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Reflecting Life
I have spent a lifetime looking at my image, sometimes in a mirror, maybe seeing my likeness in a photo or perhaps reflected in someone’s eyes. Often though, how I saw myself was more like looking at my reflection in the side of a car or in a fun house mirror: distorted and warped. Over […]
Read moreMy Health Was Never Just A Number – Dianne’s Story
For as long as I can remember, I have cared about health and taking care of myself. Over the years, this has looked differently depending on my age and what phase of life I was in as well as the people who played an influential role in my life. Maybe it’s […]
Read moreThe Industry Lied To You
The industry lied to you. There is no such thing as “long, lean muscles.” There is only muscle. You cannot change its length, and you cannot “tone” it into something different. These terms are the product of clever marketing, not physiology. Unfortunately, the primary target of this marketing has been women […]
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Squatting – How Deep Is Too Deep?
The goal with all the techniques that I teach, is to include the most amount of muscle mass and take it across the longest effective range of motion. In strength training, we want to include all the muscles, so they get to contribute as much force as possible. But we also want to ensure that […]
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How to Manage Injuries in your Lifting Career
Being injured sucks, but unfortunately, it’s one of the things you sign up for by being a human being. Every lifter has inevitably felt the pain of being injured, the little niggle that has set you back a few weeks. It’s a completely natural part of being normal, functional human being. I have yet to […]
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How To Use Structural Balance In Your Training
Nearly two decades ago, legendary strength and conditioning coach, Charles Poliquin came up with the concept of structural balance. In its simplest terms, structural balance means addressing specific ratios of strength imbalances for optimal athletic development. For instance, if your bench press has stagnated at 140 kilograms, it may not be necessarily the chest and […]
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Do You Have Training ADD?
When I started lifting, I prided myself on how much I did, versus the quality of my session. I would do 5-6 different exercises, and blast through them as quickly as possible. There was no time for rest, in fact, in between sets I would do sets of crunches off the floor to fill any […]
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What is “Optimal” Strength Training?
A couple years into my coaching career, I picked up a book that would change the way I looked at training for the rest of my life. This book was called, “Scientific Principles of Strength Training”, by Mike Israetel, PHD, James Hoffmann, PHD, CSCS, and Chad Wesley Smith. In summary, the book laid out various […]
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Hiring Your First Coach
In many regards, hiring a good coach can be one of the most important decisions you make in your adult life. Seriously. A coach can help you take control of your health, performance, and longevity, what’s more important than that? Many people wander through their training without fully understanding why they are training in the […]
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It’s Never too Late to Lift
I’ve noticed a trend over the past few years, that trend consists of the barbell getting more popular with people who are into their 50’s and beyond. It’s great to see given that there are so many misconceptions around lifting, obviously the word is spreading about the benefits it can have on your health and […]
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