Lots going on at Ruthless these days. The final week of the PIAA swim season is upon us, culminating in the State Championship meet this Friday. Ruthless Performance managed to send 3 of our Aqua Jocks to the state meet; 2 boys and 1 girl. After this a big rest then a big push for …
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 …
We’re at Installment 94… What happens when we get to 100 you ask? I’ve been asking myself the same question. The Featured Fitness Content series actually started with the predecessor to Ruthless Performance–The Fitness Resource. Perhaps for installment 100 I’ll dig out some of the earliest featured articles for a re-feature… You can find the …
Its 2021 now… That digit has changed, but not much else. This year can be whatever you make it into; just like last year. If you’re interested in reading through our last installment of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so here. Now onto this week’s list… Featured Content Examination of vitamin intakes among US …
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 …
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 …
Restrictions are easing up in Pennsylvania, and since we are decentralized, the various affiliate locations fall under different jurisdictions. So if you train with Ruthless Performance in-person, you can expect to hit the gym floor relatively soon. But onto the expert content from across the web… As always, you can view last week’s edition of …
Before we dive into this week’s featured content, I wanted to introduce everyone to our new Exercise of the Month series that we’re doing for the site. This month’s exercise is the Banded Rotational Kettlebell Swing. You can learn more about this exercise under the online education tab, or by clicking the link here. This …
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 …
