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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 52 (February)

If you’ve missed Volume 51 of the Featured Fitness Content series, you can view it here. Since our last volume in the series, we’ve also added four very popular articles to the site which you may be interested in reading: Internal Program Review: In-Season Strength Training for an Advanced High School Swimmer, Manipulating the Variables …

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The Physiology of Performance – Part 1: Understanding the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

An unfortunate setback in the science of human performance is the large emphasis currently placed on muscle physiology as a means of maximizing performance. While obviously the muscles play a critical role in athleticism, the muscular system is completely at the whim of the nervous system; the junction of these two is known categorically as …

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Lecture Takeaways: Ruthless Performance Methods & Practices for Peak Athletic Function

Its easy to imagine how a lecture scheduled for 30 minutes, on a topic as encompassing as optimizing performance, could end up being an hour and 6-minute open-ended discussion. This is precisely what happened this past week at Bloomsburg University during our guest presentation on how Ruthless Performance trains individuals to achieve high performance. The …

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