The Truth About a Healthy Spine – Part II
Here is Part Two of Dr. Michael Stare’s guest post on spinal health from yesterday. Enjoy the weekend! In part one I focused on discussing the debate about bracing or hollowing the spine for optimal stability, and revealed evidence suggesting that focusing on just on muscle is a flawed method of improving stability and treating… Read more
Rest-Pause Training: What, Why, Who, and How
In the realm of fitness – and particularly strength and conditioning – there’s no shortage of programs to follow. Moreover, when you factor in all the varying set/rep protocols, rest intervals, tempos, and any other permutations, algorithms, or NASA level geekdom that can come into play when designing a program or general template…..it’s easy to… Read more
Soccer Players: To Squat or Not To Squat?
Whenever people think of Cressey Performance, there are probably two things that immediately pop into their heads: 1. Deadlifts. And…. 2. Baseball. And neither of the two should come as a surprise. For starters, we kinda have an affinity for deadlifts. Walk into the facility at any given moment throughout the day and you’re bound… Read more
Want To Really Earn Your Cake?
My sincerest thoughts go out to all of those who live in the NorthEast (particularly New England), and it’s my hope everyone made it through Snowmeggedon 2013 safely and without much incident. I’m not going to sugarcoat anything: Boston got its butt handed to it, with roughly 30+ inches of snow. We woke up Saturday… Read more
Miscellaneous Miscellany Monday: Yes, I Watched the Golden Globes. Don’t Judge Me!
I just realized it’s been a good 5-6 weeks since I’ve done one of these, which is just completely unacceptable. Part of me feels like I’m doing a disservice to everyone by “wasting” a day to post about random shit. I mean does everyone really care that I watched every minute of the Golden… Read more
A Critical Reply to an Uncritical Coach
Today’s post comes from the one and only Bret Contreras. As he’ll note below, I received an email from a fan of my blog asking me for my opinion on some candid remarks she overheard one of the strength coaches at her university regurgitate to a few other students. And by using the word regurgitate… Read more
36 Things You May Not Have Known About Me
Using the sage words of 50 Cent: Go, go, go, go, go, go Go shawty, it’s your birthday. We gonna party like it’s your birthday. We gon’ sip Bacardi crush grassfed beef, like it’s your birthday. And you know we don’t give a *bleep*, it’s not your birthday. In case you weren’t picking up what I… Read more
Can I Workout Today?
I love Tuesdays. For me Tuesday is like everyone else’s Sunday because, as un-conventional as it is, it’s a regularly scheduled “day off” for me. I know, that was all sorts of confusing, so let me try to clarify. I don’t have a standard weekend like most people. I work on Saturday (and sometimes even… Read more