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Stop Mindlessly Foam Rolling Like A Jackass

Here’s What You Need To Know… 1. When it comes to foam rolling, there are no absolutes no matter what the experts say. When intelligently programmed with goals in mind, foam rolling can be a highly...

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Stabilize Your Deadlift With Straight Arm Pulldowns

Here’s What You Need To Know… 1. If you want to stay injury free while lifting heavy ass weights for the long run, you better learn how to properly brace and stabilize your shoulder, core and hips and...

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Build a Resilient Set of Glutes with The Pull Through

The glutes are the functional cornerstone of the human body, and anyone who doesn’t agree should review their movement anatomy and gross human biomechanics. The glutes also happen to be one of the most...

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Perfect Supersets For Strength, Muscle & Spinal Health

The Power of Programming Supersets One of the easiest ways to cut time off your workouts and add a challenging metabolic component to hypertrophy-specific training is by including the intelligent...

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Ramp Up Your Major Lifts For Performance & Injury Prevention

Here’s What You Need To Know… 1. The dynamic warm up is an integral part of the pre-training routine, but it isn’t everything. The use of strategic “ramp up” sets will not only warm you up, but add...

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The Performance Recovery System Recover Faster, Train Harder, Optimize Results

The Foundations of Recoverability With the sky rocketing popularity of high intensity training across the board in our fitness and sports performance industries that’s predicated on the “more is...

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Fix Your Ankle Mobility In Five Minutes A Systematic 5-Step Approach To...

Unlock Those Ankles Once And For All Poor ankle mobility has been blamed for damn near everything in the weight room, especially in lifters and athletes that are chronically hurt and move like shit....

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These 5 Lifting Crutches Are Killing Your Gains The Truth About Belts,...

Ditch Your Dependency on Lifting Equipment The fluffy functional training gurus will tell you not to use them. Die-hard strength sport athletes and ego driven meatheads have made them a mandatory part...

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5 Foam Rolling Myths Debunked Setting The Record Straight On True Foam...

Setting The Foam Rolling Record Straight Ah, the rise of the roller! If you showed someone a foam roller in a gym 20 years ago, they’d give you a dumbfounded look and direct you to the free weights...

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5 Staple Single Arm Dumbbell Rows You Should Be Doing The Best Row Variations...

The King of All Rows If your goal is to develop a strong and muscular back that looks as good as it performs, you better damn well place an emphasis on the row. The single arm dumbbell row and its many...

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Should You Go To Physical Therapy School? 7 Industry Leaders Sound Off On The...

The Emergence of the Hybrid Coach In Fitness With the marked rise of the incidence of injury in sport and fitness over the last decade, many personal trainers and strength coaches have been forced to...

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The Biggest Mistake You’re Making With Shoulder Training Build Bigger,...

Theoretical “Pain-Free” Shoulder Exercises Gone Wrong With the ever growing incidence of shoulder pain among the active population, many in the sports performance and fitness industries are seeking...

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There’s No Such Thing As Injury Prevention Redefining The Way We Look at...

We Cannot Prevent 100% of Injuries, Period It’s one of the hottest terms in fitness today, injury prevention. With the increasing incidence of injuries across the board in both our fitness and sports...

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Top 30 Row Variations For A Stronger Back & Healthier Shoulders

The Pain-Free Power of The Row The upper body pull pattern may be the most misunderstood upper body movement, especially as it pertains to developing bulletproof shoulders and a resilient back. While...

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The Science of Finding The Perfect Squat Stance Anthropometrical...

DEBUNKING DEEPLY ROOTED SQUAT DOGMA The squat has been one of the most debated topics across demographics in the fitness and sports performance industries for as long as people have been lifting...

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Top 6 Breathing Drills To Reduce Stress and Optimize Performance

Fix Your Breathing To Optimize Your Performance If you’ve hit a strength, endurance or performance plateau, or are just feeling beat to shit after every training session with the inability to recover,...

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No Machines? No Problem: 5 Simple Machine Movement Modifications

Yes, Sometimes Machines Are Superior To Free Weights In the midst of the rise of the functional training movement, machine training has become one of the most demonized methods in today’s sports...

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The 4 Worst Types Of Online Trainers Don't Get Burned By Wannabe "Coaches"...

The Rise and Fall of Online Fitness Coaching I’m well aware this article will piss a lot of people off, but it needs to be said. Because over the last few years there’s been an epic rise in online...

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Top 15 Face Pull Variations For Shoulder Health & Performance

Nothing Beats The Face Pull For Pain-Free Performance The face pull is THE pain-free shoulder staple that belongs in most all programs no matter the goal or training focus. If you have shoulders, you...

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CRISIS MODE: The State of Health & Fitness

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but we’re in the midst of a serious health crisis. We really shouldn’t be surprised. I mean, we’re experiencing record rates of obesity, systemic disease, and...

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