Training hard but still not seeing gains in strength and size? Try taking a harder look at your recovery. It's science.

Crossbody extensions address tissue tolerance and scapular awareness—something to use for direct upper body training AND physical therapy.

No exercise or series of exercises can guarantee injury prevention. It takes a holistic approach with a heaping amount of common sense.

There's no reason to be sidelined into rehab purgatory when dealing with a combination labral tear with bicep tendinopathy. Read how this case study is applicable to you.

I instruct all of my clients to get a full hormone panel at least once a year. Here's how to prepare for these labs and what a comprehensive hormone panel looks like.

Implementation is the easiest part of this exercise because you are using only your available range and not approaching this with a “must have the mobility of a 12-year-old gymnast” mentality. Here's your chance to access planes and ranges of motion that most of us forget even exist.

In my fifties, I started to experience knee pain during and after Olympic lifts, squats, and deadlifts. After a career full of lifting and contact sports, my options were anti-inflammatory medication and gels, surgery, braces, ABI, and PRP. Here's what helped me.

I had my fair share of lower back issues to the point I needed to be fed by my wife. There are only so many times you can go through this before it clicks what the problem is and how to fix it. Here's what I've figured out.

For those involved in the healthcare, fitness, and strength industries, this is a question that has been long debated and has much enthusiasm behind it, creating the ultimate chicken vs. the egg debate in the human body. So which is the answer? How do we know once and for all?

Anyone who’s actually said this and FELT this lack of power knows how frustrating it can be: Despite the EBP nerds saying, "Well, the hip is extending, so the glute must be firing." If you have felt the empty feeling, you know that you’re not firing on all cylinders.

The primary drivers of aging can be narrowly reduced to inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial function. Here's how to manage them.

Why is the multisport athlete of today more burnt out and fatigued as ever?

When it comes to returning an intermediate-advanced lifter to a heavy compound, there are often more factors at play than we initially think. Perfect mechanics probably aren't enough to get you back to where you need to be.

The Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) course I took helped me understand body position optimization so much. I immediately saw how I could use this to help benefit my athletes and clients (and hopefully, I can help you help your clients and athletes).

The intricacies of the thyroid are complicated, so I wanted to triangulate my advice versus just taking one opinion and rolling with it. When I did so, I found that they all had very similar conclusions. Here's my treatment plan.

So here is the decision you need to consider: should you adapt your training in favor of less dangerous styles of exercise and workload, or continue as planned on your strength journey?

For starters, if you have access to equipment during this time, it is recommended that restraint be employed pertaining to exercise intensity and volume as both have been implicated in temporarily suppressing immune system function.

Why is it important to get thyroid testing done? What thyroid markers should be tested? What causes thyroid dysfunction? As I dive into thyroid health and function, these are the questions I'm discovering. I'm still trying to get a better understanding of it all, but here's what I know so far.

Slowly each week, I was getting bigger and bigger — and not the good kind. I exploded from a 130-pound fitness chick to a 200-pound walrus. After a solid three years of impeccable blood lab results, it's time to dabble in my sob story and ultimately share the phases I undertook to regain my health and life.

Today, we’re going to go over the functional implications that our sympathetic dominance has on our musculoskeletal system. P.S. I'm really enjoying writing this series!

I see the same mistakes made over and over, and these mistakes are absolutely huge when it comes to being able to keep training progressively.

Do you fall into the category of lifters who don't move outside of the 1-3 hours spent in the gym? If so, you're not going to last very long in this game. Here's how to increase your longevity as a powerlifter.

Are you not performing optimally because of a tight scapula? Limited scapulae mobility can prevent you from increasing your overhead strength the way you want to.

Physical rehabilitation is as much about the mind as it is the body. The right attitude is the first step to putting a stable, consistent rehabilitation plan in motion.