Conventionally, warm-ups are understood to be a time in a workout prior to more vigorous exercise in which the heart rate is elevated and the core body temperature is brought up. Warming up, however, should be a very different thing for different pursuits. Elevating the body temperature and heart rate are highly valuable but are …
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 …
I need to do a great deal of clarification when I tell a prospective client that we place such a heavy emphasis on the trapezius–in addition to the glutes. In short, the glutes are an underdeveloped, yet critical muscle for control of the femur (and therefore the leg), while the “traps” are an often underdeveloped, …
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Hey all you cool cats and kittens… Here’s a fun fact: the Tiger King aired on Netflix almost 18 months ago. Since the doc’s debut, we’ve been living through an unusually pervasive form of craziness that hasn’t shown any signs of letting up. But craziness in the broader world is no reason to stop advancing …
Wrestlers tend to be the most underappreciate athletic group in nearly any school setting. The wrestling room is often hidden out of sight and wedged in some remote corner of a school building or college campus. This placement isn’t by accident; wrestlers and wrestling coaches rarely complain because of their stoic nature and deep understanding …
We’ve got another strong edition of our Featured Fitness Content series lined up for you today… Last week’s edition can be found here. Have an article that you think is highly informative for fitness professionals or training enthusiasts? Submit it on our contact page. Onto some great reads! Featured Content All Highly Intelligent People Share …
**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 …
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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Rather than using a single exercise for this installment of Exercise of the Month, we’re going to discuss an exercise complex; one which we use frequently across our athletic population. Like many training evolutions at Ruthless, the Build & Balance Complex came out of my own training experiments. In this particular case, I was looking …
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There’s hundreds of reasons why ankle health should be a top priority in your training routine. If you’re a hunter, heavy, restrictive boots hinder your ankle mobility. If you’re a swimmer or dancer, you likely spend most of your time practicing in plantarflexion and almost no time in dorsiflexion. Though these may seem like unusual …
