The Ego Emerges Often (But, Do You Notice?)

You know that nervous feeling in your gut on test day from when you were a kid? I recently completed some professional development with some of the brightest minds in …

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8-Week Course Teaches Beginners Strongman

This is the most fun you’ll ever have in a gym. Period. Strongman 101 is an 8-week course walking you through the details of the odd lifts found in the …

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Future Generations Have Unknown Potential Thanks to Positive Gym Connotation

When my parents were growing up, the idea of going to a commercial gym (for a regular civilian) wasn’t a concept in the zeitgeist. During my childhood, there were gyms …

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Intensity: The Fitness Industry’s Most Bastardized Concept

Zero trainers missed the basic memo that intensity is required to drive adaptation and improve fitness qualities. I’d venture to offer that almost zero consumers are confused about the need …

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Skill Transfer is Only Available to the Curious

I found myself inexplicably frustrated the other day. I won’t say it was frustration directed at a student, because it wasn’t. It was a frustration directed at a coaching situation.  …

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