What Changes Should I Expect?
All of you regularly participate in weight training at our facility somewhere between 1-4x / week, but are you aware of the changes happening in your body while you lift? There are three primary muscular changes that occur after resistance training: Increased muscle size (hypertrophy), muscle fiber transition (I’ll explain), and enhanced muscular structure. Each of […]
How to Improve Your Pull-Up
For many of you, pull-ups and chin-ups may feel damn near impossible. It’s not as simple as just pulling yourself up; mastering the proper engagement of your upper body makes a significant difference. Today, I’ll share some effective tips, tricks, and benchmarks to help boost your pull-up game. Let’s start with the basics of simply […]
Let’s do WORK!
You have probably heard the term General Physical Preparedness (GPP), also known as work capacity, but you might not know what this means. GPP in its simplest form, is defined as the ability to perform general conditioning tasks to improve strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, structure and skill. Work capacity is the measurable amount of work done in a set […]
Goblet Squat Standards
This month we are featuring the goblet squat as our primary lower body movement, so let’s discuss the benefits and some strength standards we’d like to see you shoot for over the next few weeks. When it comes to training the average person, there is no rival to the goblet squat in efficiency and effectiveness. […]
The Value of Overhead Movement
Something that I think we often take for granted in life is the ability to reach overhead to grab an item out of a high cabinet. I was up in Northern Michigan a few weekends ago for a family vacation, and I had the opportunity to spend some time with my 86 year old grandmother. […]
Back to School Plan for Success
Who else can’t believe it’s already that time of year again! School is about to be back in session, and many of our schedules are about to go through an abrupt change. Kids will be getting up earlier, afternoon schedules will be packed with after-school activities and sports, and it can get overwhelming at times. With […]
Common Misconceptions about Fitness
A few weeks ago, I attended a conference in Chicago, and one of the presenters spoke about the 8 things the public still doesn’t understand about fitness. It was a very entertaining presentation, so I have decided to share it with you today. 1. Running doesn’t help you lose weight. Running is a great way […]
WHY DIETS DON’T WORK
You’d think that with so many different types of diets out there, there’s bound to be one that works, right? Well, not exactly. In fact, diets have a 95% failure rate. While many people experience the fast results that diets promise, they’re typically short lived. This is because dieting works against our body’s innate behaviors, […]
WALKING!
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and out of a state of illness.” – Soren Kierkegaard Walking might be the most underrated thing we do for our fitness, health, longevity, and body composition. It is one of the most beneficial things you can […]
Why We Train Unilateral Patterns
We feature a lot of unilateral aka single sided exercises in our training programs. Unilateral training provides a unique number of variations that address everything from injury rehab, to power training and dynamic movements such as sprinting, depending on how you apply the principles. Let’s take a deeper look into the many benefits of training […]