Training Articles

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...

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....

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...

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...