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

Physiology, Strength & Conditioning, Swimming Performance / By John

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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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 92

Featured Fitness Content, Strength & Conditioning / By John

‘Tis that time of the week again… The time where we round-up the best content in fitness, health, and strength & conditioning from across the web and share it with you fine folks. This month I have to make a point to be more methodical about my search for information… Usually, I just scan through …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 91

Featured Fitness Content, Strength & Conditioning / By John

To start, you may want to revisit last week’s Featured Fitness Content by clicking here. Beyond, providing you with a variety of links to great content from across the web, this on-going series also details what we’ve been up to at Ruthless, as far as what’s new and exciting with our operations and more. Featured …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 90

Featured Fitness Content / By John

If you want to start with last week’s list of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so by clicking here. I’d also encourage anyone to listen through the first few episodes of the second season of the Human Advancement Podcast, all episodes are available on all major streaming platforms, plus on our website. Featured Content …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 89

Featured Fitness Content, Latest Posts / By John

At Ruthless, we’re starting our January off strong at our Mobility & Fitness Studio in Pottsville, PA. Though we’re struggling through some supply chain issues–including getting dumbbells, as well as some other equipment–the studio is operational. If you’re interested in training with us at the studio location, send us a message. We will continue to …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 88

Featured Fitness Content, Microblogs, Nutrition & Wellness, Sports Business / By John

Its 2021 now… That digit has changed, but not much else. This year can be whatever you make it into; just like last year. If you’re interested in reading through our last installment of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so here. Now onto this week’s list… Featured Content Examination of vitamin intakes among US …

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Our Most Popular Posts of 2020

Board Sports, Cycling, Expedition 118, Featured Fitness Content, Hunting, Latest Posts, Leadership and Discipline, Microblogs, Nutrition & Wellness, Physiology, Strength & Conditioning, Swimming Performance / By John

As we wrap up 2020, there’s a great deal of negativity surrounding the year we’ve just lived through, some have a positive outlook moving forward, some others–not so much… We get one shot at this and should make the best of it. For anyone anxious about the new year or depressed about last year, I …

Featured Fitness Content: Volume 87

Featured Fitness Content, Latest Posts, Microblogs / By John

I want to remind all Schuylkill County-based athletes that we are continuing to host outdoor conditioning workouts this week, Monday through Thursday. You can find more details on the information page for these stand-alone conditioning workouts. But now, I’m going to get right into this week’s content. If you’d like to look back on last …

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Outdoor Conditioning Workout Sign Ups

Strength & Conditioning, Swimming Performance / By John

Because of the current shut-downs affecting Pennsylvania-based high school athletes, Ruthless Performance is opening up our new Mobility & Fitness Studio early for outdoor conditioning workouts for high school athletes. The Ruthless Performance Mobility & Fitness Studio is located at 2205 W Market St Pottsville, PA 17901 (in the Revive Chiropractic Building). This second round of COVID shutdowns stipulates that only …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 86

Featured Fitness Content, Latest Posts, Strength & Conditioning / By John

Even with the latest round of shut-downs in Pennsylvania, we’ve been at if full-time working on new content, making sure our athletes are getting their training in from home, and building out a few large-scale projects concurrently. If you want to catch up with the last installment of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so …

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