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3 Ab Exercises for Powerlifting and Strongman
To perform these exercises correctly, you need to learn how to breathe and brace properly. But once you do, it will pay off big time.
Empowering Intellectuals: Reclaiming the Body — Muscularity, Bone Density, and Lifestyle
In part one I addressed some general definitions and discussed the issues of age group, level of activity, previous training experience, and body fat. Now we address muscularity, injuries, bone density, and the lifestyle factors that impact your health.
My Top Five Posterior Chain Exercises and Why You Need To Do Them
These exercises will provide you with a great deal of return on investment. They will not only make you stronger but also healthier and more stable in the squat, bench press, and deadlift.
5 Ways You're Rejecting Self Improvement As A Coach
I recently started going through some old boxes and found an article I printed and saved when I coached at Denison. The information was pertinent for coaches then and it still is now.
Empowering Intellectuals: Reclaiming the Body
It is a challenge amongst intellectuals to talk about the human body in ways that won't immediately elicit an ideological defensive reaction. But we can try.
6 Steps to Landing An Internship
Are you willing to stand out? Are you willing to do what it takes to get where you want to be?
Set the Standard
Change 'I' to 'we' and now you really have something: a team, with everyone working toward a common cause.
The Meathead’s Guide to Passing the CISSN Exam
The CISSN test is notorious for being very difficult. I know many who have failed it, multiple times. So of course I wanted to get it. Go big or go home. Here's how I did it.
Applications and Benefits of Tempo Training
Tempo training has the potential to be highly specialized to meet whatever metabolic demands, fiber type, or performance goal an athlete wants to develop.
The Next Cup of Coffee
I found the one thing that I was missing, and you might be too. The one thing that is a bigger energy booster than any cup of coffee.
Hyperplasic Gains?
The running idea in the field of muscle is that you can increase the cross-sectional area of a muscle cell (hypertrophy) but not the number of cells per muscle (hyperplasia). Is this idea accurate?
Muscle Memory: The Three Key Muscle Fiber Changes
The muscle memory phenomenon is a multi-faceted process with many different areas of the body having a different “memory” in relation to degree and timeframe. Let's look deeper into this process.