Progress in the gym is much like life. It’s never in a straight line. There are times when you’re adding weight, adding reps and making rapid gains. Then, the time comes when you and the barbell butt ... Continue Reading
3 Quick and Easy Tips to Improve Your Bench Press Today
Ah the bench press, a movement that has bred millions of a love/hate relationship across the world. The bench press is often the first barbell movement that beginners tackle in the gym, and it's ... Continue Reading
5 Dynamic Bodyweight Exercises to Improve Overall Fitness
Everyone can benefit from adding some more dynamic bodyweight exercises into their training. As a functional training coach, I often see that ALL of my clients feel stronger and healthier when diversifying ... Continue Reading
The Right Way to Do the 3 Step Squat Walkout
Squats are hard enough as is, and when you don't have a dialed in squat walkout, then they only become tougher. Any weathered athlete will tell you that a strong squat walkout can be make or break when ... Continue Reading
Pulling the Slack Out of the Bar Is Key for Strong Deadlifts
A strong deadlift is the culmination of strength, power, coordination, and technique. An athlete needs to possess a baseline level of all of these variables to efficiently perform strong deadlift singles ... Continue Reading
Review: Magic Spoon Is the Low Carb Cereal Making Breakfast Fun Again
The Brooklyn-based Magic Spoon has keyed into an important component of the human condition: growing up kind of sucks. You have to pay bills, you have to go to work, you have to go to the gym, and you ... Continue Reading
4 Research-Backed Ways Lifting Weights and Eating Right Improve Mental Health
One of the greatest injustices is the fact that lifting heavy weights and eating a lot of protein has become associated with stupidity and immaturity. You know the stereotype: musclebound gorillas spend ... Continue Reading
How to Use Inter-Set Work to Build a Stronger Bench Press
There is a lot that goes into building a strong bench press. Outside of needing a baseline foundation of strength, you also need absolute precision when it comes to executing reps properly. There are ... Continue Reading
5 Exercises to Strengthen a Lagging Jerk
Split, power, and squat jerks all are effective ways to hoist heavy loads overhead. Many lifters, however, find themselves struggling to properly move heavy loads from the front rack to the lockout ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Try Lifting Weights from a Kneeling Position More Often
Most strength exercises are done standing, sitting, and lying down. But there can be real benefits to stopping halfway — and performing exercises on your knees. Lifting from your knees trains muscles ... Continue Reading
The 5 Types of Dietary Fiber Athletes Should Know About
Fiber is often recommended as part of a healthy diet for many reasons, from promoting digestive health and blood glucose control to lowering of “bad” LDL cholesterol. But these aren’t the only reasons ... Continue Reading
The New Way to Train Post-Activation Potentiation (PAP)
Post-Activation Potentiation (PAP) is a training concept used by strength and conditioning coaches when the goal is increasing force output and rate of force development. Generally, the methodology ... Continue Reading
6 Squat Variations to Use When Barbell Back Squatting Is Not An Option
Back squats are one of the best exercises to build leg strength, muscle mass, and athletic capacity. There are times, however, when we may find ourselves unable to perform them. While the below exercises ... Continue Reading
Chapter 2: How Under Armour Is Helping James Newbury Prep, Train, and Recover
“Mate, it looks like you’re in the hurt locker now,” James Newbury says to me as I roll up to the coffee shop. On the shop’s patio, Newbury is sitting around a table sipping an almond latte accompanied ... Continue Reading
Chapter 1: How Under Armour Is Helping James Newbury Prep, Train, and Recover
I was about 27 miles into the ride when I realized I “bonked” - a term that I had never heard before - but quickly began to understand. James Newbury and the whole Under Armour Athlete Performance Team ... Continue Reading
Pin Press Guide – Form, Muscles Worked, and Variations
Building a stronger bench is often at the top of every powerlifting and strength athlete. When looking at isolating weaknesses in the bench press, lifters can break down the individual angles and muscle ... Continue Reading
Why Tennis Players Should Lift Weights (Plus Two Free Workouts)
Long ago strength training for tennis wasn’t in vogue, even among the professional players. Even the great John McEnroe (winner of the US Open in 1979, 80, 81, and 84), famously avoided strength ... Continue Reading
3 Hotel Workouts for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Lifters
Training while traveling. For some, this can be the difference between improving their fitness, losing the last few pounds, and helping keep them sane as they take on life and business stress. It’s no ... Continue Reading
5 Ways to Improve HRV (Heart Rate Variability) (Brought to You by WHOOP)
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a fantastic tool for athletes to use to assess readiness and recovery. Everyone has a baseline HRV number, which serves as a suggestion for how physically ready one is to ... Continue Reading
No Squat Rack? Here Are 5 Leg Exercises to Perform In a Smith Machine
Barbell squats, deadlifts, and lunges are staples of any leg day. But what happens when you find yourself with only a Smith machine? The Smith machine, while not truly a free weight movement, can offer an ... Continue Reading
What Is Heart Rate Variability? How to Use and Monitor HRV (Brought to You by WHOOP)
Over the last five years, heart rate variability (HRV) has grown in popularity as a useful tool for assessing recovery and training readiness. If you’re new to the concept of HRV and how it can translate ... Continue Reading
Squats Causing You Low Back Pain? Try This Unilateral Leg Workout
Ah, the pains of low back pain. You set up under the barbell, get tight, unrack, and physically feel those vertebrae compressing under the weight. Sometimes it’s not even an injury; sometimes, no matter ... Continue Reading
15 Steps to Nailing Your First Powerlifting Meet
At my first powerlifting competition, I bombed. This means that I wasn’t able to complete at least one attempt of either the squat, bench press, or deadlift. In my case, it was the bench press, which was ... Continue Reading
5 Overhead Press Mistakes, Why They Happen, and How to Fix Them
The overhead press is a compound upper body movement that develops serious strength and mass. Powerlifters, strongman athletes, weightlifters, and general fitness-goers alike will benefit from including ... Continue Reading