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 …
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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The taper is an integral part of the competitive swimming experience. Swimmers usually first experience the taper at the end of their first competitive swim season, regardless of age or skill level. Even though most swimmers have undergone a taper and most coaches have facilitated one, few understand the physiological underpinnings that make the taper …
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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 …
If I’m being honest, the most common lower body training mistake is simply not training the lower body. Dedicated fitness enthusiasts of the latter half of the last century had a somewhat similar notion to this–strength training for the upper body, plus some running or jogging for the lower body. In my early training years …
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Q. Should I Use a Deload Week at the End of Each Training Cycle? The concept of ‘deloading’ finds its way into many lifters’ training programs far too early in their careers. Deloading typically refers to any time within a training cycle where there is a sizeable cutback in volume, load, intensity, or variable otherwise, …
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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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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 …
We have lots of content to cover this week, from Ketogenic Diets to sleep routines of the ultra-successful, and aging to asthma. But first, you might want to take a look at last week’s Featured Content. You can do so here. At the time of this publication, I’ll be bow hunting Idaho’s Frank Church–River of …
If you missed last week’s Featured Content, you might want to check that out here. You’ll notice that the content this week contains more research than usual. This wasn’t by any direct planning on my part–these are just what has come across my desk and is of sufficient quality that there are some takeaways for …
