Greetings, salutations, etcetera, etcetera… There’s only so many ways I can say hi before my mind starts to wander back to the Carole Baskin (of Tiger King Fame) greeting: “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”. Did she kill her husband? Probably. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t subscribe to her YouTube page. But …
Late last month I headed west. We (my wife and I) packed up the dogs for two mini stays–the first of which was in Escalante, UT, followed by a another stay along California’s central coast. Usually on my travels I don’t set aside all that much time for direct training. My usual plan is to …
Gym Review: Headstrong Fit – San Luis Obispo, CA Read More »
Just going to start out today’s Featured Fitness Content post with yet another call to sign up for our newsletter. If you enjoy the Featured Fitness Content series, you’ll enjoy the newsletter. In it, I provide early access to the same content that you’ll find in this series but with additional synopsis, commentary, special offers, …
The foam roller really began picking up traction among athletes somewhere between ’09 to ’12–depending on your sources of information and the circles that you ran with at the time. You can never assume that the strength & conditioning realm will find things first–sometimes it’s the powerlifters doing things early, sometimes it’s the bodybuilders, but …
In a sport like swimming, most of the preparations for the big meets are made months in advanced. In most programs, the workload has been decreased for the 2-4 weeks leading up to the event. Sure, technique is being polished up–normally right up until the day of–but most of the serious work of the season …
Late winter is a consistently chaotic time of the year at the gym–primarily because of the turbulent schedule that comes out of the tail-end of the swim season. Athletes’ concerns about championship meets, performance anxiety, looming overuse injuries, swim rankings, college-bound swimmers needing to meet time thresholds, chaos all around… But the people need what …
Imagine a scenario in which there are two nearly identical athletes, we’ll call them athlete ‘A’ and athlete ‘B’ (I’m very creative in the naming department). These athletes could be from any sport, but since I’m in the midst of transitioning a handful of swimmers from their PIAA dual meet season into the championship season, …
We’re rolling into the new year with some top-tier content. Though not all timely, this round-up has something for everyone, spanning the health-wellness-fitness triad. You can get a breakdown of the featured content in greater detail by signing up for our email newsletter. This gives you advanced access to our Featured Fitness Content series, plus …
Last week we went retro–back to the mid 2020-and-a-half’s and I talked virtually on Zoom with Stacey Kadenas, co-owner of Lumber Capital Athletics near Williamsport, PA. This was a somewhat selfish episode for me, as I’ve been inching closer and closer to the unveil of a massive announcement for Ruthless. Its reassuring that someone as …
Its mid-December and we’re finally starting to see some cooler temps and snow on the ground in east-central Pennsylvania. This change isn’t just an aesthetic shift–throughout the winter our warm ups morph as temperatures plumit. We try to accomplish a handful of objectives during our warm ups. Though each person in our individualized programs will …
Microblog Monday: How Weather Influences Our Warm Up Protocols Read More »
