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2026-08-20
The “Just Push the Plate Away” Myth And Why It Fails Almost Everyone
If you’ve spent any time in fitness spaces, you’ve heard some version of it: weight loss really just comes down to willpower. Eat less. Push the plate away. Want it badly enough, and the rest takes care of itself. It’s […]
read more2026-08-18
5 Key Movements to Help Prevent (and Address) Knee Issues
Knee pain rarely starts at the knee. Most of the time, it’s the result of what’s happening or not happening at the joints and tissues around it: the ankle, the hip, the core, and the deceleration mechanics that control how […]
read more2026-08-15
How I Train Even When I Don’t Feel Great
I’ll be honest with you: there are plenty of days I don’t feel inspired to train. My health conditions mean I’m competing for energy on a daily basis, and my chronic pain isn’t consistent, some days it’s manageable, other days […]
read more2026-08-1
Why Rotational Training Might Be the Missing Piece in Your Program
Most training programs are built almost entirely around moving forward and backward; squats, presses, rows, lunges. Useful, foundational movements, but they leave out something your body relies on constantly: rotation. You rotate to swing a golf club, throw a ball, […]
read more2026-07-30
Why Reflexive Core Stability IS The Goal
Most people think of “core training” as something you do deliberately tighten your abs, hold a plank, brace before a lift. That kind of conscious bracing has its place, but it’s not actually how your core is designed to function […]
read more2026-07-28
Medicine Ball Slam Deserves Better Than “Just Get Tired”
Walk into almost any gym and you’ll see the same thing happen with medicine ball slams: someone picks up the ball, hoists it overhead, and hurls it down as hard as possible, over and over, mostly as a way to […]
read more2026-07-26
The Healthy Aging Mistake Almost Everyone Makes
As an 18 year old trainer (yea, when I really began) training the “healthy aging” population sounded like training “old people.” To be honest, I was a bit blind to how amazing and powerful training the healthy aging population can […]
read more2026-07-24
Unlocking Better Shoulder, Hip, & Core Stability & Strength
Most people assume building real strength, stability, and mobility requires more: more weight, more exercises, more separate work for each individual quality. Often training these qualities is done as individual components of a workout, not as a way that takes […]
read more2026-07-23
Strength, Stability, Mobility, Conditioning — One Movement
Most training programs build strength, mobility, stability, and conditioning as separate categories. strength, stability, mobility and conditioning work as their own blocks, usually disconnected from one another. It’s an efficient way to organize a program on paper and it’s exactly […]
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