With the shutdown drastically reducing everyone’s access to gym equipment, I’ve been reverting to some older favorites that were up until now, lost to the endless possibilities found within the comfortable settings of well-equipped gyms. In both my own training and in my clients’ training, I’ve had to go back to some older training strategies …
Exercise of the Month: Banded Rotational KB Swing Read More »
This post provides the PDF component to the latest episode of the Human Advancement Podcast. In that episode, I detail how Ruthless Performance spent a month training an elite high school swimmer in the summer of 2019. This is not the first segment in the Internal Review Series. We regularly provide open access to our …
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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 …
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 …
Home-based workouts are a divisive topic in the fitness world; though a seemingly innocuous idea, home-based workouts and their efficacy are no less prone to create clashes than keto, long-distance running, soy, or dairy. Regardless of your opinion on this topic, home-based workouts are our primary source of self-betterment in this world of closed gyms, …
I’m proud to announce the official launch of the Human Advancement Podcast. I’ve been compiling audio from various events, interviews, guest lectures, expert panels, and more since October; now we have months worth of content logged to supplement our ongoing effort to bring industry experts, high performing athletes, and sought-after personalities to your phone, speaker, …
With no end in sight to the current pandemic, I’ve compiled a free 3-Day Dryland Workout for High School Swimmers. This workout is primarily intended for Pottsville Area High School Swim Team, which has extensive experience on many of these exercises and know some of the specifics with regards to how we coach what cue. …
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Before I get into our latest fitness content round-up, I wanted to mention that I’ll be hosting a free, online workshop TONIGHT at 7:00 PM. The workshop is At-Home Performance Enhancement Strategies. This will be highly interactive and free-form. I’ll be covering various tactics to keep your physical and mental performance at its peak while …
Very few people are happy to be in this current quarantine situation. People are falling apart without the structure and rigor of high level performance training. Because everyone’s schedule has been so radically thrown off, we’ve largely resorted to the easiest possible solution–laziness and apathy. The good news, many think, is that you’re not the …
Over the past week, Ruthless Performance has had a few appearances on various media platforms. With the current lockdown, our goal as a company has pivoted to a large degree, but ultimately for the same purpose–maximizing human performance. But our new (and temporary) focus on wellness isn’t to the exclusion of performance. Performing at the …
