Rather than using a single exercise for this installment of Exercise of the Month, we’re going to discuss an exercise complex; one which we use frequently across our athletic population. Like many training evolutions at Ruthless, the Build & Balance Complex came out of my own training experiments. In this particular case, I was looking …
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We’re ending the week with another installment of Featured Fitness Content. Last week we covered topics ranging from bodyweight delt exercises, to the best exercises for soccer players, benefits of max effort sprinting, and more. If you’re interested in last week’s edition, you can find it here. Below is the content that caught my eye …
Before we dive into this week’s featured content, I wanted to introduce everyone to our new Exercise of the Month series that we’re doing for the site. This month’s exercise is the Banded Rotational Kettlebell Swing. You can learn more about this exercise under the online education tab, or by clicking the link here. This …
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 …
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Here’s out latest fitness content round-up from across the web. If you’d like to view our last installment of the series, you can do that here. Our readers are always invited to submit fitness content for the series via our contact page. We are always looking for the latest and greatest content from leading fitness …
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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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 …
You can find the 52nd edition of our Featured Fitness Content series here. We’ll be adding these segments more regularly as we find unique, insightful, or otherwise valuable fitness content across the web. If you’ve come across or written a good post to be featured, submit it on our contact page. [VIDEO] The Effects of …
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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Regardless of your preferred cycling style, be it mountain biking, distance, or sprint if you’re spending a lot of time pedaling, it is very easy for the ratio of quadriceps to hamstring input in each pedal to get further and further out of whack. In a perfect world, you would have a near even input …
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