Keeping Your Clients Healthy Needs To Be Top Priority As a coach, the last thing that should ever happen under your watch is your client or athlete hurting themselves. Some injuries, unfortunately, happen and are unpreventable. But as a coach you must injury prevention must first be prioritized over performance in order [...]
Why Do People Still Ice Injuries? For decades, the go-to advice when treating an injury was the acronym RICE, rest, ice, compression, elevate. We've all heard it before, if you get hurt, you ICE that injury right away! But as athletes, coaches and rehab professionals, we need to stop blindly buying into [...]
"I've Never Seen a Strong Person with a Small Ass." Legendary strength coach Louie Simmons has a way with words, doesn't he? But the man does know a thing or two about building a big, strong powerful posterior chain arguably better than any other coach on earth. Training the posterior chain does [...]
Humans: The Only Dieting Species On Earth The word diet has become synonymous with suffering. The more restrictive a diet is, the more hardcore the dieter feels. Even to the point of bragging about it like you deserve some sort of medal for putting yourself such a dubious challenge. This is no way to [...]
Rebuilding Shoulder Strength, Stability & Performance When it comes to excelling at pull-ups, bench press or literally ANY other movement on earth, having strong and stable shoulders, and also being able to control the mobility of your shoulders and shoulder blades is absolutely imperative for performance and shoulder health. Many people fall [...]
We Cannot Prevent 100% of Injuries, Period It’s one of the hottest terms in fitness today, injury prevention. With the increasing incidence of injuries across the board in both our fitness and sports performance industries came the rise of the phrase “injury prevention” and with it, the popularity of specific training and [...]
Leadership: It Takes More Than a 6-Pack and IG Account The role of today's personal trainer and strength coach has evolved significantly since the inception of the profession just a few decades ago. In order to truly thrive today as a fitness professional, it takes far more than just an appreciation of [...]
The Most Notoriously "TIGHT" Region of The Body Have you ever asked the average person who has been battling chronic lower back pain or a painful hip pinch what they think the problem is? As a physical therapist and coach, I ask these questions for a living. And usually, the answer goes [...]
Stop Letting a Piece of Paper Define You We are in the midst of an orthopedic injury epidemic. More people are hurt than ever before, and shockingly, more people are receiving "conclusive" imaging and quick fix surgical interventions than EVER before. It's time to take a stand. This is a no holds [...]
Just Because You Look Great Doesn't Mean You're Healthy When it comes to preparing for physique competition, most competitors have an all-or-nothing mentality. They will pull out all the stops and do everything possible, except keep their health in check. Let’s be clear, physique competition at a high level is NOT a [...]
