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 …
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, …
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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Howdy y’all. June has turned out to be an extremely busy time for me, as I’m spending all but 8 days of the month on the road. With this in mind, you can actually see one of my latest posts on our instagram page, which talks briefly about how I manage some of the physical …
Here at Ruthless Performance, we’re in the midst of our championship season with our swimmers from across the PIAA District XI. In years past, our swimming roster had expanded well beyond the bounds of District XI, but as swimming numbers wane across the state, our roster has slowed down as well. Our swimmers’ performances, however, …
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 …
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 diving into this week’s round-up, I wanted to point viewers to our new Human Advancement Podcast. You can find this anywhere that you enjoy listening to podcasts (click here for links to the various platforms). So far, we’ve already released 4, 3 of which were exclusive content with leading industry experts. The easiest place …
I’m proud to announce the official launch of the Human Advancement Podcast. I’ve been compiling audio from various events, interviews, guest lectures, expert panels, and more since October; now we have months worth of content logged to supplement our ongoing effort to bring industry experts, high performing athletes, and sought-after personalities to your phone, speaker, …
If you’d like to catch up on some older installments of our Featured Fitness Content series, you can view our last edition here. Also, before we get into this week’s installment, I wanted to remind our readers that online programming is still available with Ruthless Performance. For a flat rate, we’ll put together a program …
