"Recovery days don't mean much and you should just rest passively" This is dangerous advice, but actually what I undoubtedly believed at one point sadly. Recovery and Regeneration Days are a dedicated training theme that provide tremendous opportunity to gain an edge over competition, or at least get the most out of your program. The effect is twofold. You're maximizing the day itself, but how you go about your business will always determine in part the quality of your next

"Use intense strength training to correct your posture more than actual postural restoration drills" It almost goes without saying that posture drills normally don't translate, simply because they don't prepare you for moving in everyday life (Law of Specificity). You can do static positions all you want and it won't hurt anything, but you still always need movement, tension, stress, and appropriate stimuli (I,e, Plank) or it's fundamentally useless in all cases, as there ar

"Use bearable static pressure when Foam Rolling (SMFR)" There are a lot of approaches circulating when it comes to applying foam rolling soft tissue work. Many are plausible and effective for different objectives, but when It comes to managing neural and muscle tone or activity, the original message associated with the resilient technique still reigns supreme after all these years. Be sure to also look out for triggers that tend to form at or near the musculo-tendonous jun

"Movement evaluations are mandatory for all clients and athletes" I want to preface that at one time or another over the past 20 years I have practiced exercise testing and various popular and supposedly essential movement evaluations with my clients and athletes. Whether Its The NASM's OH/Single Leg Squat Screening, Goniometric Testing, The Functional Movement Screen, or Orthopedic Tests (i.e. Kuhns Series), Impingement Tests, or any other I've been there and done that. Th

The Foam Roll Pushup w/Deficit This diverse and unique pushup variation combines shoulder stability/centration, potential chest and shoulder hypertrophy and endurance, upper body warm-up/preparation, improved flexibility and mobility, and basic levels of strength in beginner-level clients, or de-load and neural maintenance in advanced-level lifters. If you were to pick one exercise type that provides the most training variation, then the push-up would undoubtedly be at the to

i think this topic pretty much goes without saying at this point. The training industry has done a great job collectively in convincing the public and educating trainers and coaches on what truly matters in both preventing and treating injuries. Progressive Overload, tissue remodeling techniques, inflammation support, active recovery, strength tests, and more are common practices used through strength training that help heal and strengthen various injuries. I want to intr

Let's take a look at the remainder of the upper half of the human body and identify which areas need stretching, and vice versa. In part #1, you were introduced to a foundational stretching principle and gained valuable practical insight into how to go about selecting stretches for specific joints of the lower body. Recall that some areas are designed to be stretched, while others are naturally geared towards stability and not so much stretching. Next, we are going to look a

It's more than safe to say that the notion of stretching for athletes hasn't lost any traction in recent times. Like core training, I don't think that it ever will, regardless of whether or not it's benefiting you, which is highly debatable, to say the least. I digress, though, and for this article specifically, the focus will remain almost solely on what areas of the lower body you undoubtedly need to stretch. The next follow-up article will cover the remaining upper half of

I truly and sincerely hope that gets people up in arms because it should, but I'm definitely not lying. Why is it that I've been able to develop top-notch athletes for two decades without integrating more than 5 percent of the entire program coming from static stretching? The reasons are many, and I discuss all of this in my stretching book here. If you happen to like what you read here, then I would strongly suggest picking up a copy of my book, and then you'll never hav