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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With my upcoming bike tour from Philadelphia to Atlantic City (in the midst of a heat wave), I wanted to make sure that our cyclists have a quick guide for considerations on race-day performance in the heat. This is in no way a comprehensive dive on the subject, but rather a way to get athletes …
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Utilizing the Rower Utilizing all equipment at your disposal can open new avenues of strength and conditioning development for your clients. One piece of equipment that I have taken a liking to since I started working with John is the rower. The rower offers many advantages since it is something so simple yet can be …
In last week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content, we linked to the new Expedition 118 Facebook page. Though still over a year away, this project is developing rapidly. At the time of publication, I’m in the western US meeting with prospective charity beneficiaries and doing a bit of fly fishing on the Idaho/Nevada border. But …
Lots going on at Ruthless these days. The final week of the PIAA swim season is upon us, culminating in the State Championship meet this Friday. Ruthless Performance managed to send 3 of our Aqua Jocks to the state meet; 2 boys and 1 girl. After this a big rest then a big push for …
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 …
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 …
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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, …
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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