In light of the current state of global affairs, the immune system is quite the hot topic. While we at Ruthless Performance are in no way interested in profiting off of our current global pandemic (to the extent that we won’t even mention this disease by name in this article, SEO, titles, or taglines), but …
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We’ve been dedicating more time for finding fitness content from around the web for our on-going Featured Fitness Content series. Because of the nature of the internet, blog posts, articles, podcasts, and interviews are a great way to get ahead of the curve and see what experts are thinking, doing, and forecasting in real-time. Whereas …
By now the value of sleep should be completely self-evident. Sleep modulates the production of hormones that are valuable to peak athletic and cognitive function like hGH (Growth Hormone), cortisol, and testosterone. Additionally, adequate sleep helps improve insulin sensitivity, burn fat, increase working IQ, and generally improves a variety of other variables that make you …
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You can find the 52nd edition of our Featured Fitness Content series here. We’ll be adding these segments more regularly as we find unique, insightful, or otherwise valuable fitness content across the web. If you’ve come across or written a good post to be featured, submit it on our contact page. [VIDEO] The Effects of …
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If you’ve missed Volume 51 of the Featured Fitness Content series, you can view it here. Since our last volume in the series, we’ve also added four very popular articles to the site which you may be interested in reading: Internal Program Review: In-Season Strength Training for an Advanced High School Swimmer, Manipulating the Variables …
In this Internal Program Review installment, we’ll be covering a single pre-season workout for a youth track and cross country athlete. Though this is for a female, in the pre-high school training phases, sex matters very little in training style; but as these athletes develop more and more, the training requirements begin to diverge. Athletes …
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In late January I made a guest appearance on Cervicide’s Whitetail Theories Podcast. As only one of a few dozens professionals in the fitness community that caters to the specific athletic needs of the hunting population, I was invited to shed some light on how hunters can improve or implement an off-season training regimen. I …
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Going into championship season athletes are struggling to make last-minute changes to their training, to their mindset, and diet. What are the best changes an athlete should make at this point in the season? The short answer is none. Any changes made in haste are best not made at all. Some blatantly obvious changes may …
Last week, we posted an article explaining that not only are endurance training and strength training acceptable to overlap during the in-season, but that when used concurrently, strength training can actually reduce the chance that an endurance athlete will fall victim to overtraining. Here is one such example of a program that we developed for …
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