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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 8/23/13

I know, I know – I’m posting this badboy up a bit later than usual, but I actually have a legitimate excuse. For starters, ummmmm, hello??? Freakin Ben Affleck is slated to be the next Batman!!!! I don’t know how I feel about this yet. Part of me is like “hell yeah.” He’s an often […]

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The Tabata Delusion

Anyone in the strength and conditioning realm, or general fitness for that matter, has at one time or another come across the name ‘Tabata’ during their various fitness related rendezvous. Most common would be those interested in interval training for fat loss. Back in 1996 Dr. Izumi Tabata and his colleagues submitted what is now […]

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Are We Doing Lunges Wrong? Hint: Maybe

As some of you know I had the luxury of spending the past few days attending Phase II of the Elite Baseball Mentorship hosted at my stomping grounds, Cressey Performance, listening to Eric Cressey, Eric Schoenberg, and Matt Blake discuss, well, training baseball players. And while training baseball players is our Soup de Jour at […]

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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: Personal Trainers that Suck, Lack of Progress, and Lift Heavy Stuff

For those wondering what the picture is on the left, that’s this week’s Cressey Performance nutrition tip. While we do go out of our way to post beneficial tips for our clients – like providing simple strategies to increase fruit and veggie consumption, protein shake recipes, and letting them know that a kitten dies every […]

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5 Ways to Make Bench Pressing More Shoulder Friendly

The bench press. There’s no mistaking it’s popularity. Walk into most gyms and you’re bound to see an inverse relationship between the number of bench press stations available and squat racks. Likewise, it’s no coincidence that there’s a lot barrel chested guys walking around with chicken legs than vice versa. I get it, though. As […]

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