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Build a Resilient Spine: Start Here
These four exercises are like insurance policies for your back. Invest now for lasting protection. You wake up with a sore lower back, and you go to bed feeling the same way. The discomfort is a...
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Mobilize Your Hips and Quads to Get More From Your Core
Everyone wants a strong, stable core, but if it isn't mobile, you can't use it. As a coach, not a day passes without someone saying to me, “I need a stronger core.” Nobody will argue that a strong...
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Build a Resilient Spine: Lock Down Core Stability
Movement stimulus with core training ensures that your midsection fires under load. Everything starts at the core. Your abs, obliques, and lower back muscles have to be working during all forms of...
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2 Overlooked Reasons Your Hamstrings Are Tight
If you have a chronically tight muscle, don't just stretch it. Find the root cause. Do you have tight hamstrings? Conventional wisdom says that to fix them, you just need to stretch. When that doesn’t...
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Build A Resilient Spine: Challenge Your System
Force your system to adapt to challenging stimuli for optimal function and performance. You can’t build a strong, stable spine by moving in just one plane of motion. More importantly, you can’t build a...
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Stress Is Ruining Your Fitness
Physical and emotional tension is a major roadblock to your athletic success. Training really comes down to one thing: stress management. In the gym you add stress to try to push your body to a new...
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Simplifying Shoulder Health for Strength Athletes
The shoulder is one of the most complex joints of the body, but maintaining it doesn't have to be complicated. People love to talk about how complicated the shoulder is. Given that the shoulder complex...
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Unlock the Roots of Performance With a Golf Ball
Our feet are pathologically weak from years spent trapped in shoes, but this technique will help wake them up again. Most of you have screwed up feet, and don't even realize it. Thanks in part to some...
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Build a Resilient Spine: Create Power for Sport Performance
A body built for high performance starts with the core. The ultimate goal of any core exercise should be to protect your spine. Spinal stiffness and core stabilization strategies should also transfer...
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Mid-Back Mobility: Strength With a Twist
When your thoracic spine doesn't rotate, you're missing strength and inviting injury elsewhere. The thoracic spine is designed for rotation. It's supposed to rotate more than your lumbar spine, but for...
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5 Common Stretching Pitfalls
Revisit the fundamental principles of stretching to get the most out of your training. Why is stretching so difficult? It seems as though it should be easy and simple. Need to stretch your hamstrings....
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Adrenal Fatigue and the Athlete
If you are falling flat in your training, you may need more than a diet tweak or a different workout plan. We’ve all heard of adrenal fatigue, but what the heck is it? And more importantly, how do you...
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Get Back on the Horse
Injury is the stimulus for new growth that would never have occurred otherwise. It’s said that the day you are born is the day you start dying. But it’s equally true that the day you start dying is the...
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How to Assess Your Full-Body Flexibility
These five movements will help you narrow down what flexibility issues are holding back your progress. In my recent articles I’ve discussed the importance of functional flexibility for performance and...
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Hips Don’t Lie: 4 Drills to Unlock Your Stiff Hips
Why do the same old hip stretches if you aren't making progress? The hip joint is one of the most mobile in the body, so why can’t you move yours? Most people I know waste their time with: Foam...
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10 Drills to Improve Your Full-Body Flexibility
Use these drills to improve your movement pattern and increase your athletic performance. read more
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The Disconnected Values Model of Motivation
There is a massive gap between knowing what is healthy for us, and behaving accordingly. It is easy to motivate or help someone who already values being healthy, moving well, and moving often. But what...
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Rebuild Your Hip Function with Tempo Training
Ignoring dysfunction in your hips will allow all of your lifts to spiral out of control. Tempo training is common for upper body and core movements, but is often neglected for lower body exercises. Why...
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Simplicity Rules: Start Your Diet with Natural Food
Unless you're looking to beat Usain Bolt's record later this year, save yourself the stress of weighing and measuring. In a previous article, I summarized the current state of scientific knowledge...
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FMS, Circus Acts, and True Functionality
Whether a movement can be called functional depends on the needs of the individual. Functional this, functional that... The word has overrun my social media feeds, and is the subject of countless...
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