The Hook Grip is one of the most fundamental pieces in the weightlifting puzzle, and also something that gives a lot of new lifters a great deal of trouble because of a misunderstanding of how the hook is actually created and held. The hook grip is a pronated (palms facing the lifter) grip in which …
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.” -Mark Manson Achieving fitness at times may not fun. It can be painful to the ego and body. Becoming a fitter and heather you is going to have its challenges. But it is worth it. One of my favorite basketball players growing up …
Anything Worth Achieving Is Going to Suck at times. Read More »
Wall-balls Again?! It’s Wednesday, and you walk into to the gym to find that you’re doing burpees yet AGAIN! Or worse, Thrusters! YUCK! “BUT WE JUST DID THOSE ON MONDAY!!!” you yell. Should athletes really repeat the same movements more than once a week? Absolutely! Without a question doing full body movements every day is …
Repeating movements in the same week done right. Read More »
Pumping iron in the gym: It used to be thought of as an activity mostly for men, and young men at that. Even in the 1990s and early 2000s, whenever I went to the gym, 90 percent of the women there usually spent their times on the treadmills, bikes and ellipticals, leaving the squat racks …
How we’ll help you realize you’re not too old and broken for the gym! Read More »
You have to start Now!!!!! “I’m cutting out booze on January 1st.” “I’ll worry about getting fit after I give birth.” “No sugar starts next month. Now give me a slice of that apple pie!” Human beings sure do like the idea of making changes at the “perfect time.” But is there ever a perfect time? …
Why the “I will start tomorrow, next week, next month” doesn’t work Read More »
A rep cutter is someone who makes a conscious decision to cut the number of repetitions performed during a workout. The phrase, “if you cheat, you are only cheating yourself” is only partly true. Let me explain why… Yes, if you cut reps, you are cheating yourself. In order to achieve results, you should finish …
Cutting Reps does not only hurt you but the whole community. Read More »
Most people would never approach a 1-Mile run by all-out sprinting the first lap. Most people know, instinctively, that they can’t sustain that pace. And yet, if you put those same people in a CrossFit gym and ask them to do “Kelly,” that’s exactly what they’ll do. We’ve all been there. Coach calls out 3,2,1, …
Run faster by running less’ may sound an odd notion, but what if you could smash your marathon PB by chopping your mileage? RW’s injury-prone marathon veteran Kerry McCarthy gave it a go. See if this story sounds familiar: you sign up for a marathon and you tell yourself that this is going to be …
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Science says when it comes to sticking to a workout program, we have been doing it all wrong! As a coach, one of my biggest challenges—along with getting clients to change their diet—is getting them to remain consistent with their fitness. I, as many others, have often assumed it largely comes down to two things: …
Imagine your metabolism allowed you to eat what you could when you were 15? According to holistic nutrition coach and author Kate Deering (http://katedeering.com/), you can get your youthful metabolism back—or at least you can speed it up despite your age. In fact, she wrote a book about it called: “How to heal your metabolism: …
