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Build Your Base: Pedestal Footwear 2.0

This, my friends, is super cool. Please read on. Most people who have been following me know that when I left Cressey Sports Performance back in 2015 and started my own gym I was quick to affiliate myself with a small Boston-based company called Pedestal Footwear. Granted one of the co-owners – Brendan McKee –… Read more

Are the Weights You’re Using Heavy Enough? Too Heavy?

Today’s post is more or less an addendum or brief update to THIS article I wrote a few months ago answering the question “how much weight should I be using?   For many lifters – rookies in particular – it’s a perplexing task to figure out what’s an appropriate load to be using on any given… Read more

The Over Warm-Up: And How It Can Help You Lift More Weight

The warm-up. Lets be honest: most of you reading either skip it altogether or discreetly brush it to the side as something you know you should be doing, but, you know, don’t. I’m not here to judge. I do it too. I don’t feel I need to sit here like an overbearing parent and type… Read more

Strive For Progress Not Perfection: Squat Edition

My dream as a kid was to be He-Man play professional baseball. Growing up in Middle-of-Nowhere, NY made this dream a bit more of challenge because 1) I often had to resort to doing things alone and 2) I didn’t have a ton of access to watching baseball. My parent’s house was outside of town lines,… Read more

Miscellaneous Miscellany Monday: Stuff I’m Wearing, Reading, Watching, and Pontificating

I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend and have had ample time to recover from their Halloween candy induced insulin coma. Don’t worry, I’m not judging. If you want to dress up as a Stormtrooper or slutty vampire and walk to a party while double fisting Butterfingers, have at it. This needs to happen more… Read more

How Lifters Can Unleash Athletic Power

Today’s guest post comes courtesy of strength coach and writer Eric Bach. Eric’s a coach I respect a lot and someone who’s consistently pumping out quality content. His new resource, The Four Week Power Primer, is on sale starting TODAY. How Lifters Can Unleash Athletic Power What You’ll Learn – Raw Strength isn’t enough. 
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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

Unspoken Gym Rules: You Joined a Gym!? Great! Now What?

There are a lot of rules we have to follow. I’m all for following them, but sometimes it gets exhausting. In elementary school (grades 1-5 here in the States), on top of learning our multiplication tables and how to write in cursive (maybe they don’t teach that anymore? I don’t know), we’re taught to raise… Read more