Reviewing the Cressey Performance Fall Seminar – Part Two
Yesterday in PART ONE I reviewed a little less than half the line-up at last weekend’s Cressey Performance Fall Seminar Today, in part two I’ll highlight the rest. The Role of Physical Therapy in a Strength and Conditioning Facility – Eric Schoenberg Eric is the founder, President, and all around badass of Momentum Physical Therapy… Read more
Reviewing the Cressey Performance Fall Seminar – Part One
You know the feeling you get when you demolish an ice-cream sundae so fast that you end up with one of those annoying “brain freezes” which makes you crumble to your knees in agony and forces you to make one of those weird, contorted faces that’s about as unattractive as unattractive can get? No? Well,… Read more
Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 9/20/13
I know I’m going to come across sounding like a broken record here, but I’m going to repeat myself nonetheless. There’s only a little over a week left to take advantage of the early bird special for mine and Dean Somerset’s weekend workshop up in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on October 19-20th. The Boston version held… Read more
Are Speed and Agility Drills Necessary to Get Faster?
“I need my kid to be faster!” It’s a statement that I hear on an almost daily basis at the facility from numerous parents whenever I ask what their (and their kid’s) goals are moving forward. My business partner, Eric Cressey, wrote a fantastic blog post last year titled “Make My Kid Faster” so I won’t… Read more
Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: You’re Not That Busy, Plank Fails, and Offset Loading
I’m sitting outside here on my patio as I type this blog post, and I HAD to share this picture my cat, Dagny, keeping me company. Her and I tend to spend a lot of time out here on my days “off” as I sit outside catching up on miscellaneous stuff like emails, deadlines for… Read more
Tripwires and How They Can Help Improve Your Deadlift
A few months ago I picked up a copy of the New York Times best-selling book Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath, who also penned doozies like Made to Stick and Switch, which cover a gauntlet of human behavorial novelties. This is important because as a fitness professional, and as someone who works with people… Read more
Edmonton Workshop: Dean and Tony’s Sequel (That Doesn’t Suck)
I hope everyone had a relaxing and well deserved Labor Day weekend. The weather here in Boston was piss poor all weekend, so there wasn’t much that Lisa and I were able to do. We did meet up with her old college volleyball team and ate dinner with her coach on Saturday night. And some… Read more
Strengthen Your “Secret” Deadlifting Muscles
OMG – I just completed an awesome bench session with Greg Robins and Jamie Smith, and after mustering up enough energy to drag myself to my office I turned on my laptop to check emails and received a note that my latest article on T-Nation just went live. Sha-zam! I know what some of you… Read more