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5 Sleep Enhancement Strategies You Can Use Tonight

By now the value of sleep should be completely self-evident. Sleep modulates the production of hormones that are valuable to peak athletic and cognitive function like hGH (Growth Hormone), cortisol, and testosterone. Additionally, adequate sleep helps improve insulin sensitivity, burn fat, increase working IQ, and generally improves a variety of other variables that make you …

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Ruthless Performer Q&A – Maximizing Health Span with Kyle Fisher

**Editor’s Note: Today’s Ruthless Performer Q&A Series is one of the most expansive in the Q&A series to-date. Like many health professionals, Kyle’s own history in sports and wellness lends credibility to many of his thoughts on health and maximizing the health of athletes and the general population. If you like what Kyle has to …

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

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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Building a plate

Making small changes will lead to bigger results. Start off with behavioral changes before jumping on to the new diet out there. This means things like eating on a smaller plate, removing the salt from the table, reducing serving sizes, etc. In general, a “healthy” or “healthier” plate should include a protein, whole grain, complex …

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Ruthless Performance Guide to Mineral Supplementation

Previously, we talked about the importance and effect of vitamins in performance. We now move on to minerals. Fundamentally, minerals are broken into different categories based on their function; Major, Trace and Ultra-trace minerals. Despite the fact that minerals only contribute only about ~4% of total body weight, their functions are vital for cellular activity, …

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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 46

View the last edition of ‘Featured Fitness Content’ here. Personal Training, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning 138 | Dane Miller | Country Boys Can Survive Hosted by Zach Even Esh Everything You Need To Know To Write Incredible Programs By Nancy Newell Assess And Correct Leg Dominance  By Jennifer Pilotti via Breaking Muscle Should Your Personal Trainer Be …

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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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Featured Fitness Content: Volume 44

View the last edition of ‘Featured Fitness Content’ here. Personal Training, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning Performance Programming Principles: Installment 2  By Eric Cressey The 3 Main Goals of an Assessment By Dean Somerset Step-by-Step Glute Training By Mike Robertson   Weight Loss, Nutrition, and General Health Why You Might Not Need to Learn More About Nutrition By Mike …

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