Leadership and Discipline

Featured Fitness Content: Volume 109

You can find the last installment of Featured Fitness Content here. Otherwise we’re going to get right into this week’s content… Featured Content A Strongman’s Tips for Training Distance Runners in the Weight Room By Carmen Pata via SimpliFaster Dr. Satchin Panda on Circadian Insights into Exercise Timing, Melatonin Biology, and Peak Cognition Hosted by …

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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 1

**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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Our Most Popular Posts of 2020

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 …

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Science-Based Strategies to Maximize Mental & Physical Performance – Installment 1

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 …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 72

We’re back at it again with another weekly installment of Featured Fitness Content. As always, if you’d like to go through last week’s edition, you can find it here. But now onto this week’s content… Featured Content The 3 Upper-Body Exercises You Should Be Doing By Alan Bishop via T-Nation 4 Intensity Techniques for Increased …

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Training for a 46-Mile Speed Ascent of Utah’s Highest Peak – Part I

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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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 63

Leading industry experts, journalists, researcher, and more professionals in health and wellness have been putting out some great content over the past few weeks. With this in mind, if you missed last week’s featured content, I recommend that you check that out here. As always, we suggest that our readers submit any particularly interesting pieces …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 62

Another week almost in the books (and a quarter of the way through May) means another installment in our Featured Fitness Content series. If you haven’t read through last week’s material, you can find it here. And before we dive into this week’s content, I’d like to remind our readers of the new Human Advancement …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 61

Before diving into this week’s round-up, I wanted to point viewers to our new Human Advancement Podcast. You can find this anywhere that you enjoy listening to podcasts (click here for links to the various platforms). So far, we’ve already released 4, 3 of which were exclusive content with leading industry experts. The easiest place …

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