Science-Based Strategies to Maximize Mental & Physical Performance – Installment 1

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This series is going to explore various elements of performance, primarily from a physical and mental perspective. The reality is, however, that physical and mental performance are tightly interwoven; as one improves so does the other. This notion makes most of these concepts interchangeable between benefits to both mind and body.                Beyond the categories …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 79

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Before we dive into this week’s featured content, you may be interested in viewing the last installment, which can be found here. Regarding this week’s content, we have a few housekeeping items to cover… First, the Coal Region Campfire episode with Coach Ned Hampford is a few months old, breaking with our tradition of posting …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 77

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Welcome to our weekly edition of Featured Fitness Content. Today’s content covers various aspects of health from Covid to Breast Milk, and Probiotics to Altitude Sickness; think of today’s installment more as a choose-your-own-adventure story. During the release of last week’s installment, no. 76, I was bow hunting Mule Deer in the Frank Church Wilderness …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 76

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We have lots of content to cover this week, from Ketogenic Diets to sleep routines of the ultra-successful, and aging to asthma. But first, you might want to take a look at last week’s Featured Content. You can do so here. At the time of this publication, I’ll be bow hunting Idaho’s Frank Church–River of …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 75

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If you missed last week’s Featured Content, you might want to check that out here. You’ll notice that the content this week contains more research than usual. This wasn’t by any direct planning on my part–these are just what has come across my desk and is of sufficient quality that there are some takeaways for …

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Exercise of the Month: The Build & Balance Complex

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Rather than using a single exercise for this installment of Exercise of the Month, we’re going to discuss an exercise complex; one which we use frequently across our athletic population. Like many training evolutions at Ruthless, the Build & Balance Complex came out of my own training experiments. In this particular case, I was looking …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 74

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Here’s our weekly round-up of fitness content from across the web. Today’s installment is actually a double, making up for last week, which I missed because I was climbing King’s Peak in Utah. The total round-trip mileage was just shy of 50 miles and completed over the course of 3 days. I’m sure I’ll be …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 72

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We’re back at it again with another weekly installment of Featured Fitness Content. As always, if you’d like to go through last week’s edition, you can find it here. But now onto this week’s content… Featured Content The 3 Upper-Body Exercises You Should Be Doing By Alan Bishop via T-Nation 4 Intensity Techniques for Increased …

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