Clik here to view.
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 ArticleClik here to view.
Should 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Some 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 ArticleClik here to view.
This 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Hiatus: 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 ArticleClik here to view.
A 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 ArticleClik here to view.
This 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Fun 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Thoughts 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Should 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Mother’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 ArticleClik here to view.
Talking 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Healthy 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 ArticleClik here to view.
What 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 ArticleClik here to view.
These 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Everyone 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 ArticleClik here to view.
The 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Lean 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Recap 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Managing 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 […]
View Article