strength and conditioning

Last Minute Tips for Championship Swim Meets

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 …

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Microblog Monday: A Tale of Two Swimmers

Imagine a scenario in which there are two nearly identical athletes, we’ll call them athlete ‘A’ and athlete ‘B’ (I’m very creative in the naming department). These athletes could be from any sport, but since I’m in the midst of transitioning a handful of swimmers from their PIAA dual meet season into the championship season, …

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New Podcast Drop

Last week we went retro–back to the mid 2020-and-a-half’s and I talked virtually on Zoom with Stacey Kadenas, co-owner of Lumber Capital Athletics near Williamsport, PA. This was a somewhat selfish episode for me, as I’ve been inching closer and closer to the unveil of a massive announcement for Ruthless. Its reassuring that someone as …

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Microblog Monday: How Weather Influences Our Warm Up Protocols

Its mid-December and we’re finally starting to see some cooler temps and snow on the ground in east-central Pennsylvania. This change isn’t just an aesthetic shift–throughout the winter our warm ups morph as temperatures plumit. We try to accomplish a handful of objectives during our warm ups. Though each person in our individualized programs will …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 122

This week’s fitness round-up is filled with content from across the web PLUS below you’ll find a few pieces from the Ruthless blog that have come out since our last installment in the series. Going to jump right into this week’s list of featured content. If you’ve come across, or personally published, a piece of …

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Training for a Weighted 28-Mile Ruck

               This Saturday I’ll be completing a 28-Mile Ruck March around the perimeter of Fort Indiantown Gap. This is an event that I’ve done in the past, but I only recently decided to commit to this year’s march. It’s a noble cause which supports and honors fallen soldiers, and its full-length event is certainly not …

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Microblog Monday: Strength Training Without Boredom – 4 New Lifts to Try

No matter what I’m training for at a particular time I almost always end up averaging 4 strength-oriented workouts per week. These workouts can take various forms–some being solely strength workouts, some are strength plus conditioning, but most of these are what we might call ‘power building’ which is a combination of strength plus hypertrophy …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 118

Welcome to the latest edition of our Featured Fitness Content series. Its been a hot minute since our last installment, so I wanted to start by acknowledging the passing of Louie Simmons. I’ve trained at Westside about half a dozen times, during which I box squatted back to back with Louie, who was extraordinarily helpful …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 108

We’ve got another strong edition of our Featured Fitness Content series lined up for you today… Last week’s edition can be found here. Have an article that you think is highly informative for fitness professionals or training enthusiasts? Submit it on our contact page. Onto some great reads! Featured Content All Highly Intelligent People Share …

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