What’s In My Bag: The Grid Foam Roller
You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, Mountain, Central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life and it’s […]
View ArticleShould You Run? Health, Hotness, and Happiness
It was all Mikey’s fault. He moved in slow motion, with grace, as if he was flying. The problem that exists here is that Mikey was moving in slow motion […]
View ArticleSome News from the Clubhouse!
Woah, there’s some impressive things happening at The Enchanted Ninja Clubhouse of Glory and Dreams, and I want to share those with you. When I first read Mark’s article about Creating Culture on […]
View ArticleThis Will Make You Better: Kneeling Cable Chest Press
If you walk into any big-box chain gym and take a poll on the best chest exercise ever, you’re bound to get one answer. More than anything else, from bros […]
View ArticleHiatus: Finding Balance In Your Continuing Education
I took a hiatus from writing last week. Each morning was spent in pajamas, accompanied by a cup of coffee, mostly in silence; and I read. Books, articles, blogs, and everything […]
View ArticleA Challenge To Trainers: Go Be A Bro
It was a pairing of two exercises. Wide grip seated rows with a neutral handle and Fat Gripz, and a Half Kneeling Cook Bar Chop. It was a relatively easy […]
View ArticleThis Will Make You Better: Half Kneeling Cook Bar Chop
The Core doesn’t get any respect. Even with a decade-long deluge of “functional training” strategies, most gym goers finished their physical education in the days of the crunch, completing endless […]
View ArticleFun Over Fitness: First Thoughts From My Bike
Wind in your hair is freedom. More accurately, wind whipping through the vents on your helmet is freedom. Isn’t “Always wear a helmet” the first thing we learn about […]
View ArticleThoughts from The Fitness Summit 2014
The Fitness Summit sucked.* *During the How To Get Published roundtable at the event, Lou Schuler and Bryan Krahn spoke of enticing readers with an opening line that pulls them […]
View ArticleShould You Do High Rep Deadlifts?
1, 2, 3, 5, 20, 30, 40, 50. These are all numbers that I like for the number of reps in a set of deadlifts. Recently, I’ve developed somewhat of […]
View ArticleMother’s Day Metrics and The Benefits of Exercise
I’m making a concerted effort to “turn off” at the end of the day. Stop writing articles or programs, stop listening to audiobooks… but the idea of relaxing stresses me […]
View ArticleTalking Shop with Tony Gentilcore
If you’ve read read my blog or we’ve talked shop about training, you know I have some love for Tony Gentilcore. The interwebz led me to Tony’s blog while I […]
View ArticleHealthy Versus Happy: They’re Really The Same Thing
Striving to live the healthiest life possible or the happiest life possible are not the same thing. Let’s stop confusing the two. Over the weekend I visited Newark, Delaware to attend […]
View ArticleWhat You Can Learn About Hypertrophy from a Raccoon
Glowing. That’s the word I would use to describe the eyes on the Raccoon that visited campsite 94 in Hickory Run State Park on Saturday. The park is in northeastern […]
View ArticleThese Boots Were Made for Rockin’… and Learning, Too.
Last night I had the pleasure of playing drums for These Boots Were Made for Rockin’: An Evening with MFF, Kinky Boots, and Friends at 54 Below. The event was part […]
View ArticleEveryone Is Right. (Even Raw Vegans.)
The match lasted 90 minutes. It was mostly a mental one counting bars of rest, and managing all dynamics between pppp and ffff. For about 90 minutes last night I navigated Mahler’s […]
View ArticleThe Field of Fitness is the Field of Education
If you’re in the field of fitness, you’re in the field of education. You may be in the business of health & hotness, but it’s the field of education, and […]
View ArticleLean Into Discomfort…or Die.
Yesterday I took my first trip to Mountain Creek Bike Park in Vernon, New Jersey. I’ve skied at Mountain Creek three times before, and have been dreaming about riding there […]
View ArticleRecap of the 2014 Perform Better Functional Training Summit
Something has changed within me, something is not the same… For example, I’ve taken to openly quoting Defying Gravity, which is from the musical Wicked and quite obviously a song […]
View ArticleManaging the Message: What You Say Matters
Somewhere in my head I’ve created the memory that during my very first session as a trainer, I told someone to create external rotation torque to resist biomechanically necessary internal […]
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