**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 …
At Ruthless, we’re starting our January off strong at our Mobility & Fitness Studio in Pottsville, PA. Though we’re struggling through some supply chain issues–including getting dumbbells, as well as some other equipment–the studio is operational. If you’re interested in training with us at the studio location, send us a message. We will continue to …
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 …
I want to remind all Schuylkill County-based athletes that we are continuing to host outdoor conditioning workouts this week, Monday through Thursday. You can find more details on the information page for these stand-alone conditioning workouts. But now, I’m going to get right into this week’s content. If you’d like to look back on last …
Even with the latest round of shut-downs in Pennsylvania, we’ve been at if full-time working on new content, making sure our athletes are getting their training in from home, and building out a few large-scale projects concurrently. If you want to catch up with the last installment of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so …
With the new shut down measures in Pennsylvania, I wanted to get out a new workout for our swimmers to do at-home. This program is designed for high school swimmers, any high school swimmer, but it helps if the athlete has trained with us in the past so that they are used to the formatting …
A Comprehensive Look at Our 3 Day At-Home Swimming Dryland Program (Program 2) Read More »
This series is going to explore various elements of performance, primarily from a physical and mental perspective. The reality is, however, that physical and mental performance are tightly interwoven; as one improves so does the other. This notion makes most of these concepts interchangeable between benefits to both mind and body. Beyond the categories …
Science-Based Strategies to Maximize Mental & Physical Performance – Installment 1 Read More »
Before we dive into this week’s featured content, you may be interested in viewing the last installment, which can be found here. Regarding this week’s content, we have a few housekeeping items to cover… First, the Coal Region Campfire episode with Coach Ned Hampford is a few months old, breaking with our tradition of posting …
This week’s round-up of fitness content is an unusually strong batch, but before we get into these, you may want to consider perusing last week’s edition. Now onto the new stuff… Featured Content 9 Training Tips for Re-Building Athletes Post COVID By Zach Even Esh 10 Tips for Smarter Program Design By Mike Robertson CrossFit …
Welcome to our weekly edition of Featured Fitness Content. Today’s content covers various aspects of health from Covid to Breast Milk, and Probiotics to Altitude Sickness; think of today’s installment more as a choose-your-own-adventure story. During the release of last week’s installment, no. 76, I was bow hunting Mule Deer in the Frank Church Wilderness …
