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 …
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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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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Its May–do you know where your new years resolutions are?
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 …
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 …
Late last month I headed west. We (my wife and I) packed up the dogs for two mini stays–the first of which was in Escalante, UT, followed by a another stay along California’s central coast. Usually on my travels I don’t set aside all that much time for direct training. My usual plan is to …
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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 …
In a sport like swimming, most of the preparations for the big meets are made months in advanced. In most programs, the workload has been decreased for the 2-4 weeks leading up to the event. Sure, technique is being polished up–normally right up until the day of–but most of the serious work of the season …
