Neural Charge: A Simple Strategy to Get Stronger and Feel Like a Million Bucks
I’m slow. Not in the “I drive 45 MPH in the left lane on the highway” slow or “I need to give exact change to the cashier so let me dig around in my pocketbook for two nickels and three pennies while everyone else waiting in line taps their foot” slow. No, not quite. And… Read more
Raise Your Hand if You Saw Man of Steel This Weekend. Raises Hand.
As if you couldn’t tell from the title of this post and the picture to the left, like most human-beings with a Y-chromosome in their DNA I went to go see the new Superman movie this past weekend, Man of Steel. And by “went to go see,” what I really mean is that I totally… Read more
How to Increase Your Strength and Performance Instantly (
“Arch your back!” “Okay, now extend your hips at the top.” “Um, uh, push your knees out.” ” Oh, don’t forget to brace your abs, too.” These were cues one of our new interns were giving an athlete the other day while trying to coach him through his very first deadlift session. It wasn’t going… Read more
What Buying a New Car Can Tell You About Your Exercise Routine
The first major purchase I bought when I graduated college was a new car. Okay there was that, a Playstation 2, and what was probably the 7th “limited edition” release of Star Wars on DVD – but who’s counting? The year was 2002. Like I said I had just graduated from college, The Bachelor was… Read more
Fake It Till You Make It: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Fair warning: this isn’t going to be the type of post which delves into anything remotely strength and conditioning related. So if you’re in the mood for talking shop on things like hamstring “tightness” and how I think that’s a BS term (neural or protective tension is more like it), periodization, deadlift technique, or something… Read more
Don’t Let That Injury Derail You
Today’s guest post comes from a former distance coaching of mine, Australian strength coach Shannan Maciejewski. Shannan started working with me when he was coming of a pretty serious ankle injury, and he hired me to help him sift through the program design process as he worked his way back to playing competitive rugby. As… Read more
Boston
Fuck. Sorry for the blatant profanity – but how else to describe what happened yesterday? Like so many of you reading, I remember where I was when 9/11 went down. I was actually in my microbiology lab class either fumbling with a bunsen burner or observing some paramecium colony under the microscope (I can’t remember… Read more
The End Is Near: (Wo)Man Up!
Today’s guest post comes from Justin Kompf who’s a fellow Cortland State Red Dragon and the man responsible for organizing my little homecoming a few weeks ago. At 23 Justin is already doing big things. Not only is he making waves in the fitness industry, but he’s already teaching COLLEGE courses as an adjunct professor… Read more