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 …
With the new shut down measures in Pennsylvania, I wanted to get out a new workout for our swimmers to do at-home. This program is designed for high school swimmers, any high school swimmer, but it helps if the athlete has trained with us in the past so that they are used to the formatting …
A Comprehensive Look at Our 3 Day At-Home Swimming Dryland Program (Program 2) Read More »
This week’s list of featured content is as eclectic as ever. The Featured Fitness Content series actually outdates the origin of Ruthless Performance. Prior to ruthless, the featured fitness content series was hosted on The Fitness Resource–the business from which ruthless evolved. The Featured Fitness Content series is a great opportunity for me to stay …
If I’m being honest, the most common lower body training mistake is simply not training the lower body. Dedicated fitness enthusiasts of the latter half of the last century had a somewhat similar notion to this–strength training for the upper body, plus some running or jogging for the lower body. In my early training years …
Foundational Series: 3 Common Lower Body Training Mistakes Read More »
Recently we posted an article that has been getting some traction online. This short article is primarily about how we, at Ruthless, deal with the notion of overtraining and what we do to prevent it in our athletes. This tweet sums it up to an extent, but I still recommend reading through this new and …
Q. Should I Use a Deload Week at the End of Each Training Cycle? The concept of ‘deloading’ finds its way into many lifters’ training programs far too early in their careers. Deloading typically refers to any time within a training cycle where there is a sizeable cutback in volume, load, intensity, or variable otherwise, …
Foundational Series: Over-Training & Under-Recovery Read More »
Just a quick heads up… The team has set up a landing page for information on our ongoing Expedition 118 project. Again, Expedition 118 is an attempt, led by us, to break a paddleboarding world record while raising $500,000 for clean water initiatives. We are getting very close to confirming the primary beneficiaries of the …
We’re back at it with the 82nd installment in our Featured Fitness Content series. As always, the purpose of this series is to gather some of the best content in fitness, human performance, and health science from around the web, then provide these articles, research, podcasts, books, and more to our readers on a weekly …
Before we get up-and-running with this week’s Featured Content from around the web, I want to remind you about Expedition 118. Expedition 118 is a new project, organized by Ruthless Performance to break a world-record, while raising $500,000 for cleaner oceans and waterways. WE NEED YOUR HELP GETTING THIS OFF THE GROUND. Currently, we have …
Welcome to this week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content. As a regular reader of this series, you’re setting yourself apart by going above-and-beyond in your search for new material in fitness and sports performance from the industry’s leading experts. You can peruse last week’s installment here. But before we get to this week’s featured content, …
