Start Stretching To Build Muscle & Unlock Mobility Simultaneously If you've been left frustrated after trying to "fix" your mobility by slaving over the foam roller and religiously stretching each day, here's the reality. If soft tissue work and stretching didn't work the first hundred times you've tried it, it's not going to work [...]
Fix Your Technique With More Effective Cueing As athletes and coaches, our results are highly depend on proper movement execution and the continuous progress towards optimizing movement patterns to build a foundation of pain-free function. One of the single most challenging aspects of coaching is individualizing foundational movement patterns to best fit [...]
You're Deadlifting With The Wrong Grip To Build Strength & Resilience If you've been strength training for long enough, chances are you've been dogmatically taught to only barbell deadlift with a mixed grip. Not only does the alternating hand position utilizing one underhand and one overhand grip place you at a higher risk [...]
Build Your Upper Back To Save Your Shoulders With the rising incidence of chronic shoulder pain and dysfunction running ramped throughout the active population, something needs to be done to protect and rebuild healthy and pain-free shoulders. The actual mechanism of generalized front sided shoulder pain can stem from a host of postural [...]
How To Perfectly Customize The Deadlift To YOU The sumo deadlift has become popularized in the training world as an alternative option to the conventional deadlift. Let’s be clear – we believe that the deadlift is a foundational movement pattern that belongs in nearly every single type of training program. But remember, the [...]
Unstable Training... You Mean Like The Bosu Ball?! When I walk into many gyms, I often feel that I am witnessing a totally butchered, and much less elegant version of Cirque Du Soleil. I have seen countless people hopelessly flailing about on Bosu balls, wobble boards, and many other trivial devices, not [...]
There may be no term more polarizing in our sports performance and fitness industries than functional training over the past decade. But in lieu of it’s popularity, it’s apparent that people simply don’t know the true meaning, theory or application of this type of training methodology. Luckily, we have the “godfather” of [...]
Carry Yourself To Real Core Strength Loaded Carries are about as basic of an exercise as you’re going to get. In fact, they should be a staple of your program along with the other fundamental movements of push, pull, squat, and hip hinge that can be loaded heavy and trained hard, all [...]
If the only thing that you achieve by cranking out endless sets of dumbbell lateral raises is broken down and achy shoulders, chances are you are training this movement totally wrong. Before you throw away the lateral raise for good deeming it an "inherently dangerous" movement for the shoulders, you better do your homework [...]
There's No Faking The Mastery of Foundational Movement Patterns While there are no "exercises" that are absolute necessities in smart strength training programs, there are six foundational movement patterns that every single person walking the earth should be able to develop, load and master. And yes, I mean everyone. These fundamental movement [...]
