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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 »
