The Best Speed Training Drills

The Best Speed Training Drills

Maybe you are looking to gain some athletic edge over your teammates in your sport of choice, or you are trying to gain speed to cut down your half-marathon time…

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Chin-ups vs Pull-ups

chin-ups vs pull-ups

Both chin-ups (supinated) and pull-ups (pronated) are great movements for strength, muscle, and performance; they’re (unsurprisingly) similar from a muscular standpoint in that they mostly target the same muscle groups,…

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The Exercise You Should Be Doing #4

📝 It’s easy to categorize an exercise like split squats and lunges as knee-dominant since they involve a “push” through the front leg. Likewise, exercises that involve a “pull” through…

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The Exercise You Should Be Doing #3

The 2-KB racked Slide Board Lateral Lunge⁣ ⁣ Whether it’s to improve athletic performance, reduce injury risk, improve movement quality, want to exercise, or chase down fly balls in beer…

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The Exercise You Should Be Doing #2

Bear crawls are a hugely underrated and under-utilized exercise. Assuming they’re done right – unlike the sloppy bear crawls that everyone did in 6th grade gym class – they can…

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How and Why To Use Sleds

Sleds are a great tool for training just about every physical quality there is, (obviously) depending on what you’re trying to achieve. Why? For a lot of reasons, but here…

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Resting is Not Always the Answer

it band syndrome

When an athlete experiences pain and/or an injury, one of the most common responses is to ice the injured area, take some ibuprofen, and rest. The problem with this approach,…

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Knees over Toes? Good or bad?

In 1978, a study came out suggesting that letting your knees travel over your toes is “bad” for your knees, an idea that caught on and stayed around for quite…

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