A Day With Alex Viada: And How To Feel Like the Weakest, Slowest, and Smallest Human Being Ever
We had the pleasure of hosting Alex Viada, owner and President of Complete Human Performance and author of The Hybrid Athlete – this past weekend at Cressey Sports Performance. You’ve seen his name pop up here and there on this site – most notably in an article I wrote recently titled You Down With GPP?… Read more
An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Told Women “Don’t Get Too Muscular”
NOTE: As some of you may or may not know, I’m getting married this weekend. As such, I’m going to be a little hit and miss as far as how often I update the blog for the next week or so. I’m going to be too busy eating my fair share of carrot cake and… Read more
How the Powerlifts and Sport(s) Go Together Like Peanut Butter & Jelly
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of strength coach, and good friend, Kelsey Reed. Some of you may recall Kelsey’s popular post – Fitness Marketing to Females: Don’t Be a Victim! – from a few months ago. She’s back. And this time she’s discussing the powerlifts and how applicable they are when training for sport(s). Enjoy…. Read more
The Key to Program Design. Diamonds?
I’m heading to my alma mater this weekend to take part in the 2nd Annual Strength & Conditioning/Personal Training Symposium at SUNY Cortland. I – along with my colleagues Nick Tumminello, Mark Fisher, John Gaglione, and Joy Victoria – will be speaking to undergrad and graduate students (in addition to the event being open to… Read more
Pause Your Lifts For Better Performance
I was teaching a workshop not long ago, and the topic of corrective exercise came up. It’s a term some fitness professionals live by, and often make their living bastardizing. It’s also a term that makes some fitness professionals – including myself – want to jump into a live volcano. All you have to do… Read more
Do Absolute Strength Athletes Need to Train For Power?
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of TG.com regular, Justin Kompf. This is Justin’s fourth or fifth article on this site, but admittedly it’s been awhile since he’s contributed because he’s gotten all fancy pants and has a job and website and stuff. Today he tackles a “touchy” topic: speed/power training (what it means and how… Read more
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Deadlifters – Part 2
In case you missed it, last week I shared a few thoughts on deadlifting. You can check out part one HERE. In it, rather than regurgitate the same ol’ obvious things most people who write about deadlifts regurgitate (don’t round your back!, good deadlifters don’t “jerk” the bar off the ground, 2+2 = 4, water… Read more
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Deadlifters – Part 1
When I was a junior in college one of my professors had us read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Yeah, I didn’t read it. But who actually reads in college anyways? I was too busy playing baseball, lifting weights, watching Party of Five, and not hanging out with girls because,… Read more