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Continue reading →: How One Dumb Decision Set My Training Back WeeksI broke my own rule and paid the price. Here’s what my hamstring strain taught me about training smart, avoiding ego lifting, and staying consistent.
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Continue reading →: 10 Coaching Cues that Will Make You Bulletproof (Part 2)Last week I discussed the first four coaching cues that you can use to not only take your athleticism and lifting game to new heights, but to also remain healthy and durable to tackle the things that everyday life throws at you. Here is part 2 of that same series, looking at…
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Continue reading →: 10 Coaching Cues That Will Make You BulletproofWhether your goal is to get stronger, more powerful, improve athleticism, or you are simply looking to move and feel better, incorporate the following coaching cues into your exercise programs and learn what it’s like to Train Smart and Hard. Maintain Three Points of Contact (“tripod”) with feet A lot…
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Continue reading →: (Harnessing in order to) Maximize Your PowerIf you’re anything like me, you love being in the gym. You love trying to set and accomplish new physical goals. Whether that’s trying to set a new PR in your strength phase, increasing your broad jump or vertical jump in your power phase, or lasting 10 seconds longer on last week’s…
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Continue reading →: Installment #2: Why Everyone Should…While I firmly believe in individualization and program design built around injury history, movement limitations, and experience level, there are certain things I feel the entire population (athlete or adult) can benefit from doing (and doing so safely). This week’s installment will look at one of the major exercises/lifts that I…
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Continue reading →: Installment 1: Why Everyone Should…While I firmly believe in individualization and program design built around injury history, movement limitations, and experience level, there are certain things I feel the entire population (athlete or adult) can benefit from doing (and doing so safely). This week`s installment is going to look at one of my all-time…
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Continue reading →: Optimizing Movement Series: Maximizing your Warm-upA lot of people out there like to hop on the treadmill or spin bike, take a few laps around the building, or row for 10 minutes and consider that a sufficient warm-up prior to exercise. While that’s all certainly better than performing no warm-up at all, including proper dynamic drills…
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Continue reading →: “Optimizing Movement” Series: Upper Body SMR You Should Be Doing DailyMy ‘Optimizing Movement Series’ will serve as an opportunity to address certain areas of training, prehab, and movement prep work that is absolutely imperative to preventing injury and increasing your performance. The initial part of the series will address movement quality issues, while parts later in the series will discuss methods that…