Gym Review: Headstrong Fit – San Luis Obispo, CA

Late last month I headed west. We (my wife and I) packed up the dogs for two mini stays–the first of which was in Escalante, UT, followed by a another stay along California’s central coast. Usually on my travels I don’t set aside all that much time for direct training. My usual plan is to …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 126

Just going to start out today’s Featured Fitness Content post with yet another call to sign up for our newsletter. If you enjoy the Featured Fitness Content series, you’ll enjoy the newsletter. In it, I provide early access to the same content that you’ll find in this series but with additional synopsis, commentary, special offers, …

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Microblog Monday: How We Use the Foam Roller

The foam roller really began picking up traction among athletes somewhere between ’09 to ’12–depending on your sources of information and the circles that you ran with at the time. You can never assume that the strength & conditioning realm will find things first–sometimes it’s the powerlifters doing things early, sometimes it’s the bodybuilders, but …

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Last Minute Tips for Championship Swim Meets

In a sport like swimming, most of the preparations for the big meets are made months in advanced. In most programs, the workload has been decreased for the 2-4 weeks leading up to the event. Sure, technique is being polished up–normally right up until the day of–but most of the serious work of the season …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 125

Late winter is a consistently chaotic time of the year at the gym–primarily because of the turbulent schedule that comes out of the tail-end of the swim season. Athletes’ concerns about championship meets, performance anxiety, looming overuse injuries, swim rankings, college-bound swimmers needing to meet time thresholds, chaos all around… But the people need what …

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Microblog Monday: A Tale of Two Swimmers

Imagine a scenario in which there are two nearly identical athletes, we’ll call them athlete ‘A’ and athlete ‘B’ (I’m very creative in the naming department). These athletes could be from any sport, but since I’m in the midst of transitioning a handful of swimmers from their PIAA dual meet season into the championship season, …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 124

We’re rolling into the new year with some top-tier content. Though not all timely, this round-up has something for everyone, spanning the health-wellness-fitness triad. You can get a breakdown of the featured content in greater detail by signing up for our email newsletter. This gives you advanced access to our Featured Fitness Content series, plus …

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New Podcast Drop

Last week we went retro–back to the mid 2020-and-a-half’s and I talked virtually on Zoom with Stacey Kadenas, co-owner of Lumber Capital Athletics near Williamsport, PA. This was a somewhat selfish episode for me, as I’ve been inching closer and closer to the unveil of a massive announcement for Ruthless. Its reassuring that someone as …

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Microblog Monday: How Weather Influences Our Warm Up Protocols

Its mid-December and we’re finally starting to see some cooler temps and snow on the ground in east-central Pennsylvania. This change isn’t just an aesthetic shift–throughout the winter our warm ups morph as temperatures plumit. We try to accomplish a handful of objectives during our warm ups. Though each person in our individualized programs will …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 123

Firstly, welcome to December–you heard it here first. But now onto fitness stuff. In this installment of Featured Fitness Content we’ll be looking at some articles that sit on the fringes of what can typically be considered ‘health’ content. Because these articles really do span a wide array of topics I’ve chosen to put a …

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