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What Should you Expect from your Fitness Program?
There is no shortage of exercise regimens to choose from today. Weight training, cardio and yoga have all been divided up into branded fitness organizations who provide their own spin on what fitness should be. By and large these programs all have in common that they...
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4 Snatches You’ll do in CrossFit
Olympic lifting is my favorite way to spend time in a gym. As a CrossFitter who first got into weightlifting several years ago I was convinced increasing my 1 rep max in each lift and developing my technique to the max was going to make me better at CrossFit. While in...
Training with Intent
My whole life coaches have told me to “get something out of it” when referring to training drills or exercise. What does that even mean? I have even used it myself without a well-defined expectation in my mind of what exactly I was asking of my clients and athletes....
Phase Based Nutrition
Different training elicits different physiological responses and cause different levels of muscle breakdown. Depending on the type, intensity and duration of your training, your body will need varying fuels to repair and recover the damaged tissues. Here are five...
What the Function!?!
Functional fitness is a buzzword that permeates popular fitness methodology. Exercises that get classified as “functional” tend to be multi-joint movements where you have to use your body as a whole. This is actually a pretty good definition, seeing as how life tends...
6 Reasons Movement Quality should be your Priority
When fatigue gives way to exhaustion you’re left with nothing but instinct to sustain you. When this happens will your precise and focused training support you and allow you to power through, or will your shortcuts and “good...
Training Plans, Athlete Intuition, and the Open Space
We make a big distinction between training and testing. We map out generalized plans for our athletes for the long term when they come on board and we stick with these plans because we understand that this is the most effective method for producing both high level...