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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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 …
Here’s the latest edition of Featured Fitness Content; as always the series is based around interesting stories, emerging research in health and fitness, theories proposed by leading experts in the industry, philosophical pieces on self-improvement, and more. If you’ve written or have come across some great fitness content that our readers should see, be sure …
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 …
By now the value of sleep should be completely self-evident. Sleep modulates the production of hormones that are valuable to peak athletic and cognitive function like hGH (Growth Hormone), cortisol, and testosterone. Additionally, adequate sleep helps improve insulin sensitivity, burn fat, increase working IQ, and generally improves a variety of other variables that make you …
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In this Internal Program Review installment, we’ll be covering a single pre-season workout for a youth track and cross country athlete. Though this is for a female, in the pre-high school training phases, sex matters very little in training style; but as these athletes develop more and more, the training requirements begin to diverge. Athletes …
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Going into championship season athletes are struggling to make last-minute changes to their training, to their mindset, and diet. What are the best changes an athlete should make at this point in the season? The short answer is none. Any changes made in haste are best not made at all. Some blatantly obvious changes may …
Last week, we posted an article explaining that not only are endurance training and strength training acceptable to overlap during the in-season, but that when used concurrently, strength training can actually reduce the chance that an endurance athlete will fall victim to overtraining. Here is one such example of a program that we developed for …
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Let’s imagine that you’re deadlifting. If you’re training with us at Ruthless Performance, you’ll likely do 1-2 sets of 10 reps with an empty barbell before adding weight; for intermediate-level athletes we’ll do 1-2 sets of normal barbell deadlifts. For more advanced trainees it may be a set of Jefferson Deadlifts followed by a set …
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