‘Tis that time of the week again… The time where we round-up the best content in fitness, health, and strength & conditioning from across the web and share it with you fine folks. This month I have to make a point to be more methodical about my search for information… Usually, I just scan through …
To start, you may want to revisit last week’s Featured Fitness Content by clicking here. Beyond, providing you with a variety of links to great content from across the web, this on-going series also details what we’ve been up to at Ruthless, as far as what’s new and exciting with our operations and more. Featured …
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 …
Because of the current shut-downs affecting Pennsylvania-based high school athletes, Ruthless Performance is opening up our new Mobility & Fitness Studio early for outdoor conditioning workouts for high school athletes. The Ruthless Performance Mobility & Fitness Studio is located at 2205 W Market St Pottsville, PA 17901 (in the Revive Chiropractic Building). This second round of COVID shutdowns stipulates that only …
Even with the latest round of shut-downs in Pennsylvania, we’ve been at if full-time working on new content, making sure our athletes are getting their training in from home, and building out a few large-scale projects concurrently. If you want to catch up with the last installment of Featured Fitness Content, you can do so …
With the new shut down measures in Pennsylvania, I wanted to get out a new workout for our swimmers to do at-home. This program is designed for high school swimmers, any high school swimmer, but it helps if the athlete has trained with us in the past so that they are used to the formatting …
A Comprehensive Look at Our 3 Day At-Home Swimming Dryland Program (Program 2) Read More »
This week’s list of featured content is as eclectic as ever. The Featured Fitness Content series actually outdates the origin of Ruthless Performance. Prior to ruthless, the featured fitness content series was hosted on The Fitness Resource–the business from which ruthless evolved. The Featured Fitness Content series is a great opportunity for me to stay …
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 …
Foundational Series: 3 Common Lower Body Training Mistakes Read More »
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, …
Foundational Series: Over-Training & Under-Recovery Read More »
Just a quick heads up… The team has set up a landing page for information on our ongoing Expedition 118 project. Again, Expedition 118 is an attempt, led by us, to break a paddleboarding world record while raising $500,000 for clean water initiatives. We are getting very close to confirming the primary beneficiaries of the …
