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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 75

If you missed last week’s Featured Content, you might want to check that out here. You’ll notice that the content this week contains more research than usual. This wasn’t by any direct planning on my part–these are just what has come across my desk and is of sufficient quality that there are some takeaways for …

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Exercise of the Month: The Build & Balance Complex

Rather than using a single exercise for this installment of Exercise of the Month, we’re going to discuss an exercise complex; one which we use frequently across our athletic population. Like many training evolutions at Ruthless, the Build & Balance Complex came out of my own training experiments. In this particular case, I was looking …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 74

Here’s our weekly round-up of fitness content from across the web. Today’s installment is actually a double, making up for last week, which I missed because I was climbing King’s Peak in Utah. The total round-trip mileage was just shy of 50 miles and completed over the course of 3 days. I’m sure I’ll be …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 72

We’re back at it again with another weekly installment of Featured Fitness Content. As always, if you’d like to go through last week’s edition, you can find it here. But now onto this week’s content… Featured Content The 3 Upper-Body Exercises You Should Be Doing By Alan Bishop via T-Nation 4 Intensity Techniques for Increased …

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Training for a 46-Mile Speed Ascent of Utah’s Highest Peak – Part II

In the first half of this article series, I discussed my draw to Utah and some of the reasons why I’ll be returning this August to ascend King’s Peak–the state’s highest point at 13,527 feet above sea-level. I also explained how this differs from a traditional western peak summit; rather than climbing this at a …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 71

We’re ending the week with another installment of Featured Fitness Content. Last week we covered topics ranging from bodyweight delt exercises, to the best exercises for soccer players, benefits of max effort sprinting, and more. If you’re interested in last week’s edition, you can find it here. Below is the content that caught my eye …

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Foundational Series: Ankle Health & Longevity

There’s hundreds of reasons why ankle health should be a top priority in your training routine. If you’re a hunter, heavy, restrictive boots hinder your ankle mobility. If you’re a swimmer or dancer, you likely spend most of your time practicing in plantarflexion and almost no time in dorsiflexion. Though these may seem like unusual …

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