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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 105

This week’s installment of Featured Fitness Content is being posted as I begin the drive to California for my upcoming wedding. Because of said wedding, Coach Keith is going to be leading operations at the Ruthless Performance Mobility & Fitness Studio in Pottsville, PA until I get back on June 23rd. But my absence does …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 104

If you missed last week’s Featured Fitness Content, you can catch up here. You can also skip ahead and read-on with this week’s installment below. As always, this series is dedicated to aggregating the best content in fitness, health, and sports performance–regardless of medium (i.e. podcast, research periodical, expert blog, etc.). Now onto this week’s …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 101

Welcome to the 101st installment in the Featured Fitness Content series. You’ll note that the articles featured are slowly expanding beyond what we’ve traditionally considered to be ‘fitness’ content–and has grown to include a broader set of topics under the health and fitness realm including success, mindset, motivation, and well-being more broadly. You can find …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 100

100 Installments later… When I first began this series, Ruthless Performance wasn’t even yet an idea… Initially this series was hosted on the predecessor site to ruthless, The Fitness Resource. This series was conceived because I was reading dozens of articles each week on my own–just for continuing education purposes. Ultimately I saw the value …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 99

Welcome to the 99th installment of Featured Fitness Content. This series is a tool for finding, comprehending, and expanding an ever-increasing array of knowledge in health and fitness from sources that we believe to be reputable in a world of gimmicks, fads, and 5-minute abs. Want to start with our last installment? You can read …

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Exercise Science in the Real World: Lesson 5

**Editor’s Note: This series comes from current Ruthless Performance Intern and Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach, Keith Lowery. Keith is a senior exercise science student at Bloomsburg University, which has an affiliate agreement with Ruthless. As senior exercise science students complete their 4-year program, they are required to complete an arduous semester-long internship. These lessons …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 98

Back at it after a weeklong fishing trip… This was my first out-of-state hunting/fishing trip of 2021, and sure won’t be the last. I was targeting Red Band Trout with the fly rod on the Nevada/Idaho border. The late-winter/early-spring weather made the trip all the more difficult, but all the more fun. But onto fitness …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 95

March provides the greatest contrast in training at Ruthless. For our swimmers, early March means that taper is in full swing, preceding the championship meets at the district, state, and even national level. Following these meets, our swimmers get a solid two-week break. We’re staunch advocates of the total removal of swimming and rigorous exercise …

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Foundational Series: 3 Ways to Improve Your Morning Routine

Over and over we’ve heard about the value of optimizing your morning routine. In many respects this is a crucial element to achieving peak performance; what I’m more interested in, really, is the upstream and downstream effects of a honed-in morning routine. When your morning routine is on-point, it usually means that your sleep the …

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Exercise Science in the Real World: Lesson 3

**Editor’s Note: This series comes from current Ruthless Performance Intern and Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach, Keith Lowery. Keith is a senior exercise science student at Bloomsburg University, which has an affiliate agreement with Ruthless. As senior exercise science students complete their 4-year program, they are required to complete an arduous semester-long internship. These lessons …

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