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2019-09-2
Building Stronger & Healthy Shoulders
It 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 shoulders.” Listen, I am the first to be empathetic to people […]
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Where Your Deadlift Gets Stuck
This 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 down to work two days with the US Marines HITT (high intensity tactical training) […]
read more2019-08-22
Why We Don’t Back Squat
Telling 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. The second actually relates to the first but in a different way. People will […]
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One Sided Strength for Better Stability Training
This 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 fitness goals, I don’t care how tough you THINK you are! If you want […]
read more2019-08-20
Why Kettlebell Cleans Are Essential to Real World Power
Okay, 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?! Well, as I’ve written many times, much of my excitement to explore old time strength […]
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Stability Training That Actually Works!
Sometimes we hear people bad mouth methods of training even though we all used them in the past. We play off like we knew the whole time that things didn’t work, but we really didn’t! A great example is the […]
read more2019-08-19
Biggest Key to Injury Resiliency
If there is anything that is impossible to argue when it comes to training, it HAS to be creating strategies that develop better injury resiliency. What MIGHT surprise you though is that probably one of the most important aspects of […]
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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 at times I’ve been a bit prone to those challenges, I try […]
read more2019-08-14
Is Our Fitness Building Athleticism
When 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 of understanding of subjects like programming and locomotion. It made sense that if […]
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