Do You Really Have Tight Hamstrings?

Interestingly, many trainees and coaches make the mistake that squat depth is solely about tissue length. In essence the thought process is such that one generally assumes the reason why someone can’t get to depth is because of poor tissue length and quality. While true much of the time, on occasion, it’s a bit more… Read more

Form Nazi Etiquette

I had an interesting discussion with one of our new interns, Paul, the other day. As is stands, this is the first full week for our new interns, and to say that they were thrown into the gauntlet at the start of the week is an understatement. They went straight from orientation Monday morning, to… Read more

Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work

I know, I know, I’m being REALLY lame as of late with lack of content lately, but I promise things will kick into high gear in a few days when I’m caught up with all the extra things I need to catch up on. Incidentally, we had our busiest day ever at CP yesterday, hitting… Read more

Exercises You Should Be Doing: GODDAMMIT, ERIC!!!11!1!

You know, everyone thinks that Eric Cressey is like sooooo smart and serious all the time, and that he’s this world renowned strength coach that people look up to and all that jazz. That is, of course, until I’m filming a video for an online client (and this blog) and he comes flying out of… Read more

The Commercial Gym Conundrum

I was going to do nothing but wish everyone a Happy New Year today, but I got an interesting question from one of my old distance coaching clients yesterday that I wanted to share: Q: I read your blog about a week ago on how anyone looking to put on muscle will also put on… Read more

Lists of 2010

As many of you know from reading this blog on a regular basis, I don’t take myself too seriously. While I like to think I provide some quality content for the fitness minded folk out there, I also like to use this blog as a way to demonstrate that I’m not that much of a… Read more

Top Articles of 2010

In stealing a page from both Eric Cressey and Mike Reinold’s blogging book (hey, you think it’s easy to come up with content on a regular basis?), I decided to go through Google Analytics to check out which articles were the most popular from 2010. And the winners are……. Best. Ad. Campaign. EVER – this… Read more

A Little Tough Love From Mark Rippetoe

I just finished reading a really great article written by Mark Rippetoe titled Who Wants to be a Novice? You Do. In short, he explains why most (and by most, he means YOU) never really ever get over that hump from novice trainee to badass mofo. While I’ll leave it up to you whether or… Read more