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Online Training: The Next Evolution
It’s not often you get the chance to launch a product, or do anything for that matter, that has the capacity to change the trajectory of people’s lives. Today, I feel distinctly lucky to announce an...
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Observations of High School Strength Coach: Year 1
Observation is a powerful tool for a strength and conditioning coach to gain experience at any level or years in the game. Personally, simple observations have yielded countless lessons: seeing the...
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Giving 100 %: What does it Really Mean?
Growing up I was always surrounded by coaches who would say things like, “You’ve got to go out there and give 100%,” and “I need 100% from you today.” The funny thing is, I wasn’t a great athlete...
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Online Coaching: Truth or Hype?
As a young strength and conditioning coach I always thought the world of Online Coaching was garbage. The athletes I was working with were having a ton of success and for the life of me, I couldn’t...
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TrainHeroic 2.0: Revealing the New Platform
There are two approaches to building anything: 1) To build upon and simply add new to an existing foundation OR 2) To build from scratch and start from ground zero These truths apply to all realms of...
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To Kip or Not To Kip
Since the dawn of time, man has been challenged with many difficult choices – cheese or pepperoni? Ferrari or Lambo? Gatorade or Powerade? And of course, strict or kipping pull-ups… At some point...
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The Simple Way to a Bigger Chest
In 10th grade my buddy Jason told me that he’s not doing any exercise other than bench press. When I pressed him for a reason, he said that as long as you have a big, swole, chest nothing else...
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Training with Percentages: Programming for Optimal Results
Look at this dude…training with percentages During the 1980’s there were 2 common thoughts or beliefs when it came to training. The first was that lifting weights over 90% of a person’s 1 rep maximum...
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Power Training for Sport- Progressions for Success
Power Training: My First Mistake I’ve got a secret to tell you. When I first started out as a young strength coach 15 years ago, I didn’t include the Olympic Lifts in my programs. Blasphemy, I know....
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Power Partnership: TrainHeroic with FrontDesk Pro
As the great Sam Cooke said, “Change gonna come.” And indeed, change is coming to the world of competitive fitness, with its athletes leading the movement. Rather than hiring one coach to support all...
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The 100 Rep Warm Up
If you are like me, you hate wasting time with a warm up. And nowadays, people will have you believe that you need to spend hours warmup up. Stretch this, activate that, and on top of that, they make...
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3 Training Strategies to Crush your next Adventure Race
1 – Your adventure race training needs some structure Structure = simplicity Structured programming = predictable improvements in the physiological capacities necessary for chaotic and random...
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Why it’s Important to Cool Down
If your workout is my warm up, then my cool down is your……no wait, your cool down is my…… wait is there a saying for that? Well, whether there’s a saying for it or not, the cool down is an important...
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How Much Time Does It Take To Learn Technique in the Olympic Lifts?
I recently happened upon a question in another forum where the reader was concerned that learning the technique of the Olympic lifts might cause him to lose all the strength he’d gained in the previous...
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Setting Goals
Here’s the deal; if you don’t know where you are going, then how could you possibly get there? There are 3 types of goals that athletes should be setting to help them stay focus and achieve greatness....
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USA Weightlifting Nationals 2015 Event Results
Weightlifting is rising in America. With the rapid growth of functional fitness and barbell sports in our country, weightlifting’s spotlight continues to beam brighter each day. Registrations for...
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Strongman Competitors + General Population…It’s Time to Shake Hands
It’s not the only one, but there’s a sport out there filled with athletes who pour decades of time, money, and effort into becoming great with little to no recognition. It’s a world, at least at the...
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Olympic Lifting For Rugby Performance
Rugby is a game of explosive movement within a paradigm that tests an athlete’s mental and physical stamina. The ability to repeatedly perform explosive movements like sprinting, jumping and tackling...
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CrossFit Competition Tips to Keep you Contending
Going into the final event of the 2015 Crossfit Games Matt Fraser had the lead over Ben Smith. If he could stay ahead of Smith, Fraser would be the Fittest Man on Earth, a title he had nearly held the...
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Hydration Simplified: Your body is ~60% water 63% of that water is inside your cells Dehydration effects cells ability to function normally Water is essential in: making cellular energy for muscle...
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