3 Ways to Improve Your Squat
Among the many gems that I gleaned this past weekend during Greg Robin’s Optimizing the “Big 3” workshop was the notion that, contrary to popular thought, the purpose of supplemental work (or exercise) isn’t so much to make an exercise harder, but rather to address a some form of “kink” in one’s technique. One such […]
How to Get Stronger
There are two types of people in the world: those who love Chipotle and those who hate it those who overanalyze E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G and those who don’t. Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk Take the philosophical question “what’s the meaning of life?” for example. Not to insinuate that this is a question that doesn’t deserve to be overanalyzed – […]
Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 8/22/14
Before we get to this week’s list of Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work I wanted to quickly remind everyone about mine and Dean Somerset’s Excellent Workshop High-Five the weekend of October 18th in Washington, DC. You may be wondering what the heck is an Excellent Workshop High-Five? Well, for starters we couldn’t […]
How to Train For Power
First off: Like, WHOA! It’s been bonkers on the site the past few days. Tuesday’s post, An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Told a Women “Don’t Get Too Muscular,” pretty much won the internet for a 48 hour stretch and has been getting a ton of positive feedback and commentary. It’s by far been […]
The “Key” to Results. A Hollywood Actor Tells the Fitness Industry What’s Up.
I had an interesting interaction on Facebook yesterday I wanted to share with everyone. No, it has nothing to do with an internet troll trying to one-up me (although it happens a lot). And no, it has nothing to do with ice or buckets or pouring anything over my head (which, I happily did thank […]
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