Q&A: Does Age and Heavy Training Take a Toll on the Spine?
As you can imagine I get a lot of emails on a daily basis. I get emails from friends, colleagues, clients, Nigerian Princes wanting to give me all their money, and I also get a fair number of emails from people I don’t know asking me any number of health and fitness questions. Below is… Read more
Master the Kettlebell Swing
Before we get to the meat of today’s post I have a few housekeeping items to relay: 1. Today is the last day to take advantage of the 30% discount for my Deadlift Specialization Program. The program itself will never go away (ever!!!) and will always be available to start whenever you’d like, but this… Read more
3 (Not So Common) Mistakes People Make (That Many Don’t Think About) When Trying to Improve Their Deadlift
I don’t claim to know everything. Sure I can regurgitate all the muscles that attach to the scapulae, list all the muscles involved with posterior pelvic tilt, name all the members of the starting line-up for the 1990 Oakland Athletics, recite line-for-line the “I will find, and I will kill you” monologue Liam Neeson uses… Read more
Why the Box Squat is Overrated
There are a lot of things I don’t do anymore that I used to. 1. Unlike when I first moved here eight years ago, I no longer refer to Boston as Beantown. That’s a big no-no amongst locals. Doing so is as sacrilegious as wearing a Laker hat or a Derek Jeter jersey down Boylston!… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
How the Kettlebell Can Improve Your Deadlift
I had an interesting conversation with my good friend and fellow strength coach, Ben Bruno, not too long ago. He and I like to catch up every now and then to 1) discuss our mutual affinity for JP Licks ice-cream and 2) talk some training and fitness shop. He’s originally from New England and worked… Read more
2 Quick Bench Press Fixes
Full disclosure: I hate bench pressing. Not because I think it’s dangerous or anything. I’m just no good at at. By that token I also hate, in no particular order: 1. Salsa dancing 2. Driving stick shift 3. Chess 4. Talking about feelings Well, maybe I’m not giving myself enough credit. My best bench press… Read more