I’m excited to launch my fundraising page for the 36th annual Ben to the Shore Bike Tour. The Ben to the Shore Bike Tour is the event that helped solidify my desire to complete the Ruthless Performance Ride America in 2019, which was a 4,000 cycling journey, completed over the course of 43 days. Even …
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A question I am often asked by inquisitive coaches, clients, parents, athletes, and even friends curious about fitness is “What are your workouts like?” There are a few variations of this. Many are curious what types of training methodologies we use; they’ll ask “Are you using bodyweight or kettlebells or bands or what?” And my …
The Featured Fitness Content series that I regularly release here at Ruthless is my opportunity to share some of the best information that I’ve found from scouring the web. Having released 128 editions of this, I’ve found some great resources, some of which are traditional bio/medical journals, while others are blog posts from brilliant up-and-coming …
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I wanted to share an exercise this month that is super beneficial to almost everybody and requires next to no equipment. The Manually Resisted Hamstring Curl helps to build up the hamstring’s ability to perform lower leg flexion. Most, rightly, think that they are stimulating their hamstrings with hip extension work like deadlifts, RDLs, KB …
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Its May–do you know where your new years resolutions are?
The barbell is a fundamental building block across the domain of strength & conditioning. We utilize the barbell in almost every program. The barbell is primary in the sense that it is a ‘primary’ tool for developing the broadest and most encompassing skill portfolio, as far as skills related to athleticism and human performance are …
Greetings, salutations, etcetera, etcetera… There’s only so many ways I can say hi before my mind starts to wander back to the Carole Baskin (of Tiger King Fame) greeting: “Hey all you cool cats and kittens”. Did she kill her husband? Probably. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t subscribe to her YouTube page. But …
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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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 …
