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Ruthless Performance voted “Best Fitness Center” by Readers’ Choice

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We’re proud to announce that Ruthless Performance has been awarded ‘Best Fitness Center’ by Readers’ Choice. At Ruthless Performance, we have a small-but-mighty following. As opposed to traditional gyms whose business model often relies on selling large volumes of unused gym memberships, Ruthless Performance relies on retention and an active relationship between the coaching staff …

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Microblog Monday: An Easier Path to Fat Loss

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I’ll just come right out and say it: Fat loss is easy. Well, it is a straightforward proposition anyway. The complexity only comes in because of various health gurus and marketing agencies trying to overburden you into a learned helplessness. I’m not in love with the idea of the calories-in / calories-out model of fat …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 128 (Special Edition)

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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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Exercise of the Month: Manually Resisted Hamstring Curls

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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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Microblog Monday: Programming Barbell Work

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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 …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 127

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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 …

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Microblog Monday: How We Use the Foam Roller

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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 …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 125

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Late winter is a consistently chaotic time of the year at the gym–primarily because of the turbulent schedule that comes out of the tail-end of the swim season. Athletes’ concerns about championship meets, performance anxiety, looming overuse injuries, swim rankings, college-bound swimmers needing to meet time thresholds, chaos all around… But the people need what …

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Microblog Monday: A Tale of Two Swimmers

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Imagine a scenario in which there are two nearly identical athletes, we’ll call them athlete ‘A’ and athlete ‘B’ (I’m very creative in the naming department). These athletes could be from any sport, but since I’m in the midst of transitioning a handful of swimmers from their PIAA dual meet season into the championship season, …

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