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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 97

In last week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content, we linked to the new Expedition 118 Facebook page. Though still over a year away, this project is developing rapidly. At the time of publication, I’m in the western US meeting with prospective charity beneficiaries and doing a bit of fly fishing on the Idaho/Nevada border. But …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 95

March provides the greatest contrast in training at Ruthless. For our swimmers, early March means that taper is in full swing, preceding the championship meets at the district, state, and even national level. Following these meets, our swimmers get a solid two-week break. We’re staunch advocates of the total removal of swimming and rigorous exercise …

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Foundational Series: 3 Ways to Improve Your Morning Routine

Over and over we’ve heard about the value of optimizing your morning routine. In many respects this is a crucial element to achieving peak performance; what I’m more interested in, really, is the upstream and downstream effects of a honed-in morning routine. When your morning routine is on-point, it usually means that your sleep the …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 94

We’re at Installment 94… What happens when we get to 100 you ask? I’ve been asking myself the same question. The Featured Fitness Content series actually started with the predecessor to Ruthless Performance–The Fitness Resource. Perhaps for installment 100 I’ll dig out some of the earliest featured articles for a re-feature… You can find the …

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The Physiology of Performance: Understanding the Swimming Taper for Championship Meets

The taper is an integral part of the competitive swimming experience. Swimmers usually first experience the taper at the end of their first competitive swim season, regardless of age or skill level. Even though most swimmers have undergone a taper and most coaches have facilitated one, few understand the physiological underpinnings that make the taper …

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