March provides the greatest contrast in training at Ruthless. For our swimmers, early March means that taper is in full swing, preceding the championship meets at the district, state, and even national level. Following these meets, our swimmers get a solid two-week break. We’re staunch advocates of the total removal of swimming and rigorous exercise …
Here is this week’s fitness content round-up. But first, if you’d like to view last week’s, you can find it here. There’s a lot going on at Ruthless at the moment, plus on a personal note, my training is getting into high-gear for my speed ascent of King’s Peak in Utah. So I’ll get right …
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 …
Internal Program Review – Summer Strength Training for a High School Swimmer Read More »
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. …
A Comprehensive Look at Our 3 Day At-Home Swimming Dryland Program Read More »
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 …
Tip #1: Never Underestimate the Band Pull Apart Regardless of if our swimmers are just doing a short warm-up, like our Champion Complex, or a more lengthy workout, I always encourage our athletes to do at least a handful of band pull aparts. For athletes that I’m fortunate enough to work with throughout the year, …
