strongmen you ... Continue Reading

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7 Topics for Fitness Debate: Time for You to Voice Your Opinion

Often it's an uphill battle and not worth the time to argue - especially on the Internet. And what I’m referring to here are the many controversies and opposing philosophies that exist in the ... Continue Reading

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