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20 Smarter Alternatives To Popular CrossFit Exercises Kipping Pull-Ups,...

Rewriting The Book on “Traditional” CrossFit Training Since it’s swift entry into the fitness industry nearly 20 years ago, CrossFit has captivated millions of people from across the globe with its...

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Top 4 Eccentric Training Techniques For Size and Strength

Eccentric Training – More Than Just Training SLOW When someone or something is described as “eccentric,” it often has a negative connotation. Interestingly, that’s also the case with training programs...

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Triceps Are The New Glutes Top 10 Triceps Exercises For Size and Strength

Step Aside Glutes, There’s A New King of The Gym If Instagram has taught us anything in the last few years, it’s that the fitness industry has gone absolutely gaga for glutes. And yeah, I get it!...

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The 3 Biggest Form Double Standards In Fitness How Specific Form Standards...

Perfect Form Does NOT Exist… Teaching exercise is incredibly rewarding. We get to potentially be part of legitimately changing people’s lives for the better. However, it is not always a simple task,...

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10 Commandments of Training For Longevity How To Physically THRIVE at Any Age

Age Is NOT A Disability, Stop Treating It Like One Please STOP treating your aging clientele like they are “OLD.” And for those of  you older adults who have goals of being physically active, healthy...

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Speed BUILDS: 5 Reasons To Sprint For Muscle & Strength

Sprint For Superior Muscle & Strength Gains By now everyone and their mother has heard and read about the “sprinters vs. marathon runners” comparison. Sprint athletes are big, lean, and strong;...

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Top 15 Face Pull Variations For Shoulder Health & Performance

Nothing Beats The Face Pull For Pain-Free Performance The face pull is THE pain-free shoulder staple that belongs in most all programs no matter the goal or training focus. If you have shoulders, you...

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CrossFit, But SMARTER The End of an Epic Era in Traditional CrossFit

CrossFit Is Evolving, Are You Evolving With It? Since entering the mainstream fitness space in the early 2000’s and hitting a peak participation globally nearly 10 years later, CrossFit has earned the...

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Bulgarian Split Squats: A Superior Alternative To Barbell Back Squats?...

Squatting With A Bar On Your Back Is The ONLY Way To Get Strong, Right? Before the rise of the online fitness industry, things used to be simpler. Ah, the good ‘ole days! Back when the universal...

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The 30 Most Effective RDL Variations For Strength & Spine Health

The Hip Hinge: The Most Forgotten Movement Pattern on Earth When it comes to longevity in the weight room, training, developing, and ultimately mastering the fundamental movement patterns of the body...

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Top 17 UPPER BODY Plyometrics For Speed, Power & Performance

Plyometrics: Not Just Jumping For The Legs Right now I want offer you a complete a fully detailed progressive upper body plyometrics training system. For starters, plyometrics are any speed,...

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The PERFECT 10 Minute Warm Up Simple. Efficient. Effective.

Never Waste Another Warm Up: Do THIS Instead Based on what you can see at the foam rolling station and cardio deck at any major commercial gym, it’s clear that the average person (and many fitness...

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10 Commandments of Injury Prevention

If you want to live a life packed full of meaningful training and sustainable progression without every falling victim to debilitating injuries, here are the 10 commandments of injury prevention that...

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6 Smarter Ways To Get MORE Out Of Bodyweight Training

Today’s MANDATORY Coursework: Bodyweight Training 101 We have all heard the phrase, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Well, that is...

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The 50 Most Effective Push Up Variations For Size & Strength

The Ultimate Guide to Push Up PROGRESSIONS With everything going on right now, working out from home has become the new normal. Let’s talk about one of the best bang for your buck upper body exercise...

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6 Ways To Reverse The Aging Process with Exercise

Physical & Mental Age-Related Declines Are NOT Inevitable Aging isn’t a sexy topic to discuss. Most people would rather talk about grammatical structure, fossil fuels, the Dewey Decimal system, or...

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Top 20 Plyometrics For Speed, Power and Performance

Properly Programming PLYOS: Far More Than Just Jumping As popularized by the athletic community, lower body plyometrics are speed and power-based exercises in which the muscles exert maximal force in...

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4 Secrets For Growing Your Glutes How To Build Big Beautiful Badass Glutes

The Rise of The Instagram Booty Chick The last reason for following an Instagram booty chick is to learn something about strength training. It’s just really hard to take people seriously when they’re...

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Top 22 Kettlebell Snatch Variations For Power & Performance

The Complete Kettlebell Exercise The snatch is a powerful full-body exercise that can be done with a variety of tools. Purists will say you can only do them with barbells, but if the goal isn’t to get...

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Why Workouts Don’t Work For Health & Longevity And What To Do Instead...

Stop Wasting Your Time “Working Out” We’ve all heard it before when it comes to improving our health… “You just need to workout more!” Surely that’s the golden ticket to health, performance, longevity...

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