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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 5/2/14

Hey, hey, hey! So, like about 73% of the entire fitness industry population I’m in Kansas City for the weekend for The Fitness Summit. You know it’s a legit event when said event begins with the word “THE.” I’ll speaking alongside the likes of Bret Contreras, Alan Aragon, Brad Schoenfeld, David Dellanave, Jen Sinkler, Cassandra […]

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A Response to Anyone Who Feels Deadlifts Are Destroying Everyone’s Spine

A HUGE thank-you to Bret Contreras for his contribution to this post. You’re my boy blue! A little backstory. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away A few years ago – back in 2010 – I wrote a blog post in response to someone claiming that deadlifts were “one of the worst […]

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3 Reasons Your Female Clients Aren’t Seeing Results

Note from TG: Today’s post comes courtesy of Molly Galbraith. She and the rest of the Girls Gone Strong pack released their new resource, The Modern Women’s Guide to Strength Training, today. Molly was kind enough to write a little sumthin, sumthin to serve as an adjunct to its release. Enjoy – it’s a doozy! If […]

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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 4/25/14

I became the regular “Friday Bootcamp Guy” at CP a few weeks ago. I had been filling in sporadically the past year to 1) give Greg a bit of a break from having to get up at the butt-crack of dawn and 2) for a slight change of pace on my end. Coaching bootcamps allows […]

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An Open Letter to (New) Fitness Professionals

I know for some this may come across as nothing more than me playing the role of some ornery old man yelling at you to get off his damn lawn. And it some ways, you’re correct. I like to think, though, that after 12 years of doing what I do, logging thousands of coaching hours, […]

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