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Building Stronger & Healthy ShouldersIt is something I hear all the time, especially because of our infamous clean and press test. “I’d like to do those things, but I have really bad shou
Where Your Deadlift Gets StuckThis past week was something truly special. Being able to spend time with one of the top professionals in our industry, Gray Cook, and then heading doWhy We Don’t Back SquatTelling people we don’t back squat usually gets one of two reactions. The first being that people think we are “soft” and not serious about training. 
One Sided Strength for Better Stability TrainingThis week I’ve been dedicating a lot of discussion to both injury resiliency and stability training. Why? For one, if you hurt, you won’t achieve your
Why Kettlebell Cleans Are Essential to Real World PowerOkay, let’s address the elephant in the room. Why is the “sandbag guy” talking about kettlebells? What “right” do I have to talk about kettlebells?! W
Biggest Key to Injury ResiliencyIf there is anything that is impossible to argue when it comes to training, it HAS to be creating strategies that develop better injury resiliency. Wh
Why Train Your Glutes Like This!After 15 years of doing the same thing it is easy to get burned out and frustrated by how slow change happens. While that is definitely possible and a
What’s A Good Warm-up?One of the most effective things we do at DVRT is to show coaches and fitness enthusiasts how to be more time efficient with their training. As a popu
Is Our Fitness Building AthleticismWhen it came to releasing our final installments of our L.I.F.T. certification, it made sense to bring in someone who has such a unique and high level
Most Important Ideas for Successful WorkoutsWhen it comes to having successful workouts people always rush to look for “magical” exercises, training equipment, and so forth. Sadly, they are ofte
The Best Functional Fitness You Aren’t Doing!I’m actually really relieved! Believe it or not, I was holding my breathe quite a bit when we released our new L.I.F.T. (Loaded Integrated Functional 
Should We Lift Weights Anymore?Fitness is an extremely cyclical industry. Stick around long enough and you will see trends come full circle. Sometimes it is because we have a better
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Smarter Mobility TrainingAs I am still on a bit of a high from this weekend’s last Perform Better Summit of the year, I am excited to share so many of the ideas that make thes
The Truth of Athletic PerformanceBelieve it or not, I actually started my career in Strength & Conditioning. Well, sorta. I interned at Arizona State University with their strength anThe Most Misunderstood Core MuscleSay the word “core” to a fitness professional and half the people will roll their eyes and the other half of people will think you are talking just ab
Fastest Way To Fix Knees & Low BacksWhy do we focus so much on issues like knees, low backs, and shoulders. I would like to think it is because they are often the BIGGEST obstacles in pe
Bringing the Side Planks to Life!If there is anything that makes me happy, it is seeing when other fitness professionals have those “ah-ha” moments in our system. You see their eyes l
Do You Know Stability Training?!There is no doubt that functional fitness topics like stability training are hot debated ideas. Largely because we do a poor job defining and understa
The Best Power Core Training ExercisesIf there are two things we seem to discuss a lot in our DVRT blog posts it is probably power and core training. That is largely because these are such
Why Going MAX IS Functional FitnessIf there is an exercise in our DVRT system that really gets the crowds intrigued it is our MAX drills. Most people think our MAX (multiple axis) drill4 Drills That Build Strong & Healthy Shoulders Better!This past weekend’s Perform Better Summit in Long Beach marked the 4th weekend out of about 5 that I was fortunate enough to speak at a national confe
The REAL Power of This Core ExerciseWhen you first think about it, being the inventor of something should give you some unique perspective upon that “things” use. No, I didn’t invent the
The Best Power Training You Aren’t UsingWe do it a lot in training, we hold certain exercises on a pedestal when it comes to training specific qualities. For example, squats are for strong l