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I Crashed Into A Rock. It Taught Me Something
I bounced into a rock on Sunday. I was on my bike, turning through a downhill berm at Mountain Creek Bike Park. I popped out of the turn over a […]
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Take PRIDE in How You Run
NYC Pride kicked off this weekend, celebrating the journey of the gay rights movement. Several of my friends, colleagues, and Ninjas (clients) were part of the 5,414 that participated in […]
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Check Your Opinion: When Empowerment Lead to Entitlement
Everyone has a voice. This message is taught and reinforced during our school career, from pre-Kindergarten through the post-graduate level. Everyone has a voice. Everyone’s voice matters. What about...
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A Better Personal Sales Pitch for Exercise
“Hey man, can I talk to the manager?” I overheard this at the deli around the block from MFF last week, and I was intrigued. Whenever I hear a request […]
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Walking: We All Need Agility
I’ve found myself walking quite a bit more in the last two weeks. A walk across midtown Manhattan, a relaxing morning stroll around the block, a hike up Bear Mountain. […]
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Bringing Balance to the Force: Check That ‘Posture’
On a recent weaving walk through Times Square, I saw Adonis. He was 5’8″ tall, maybe 165lbs, and had relatively low body fat. Okay, so maybe not Adonis. He was […]
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Recommended Reading: Expectations, Emotions & Efficiency
Woah, it’s been a hot minute, so I want to get us back on track with some interesting articles. I have three for this piece that I’d like to share […]
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This Will Make You Better: Cook Squat with Reach
Moving well or moving weight is a balance point of every strength trainee in the world. That balance starts in our warm-up, continues through our work sets, and is part of […]
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Getting Back On: Why Do You Do It?
Four weeks ago, I crashed my bike. I was riding at Mountain Creep Bike Park in Vernon, NJ, and was practicing out one of their “Progression Drops,” essentially a balance beam […]
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You Can’t Rush Progress
4 Hour Work-Weeks, Speed reading, the most efficient multi-tasking ever; we want all of it, and we want it now. Our uber-efficient, Uber using world wants rapid reinforcement. Unfortunately for this...
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Is The Ice Bucket Challenge Helping ALS Research?
Check out the interwebz, bro. Let me give you a run down of the things I’ve seen in the last week: Ebola. Gaza. Robin Williams. People dumping ice on themselves. […]
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Thoughts from the NSCA Connecticut State Clinic
Any day that begins with spinach and blueberries is going to be a good day. I’ve been thinking this for weeks, and it holds true at 6am on Saturdays. Leaving […]
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We All Need Some ‘Balance’ With Our Exercise
Let’s talk about balance. No, we’re not talking about the merits of maintaining short foot posture during split squats, or standing on a BOSU ball. We’re talking about balancing out […]
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High-Volume Tires: A Reminder of the Law of Specificity
This morning I went for a bike ride. I rode up St. Nicholas in Harlem through the Heights to hit the Highbridge Park mountain bike course. There are dirt jumps, […]
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Steward of Strength: How I Believe We Should Coach
This past Monday I celebrate two different one year anniversaries. The obvious one to anyone that I ran into was that after a year of growing a beard, or a […]
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Movement Begets Movement
“A quiet weekend at a bed and breakfast in the Berkshires.” If I were to make a list of the things that I didn’t think I would enjoy, this would […]
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A Punch to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Guys, I’ve been having some thoughts. Loads of them, actually. But there’s one in particular that may seem sacrilegious to my friends and colleagues who are constantly […]
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Don’t Follow Your Dreams (Well, Some of Them)
You can do anything you set your mind to. It always seems impossible until it’s done. Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. [Insert motivational quotes […]
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“Is Yoga Really About Exercise?” Maybe.
Let’s talk about balance. I really enjoy talking about balance in fitness circles, because there is often two tiers of balance discussion. The first tier is obsessed with turning the […]
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This Will Make You Better: Cook Squat with Reach
Let’s talk perspective. At any given point in time, the position that you’re in probably isn’t that important. Slide out to a broader timeline, and I believe that the positions that […]
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