There's always a new great exercise or exciting new training program, but does it always fit your training goals and needs? Here are a few exercises that you may be better off avoiding in your training.
Competing For Your Fitness
In the fitness community, we often talk about the power of competition in helping people to reach their goals with more certainty than it likely deserves. Especially those of us that actively compete in some type of sport. We’re driven to compete and think everyone else should be, too. But, whether you truly train to compete or workout to look and feel better really deserves some thought. And I'm not just referring to your decision to try out a crossfit gym or not.
Sandbags Don't Need Handles
Sandbag drills and exercises. They're simple, effective, and incredibly versatile. And as the site name suggests, I like simple. But there's a lot of stuff out there complicating sandbag work and I don't care for that much.
Developing Efficiency in Strongman For All Sizes: 7 Tips For Athletes Big & Small
This month I was given the opportunity to write an article for the Performance Menu regarding my unique perspectives on training and competing as a 175# strongman. I discuss some of the things that I feel are important for performing lifts as efficiently as possible as well as optimizing the heavy training to stay athletic, move well, and avoid injuries/overtraining.
Fight Cell Phone Posture With These Neck Exercises
Everybody wants to know how to train to fight and survive the Zombie apocalypse. A fun training goal to visualize. However, I think our biggest threat isn't bath salts or viruses. Its technology.
Lower Body Foam Rolling Movements
Another simple foam rolling video that you can follow along with. This time for the lower body, and still done in under 4 minutes.
Upper Body Foam Rolling Movements
I wanted to create a simple follow along foam rolling video for my clients to use on their own and figured I might as well share it with everyone. Follow along and you'll be done in less than 4 minutes. Your warm up can still be quick and effective.
5 Drills For Ankle Mobility
Ankle mobility drills are mind numbing. But they don't have to be and they can be done quickly as part of a full body warm up. The following movements are a combination of various movements inspired from yoga, natural movement and just playing around on all fours.