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

After my 4,000-mile, 43-day cross country cycle, my memory was left with a highly detailed map of this country and the route I took. Though I’ve done a handful of cross-country trips by car (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 coast-to-coast road trips), my understanding of the country and its form was compounded during …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 66

Before diving into this week’s Featured Fitness Content, you may want to check out our last installment. You can find Volume 65 here. At Ruthless Performance, we’re excited about the switch in Pennsylvania’s COVID plan for the north east from yellow to green. This means that gyms should be opening up and that we’ll have …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 65

Restrictions are easing up in Pennsylvania, and since we are decentralized, the various affiliate locations fall under different jurisdictions. So if you train with Ruthless Performance in-person, you can expect to hit the gym floor relatively soon. But onto the expert content from across the web… As always, you can view last week’s edition of …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 64

Before we dive into this week’s featured content, I wanted to introduce everyone to our new Exercise of the Month series that we’re doing for the site. This month’s exercise is the Banded Rotational Kettlebell Swing. You can learn more about this exercise under the online education tab, or by clicking the link here. This …

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Exercise of the Month: Banded Rotational KB Swing

With the shutdown drastically reducing everyone’s access to gym equipment, I’ve been reverting to some older favorites that were up until now, lost to the endless possibilities found within the comfortable settings of well-equipped gyms. In both my own training and in my clients’ training, I’ve had to go back to some older training strategies …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 63

Leading industry experts, journalists, researcher, and more professionals in health and wellness have been putting out some great content over the past few weeks. With this in mind, if you missed last week’s featured content, I recommend that you check that out here. As always, we suggest that our readers submit any particularly interesting pieces …

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Internal Program Review – Summer Strength Training for a High School Swimmer

This post provides the PDF component to the latest episode of the Human Advancement Podcast. In that episode, I detail how Ruthless Performance spent a month training an elite high school swimmer in the summer of 2019. This is not the first segment in the Internal Review Series. We regularly provide open access to our …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 62

Another week almost in the books (and a quarter of the way through May) means another installment in our Featured Fitness Content series. If you haven’t read through last week’s material, you can find it here. And before we dive into this week’s content, I’d like to remind our readers of the new Human Advancement …

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