If you’ve missed Volume 51 of the Featured Fitness Content series, you can view it here. Since our last volume in the series, we’ve also added four very popular articles to the site which you may be interested in reading: Internal Program Review: In-Season Strength Training for an Advanced High School Swimmer, Manipulating the Variables …
In this Internal Program Review installment, we’ll be covering a single pre-season workout for a youth track and cross country athlete. Though this is for a female, in the pre-high school training phases, sex matters very little in training style; but as these athletes develop more and more, the training requirements begin to diverge. Athletes …
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In late January I made a guest appearance on Cervicide’s Whitetail Theories Podcast. As only one of a few dozens professionals in the fitness community that caters to the specific athletic needs of the hunting population, I was invited to shed some light on how hunters can improve or implement an off-season training regimen. I …
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Going into championship season athletes are struggling to make last-minute changes to their training, to their mindset, and diet. What are the best changes an athlete should make at this point in the season? The short answer is none. Any changes made in haste are best not made at all. Some blatantly obvious changes may …
Last week, we posted an article explaining that not only are endurance training and strength training acceptable to overlap during the in-season, but that when used concurrently, strength training can actually reduce the chance that an endurance athlete will fall victim to overtraining. Here is one such example of a program that we developed for …
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If you haven’t check out the 50th edition of Featured Fitness Content, I recommend that you do that here. Otherwise, here are some great recent reads in health and wellness. This is edition is a bit outside of the norm for this series as it includes some research, some news on the business side of …
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Regardless of your preferred cycling style, be it mountain biking, distance, or sprint if you’re spending a lot of time pedaling, it is very easy for the ratio of quadriceps to hamstring input in each pedal to get further and further out of whack. In a perfect world, you would have a near even input …
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Let’s imagine that you’re deadlifting. If you’re training with us at Ruthless Performance, you’ll likely do 1-2 sets of 10 reps with an empty barbell before adding weight; for intermediate-level athletes we’ll do 1-2 sets of normal barbell deadlifts. For more advanced trainees it may be a set of Jefferson Deadlifts followed by a set …
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In the holiday lull of the lengthy winter swim season, some of our better athletes are chipping away at their weaknesses, building to their strengths, and generally outworking the competition. While some excuse away their laziness over the holidays as a ‘break’, others view it as a chance to double-down on swimming, but very strategic …
Mid-December through Mid-January has been filled with great fitness content from top influencers from trusted industry professionals. Because of this, we’re going to be re-launching our Featured Fitness Content series that we’ve been providing our readership since the early days of Ruthless Performance when the business still went by The Fitness Resource. If you’re a …
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