Gray Cook: Don’t Rush the Movement Learning Process
During the first four weeks of strength training, your cellular metabolism and cellular structure don’t change. What happens? Movement learning happens ....
Dan John: Older Clients and Falls
Thousands of Americans die every year from falls and fall-related injuries. The right exercises for your older clients can help prevent falling . . . so wh...
Chris Holder: Achieving Training Goals — The Devil is in the Details
What are the training goals we hear about? Seven-minute abs! Eight weeks to a ripped, sculpted physique! Thirty days to a brand new you! All this sound...
Charlie Weingroff: Corrective Exercise for the Movement Professional
Corrective exercise works through negative feedback, so when Charlie Weingroff wants to program exercises that work . . . he tries to pick something that h...
Dan John: Old Drills Reborn—Training Programs for “Everybody Else”
Recently, I had a chance to go to Germany. I love my visits there; I have many friends and I tend to enjoy myself far too much. Gernot Brecht is one of ...
Mike Prevost: Ruck Training Programs – PART 2
In Part One of this series on ruck training, I covered the research pertinent to real-world rucking and the efficacy of different training modalities. Par...
Patrick Ward: Enhancing the Physiological Buffer Zone
A healthy athlete needs to have a Physiological Buffer Zone; What are you doing to that area between full physical capacity and the point of breakdown, inj...
Lee Burton: Corrective Strategies
This idea of corrective strategies—what does that mean? Not all of your clients or athletes need corrective exercise. A lot of people I do the Functio...
Lee Burton: Programming Needs of a High School Football Player
What athletes want isn’t always what they need. Programming to blend their "wants" with what you decide they need is an art, as Lee Burton explains using...
Gray Cook: Feeling Awkward, Intimidated & Disconnected in the Deep Squat
Your squat can’t grow if you can’t do it. Why squat with load, stress or repetition if you already feel awkward, disconnected and intimidated with body...
Mike Prevost: Resistance Training Repetition Schemes and Their Applications
I used to find resistance training programming to be confusing. It can be infinitely complex; with just a few simple tools, there are literally millions of...