Month: November 2018

Internal Program Review: Strength Training for an Elite Freshman Swimmer

Outside Features, Strength & Conditioning, Swimming Performance / By

We’ve added a new post in our Internal Program Review series. This time, we’ve published the post with our partners at Swimming Science. This program review focuses on a single training day within one of our high school swimmer’s program. Read more on this at Swimming Science. You can also find other Internal Program Reviews here, on RuthlessPerformance.com. Internal Program Review: Corrective …

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The Physiology of Performance – Part 1: Understanding the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

Physiology, Strength & Conditioning / By

An unfortunate setback in the science of human performance is the large emphasis currently placed on muscle physiology as a means of maximizing performance. While obviously the muscles play a critical role in athleticism, the muscular system is completely at the whim of the nervous system; the junction of these two is known categorically as …

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Internal Program Review: Corrective Exercise Program for an Elite Female CrossFit Athlete

Posture, Strength & Conditioning / By

Throughout the entirety of my college tenure and time as a collegiate strength & conditioning coach, I was extremely averse to CrossFit. Though my stance hasn’t changed much regarding CrossFit as a means of enhancing athletic prowess, it has changed considerably towards using CrossFit as a means of enhancing fitness in the general population as …

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