There’s hundreds of reasons why ankle health should be a top priority in your training routine. If you’re a hunter, heavy, restrictive boots hinder your ankle mobility. If you’re a swimmer or dancer, you likely spend most of your time practicing in plantarflexion and almost no time in dorsiflexion. Though these may seem like unusual …
You can find last week’s list of Featured Fitness Content here. As a quick aside before we get into today’s featured content, I wanted to let everyone know that we have some new apparel coming soon… The new hats are the first piece of our new Climb Higher series. This logo will be embedded into …
After my 4,000-mile, 43-day cross country cycle, my memory was left with a highly detailed map of this country and the route I took. Though I’ve done a handful of cross-country trips by car (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 coast-to-coast road trips), my understanding of the country and its form was compounded during …
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I’m proud to announce the official launch of the Human Advancement Podcast. I’ve been compiling audio from various events, interviews, guest lectures, expert panels, and more since October; now we have months worth of content logged to supplement our ongoing effort to bring industry experts, high performing athletes, and sought-after personalities to your phone, speaker, …
Here’s out latest fitness content round-up from across the web. If you’d like to view our last installment of the series, you can do that here. Our readers are always invited to submit fitness content for the series via our contact page. We are always looking for the latest and greatest content from leading fitness …
Very few people are happy to be in this current quarantine situation. People are falling apart without the structure and rigor of high level performance training. Because everyone’s schedule has been so radically thrown off, we’ve largely resorted to the easiest possible solution–laziness and apathy. The good news, many think, is that you’re not the …
If you’re like most inhabitants of the world, you’ve probably come into a fair bit of extra reading time as of late. This downtime doesn’t need to mean downtime from health or from advancing towards your goals. Our Featured Fitness Content series sheds light on what tactics industry experts are utilizing to either get healthier …
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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Let’s imagine that you’re deadlifting. If you’re training with us at Ruthless Performance, you’ll likely do 1-2 sets of 10 reps with an empty barbell before adding weight; for intermediate-level athletes we’ll do 1-2 sets of normal barbell deadlifts. For more advanced trainees it may be a set of Jefferson Deadlifts followed by a set …
Strength & Conditioning Fundamentals: Hidden Volume Read More »
Two of the biggest complaints long-time hunters have about their physical abilities in the field are nagging, continuous knee pain and chronic low-back pain. There’s a multitude of causes for these including: poor glute activation–which tends to cause an overreliance on the lower back as a means of stabilizing the trunk, packs that are too …
Physical Preparation Strategies for Big Game Hunters: Optimizing the Ankle Read More »
