Fancy equipment is awesome. If you have better equipment than the next guy, you’re already a step ahead of the game. Well designed training programs kick ass too. If a good coach writes you a well thought out and individualized program, chances are your training is gonna be just a little bit better than the…
If you’re like most people nowadays, 24 hours in a given day just doesn’t seem to be enough anymore. Time is your most valued commodity, so you’ve got to make the most of it. Because of this, your workouts need to be efficient so you can get in and out of the gym and home…
This past June I attended the Perform Better Summit in Providence, Rhode Island. I saw a ton of great coaches for whom I have an incredible amount of respect for speak on various topics relating to health, fitness and performance. All the presentations were great, yet one topic inadvertently kept popping up. And even though…
Lets talk business for a second. Businesses exist to cater to the needs of their consumers. When they do so, they make money. And who doesn’t love money? Companies, at least the good ones, are always looking to continually improve and evolve for the better by tweaking systems and daily practices, introducing new products, enhancing…
Everyone has their go to method for feeling better. Maybe you like to relax, throw on some smooth jazz and sip some cabernet sauvignon. Maybe a massage gets you feeling loose and mellow. Maybe you like to go for a daily walk with Sparky or Professor Snuggle Pants or whatever you named your dog. I…
*Disclaimer: Apple is apparently obsessed with gluten, so if I missed one of their autocorrects, my bad* I don’t think its any secret by now that I’m a fan of strong, shapely glutes. They just make life easier, and quite frankly, more aesthetically pleasing. Don’t lie…when a girl walks by with an itty bitty waist…
I just turned 28 the other day, and although I don’t feel any different or wiser, I imagine I’m at a point in my life that pretty much officially classifies me as an adult. I’m in the process of having a house built, there’s talks of children in the near future, and my wife was…
If you’re not trying to get better, you’re getting worse. This is especially true in the fitness industry. There’s always new information and research coming out that evolves how you train, how you assess, and how you program for your clients and yourself. If your coach or trainer is doing the same things that trainers…
So a while ago, I wrote an article about the upside of interval training in lieu of long slow distance (LSD) cardio. And I have come to realize… that I may have been wrong. To summarize that article, I argued that interval training improves your anaerobic capacity better than LSD, improves aerobic capacity the same…
Sometimes, less is more. This goes for life and training as well. And sometimes there are exercises that you just don’t really ever need to do. Their long term downside outweighs the short term upside. The exercise that I’m referring to has become a staple in many Crossfit and bootcamp type programs over the last…