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Take Those Kettlebells Outside
It’s spring, the weather is warming up, the flowers are blooming and the sun is shining.
If you’ve been hibernating all winter and your workouts have gotten dull, now is the time to breathe new life i…
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It's in the Hips, Part 4
In this fourth and final installment dedicated to better utilization of the hips, I show some crawling progressions to emphasize that we can sometimes skip mobility drills and just move instead. But …
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It’s in the Hips: Part 3
Part three of this series on the hips continues the focus on dynamic hip action demonstrated in the second installment by implementing explosive hip drive into the Hanging Leg Raise sequence. After r…
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It's in the Hips, Part 2
In part one of this four-part series, I talked about how hip stiffness is usually part of a larger complex of stiff tissues and joints throughout the body. I then offered a very basic mobilization se…
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Check Your Neck (Before You Wreck It)
I’m imagining this is you, exercising.
I can’t tell you how many people walk into my gym with neck and/or shoulder pain. Okay I can, it’s a lot—probably half. There are a couple of factors that cause…
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My Journey to the 1 Arm, 1 Leg Push Up
I’ve always been interested in mastering body weight exercises. There is a fascination with athletes that are able to push and pull their body around with total body strength as opposed to those that …
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The "Dirty Dozen" Exercises (Part 1) by Phil Ross
More often than not, I get asked “Coach, what are the best exercises to do?” Or “If you were to choose “X” amount of exercises, what would they be?”. There are a plethora of great exercises and variat…
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