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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 50 (Mid-December through Mid-January)

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Mid-December through Mid-January has been filled with great fitness content from top influencers from trusted industry professionals. Because of this, we’re going to be re-launching our Featured Fitness Content series that we’ve been providing our readership since the early days of Ruthless Performance when the business still went by The Fitness Resource. If you’re a …

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Dryland Training Workout 12-12

Dryland Training Microblog: Tip 2

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Tip #2: Train Lower Leg Flexion for More Resilient Breaststrokers   Lower leg flexion, notably leg curls like the machine hamstring curl, swiss ball hamstring curl, valslide hamstring curl, and a handful of other variants regularly take the backseat in targeted hamstring training to hip hinging variations like the Romanian Deadlift (RDL), Trap Bar Deadlift, …

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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Elite Sports Nutrition with Jesse Rodriguez R.D.

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Today’s Q&A guest is our own sports nutritionist Jesse Rodriguez. Jesse has his own prolific history as a national-level swimmer for El Salvador and here in the United States competing in college and post-graduate for the University of Southern California. This all makes Jesse a world-class resource as not many people have competed at this …

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Internal Program Review: High School Swimmer Pre-Season Strength Training – Day 2

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With the vast expanse that is the winter swim season raipidly approaching, I wanted to take the time to yet again detail one of our swimming programs. In this particular case, we’re going to explain the Ruthless Performance methods that made this program so effective. To provide context for this case study, we will be …

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A Comparison Of Several Sports Drinks

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Electrolytes consist of sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonate. Workouts lasting less than 1 hour typically only need to re-hydrate with water but for workouts >1 hour, require liquids with a combination of carbohydrates and electrolytes.  Electrolytes are needed because they are, along with water, are lost through sweat which is the bodies primary …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 48

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View the last edition of ‘Featured Fitness Content’ here. Personal Training, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning Does Shaving Improve Swimming Performance? By Allan Phillips via Swimming Science   Weight Loss, Nutrition, and General Health The 12 Most Effective Ways to Spark the Recovery Process By John Rusin Are Nightshade Vegetables Bad for You? An Evidence-Based Look By Kimberly Yawitz …

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Internal Program Review: Collegiate Swimmer Off-Season Strength & Conditioning Program – Day 1

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The strength and conditioning community is far too fractioned; proprietary training programs and secrecy hide the inner workings of many sports performance coaching theories and facilities. At Ruthless Performance, we find this idea entirely backwards—this mentality is a sign of some fragile egos and insecurity within the industry. To do our part in mitigating this, …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 47

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View the last edition of ‘Featured Fitness Content’ here. Personal Training, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning Use Olympic Weightlifting To Transform Strength Into Speed By Antonio Squillante via Breaking Muscle Softball: 3 Things You Didn’t Know That Will Upgrade Your Warm-Ups By Nancy Newell   Weight Loss, Nutrition, and General Health 10 Proven Benefits of Green Tea  By …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 42

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View the last edition of ‘Featured Fitness Content’ here. Personal Training, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning What is DOMS and How Do You Deal With It? via COR Beyond Mastery: Kettlebell Flow Workout  By Karen Smith via Girls Gone Strong Restore Your Breathing and Improve Your Conditioning via Diesel Strength Coaching art & science  By Vern Gambetta via …

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