How to Prepare Your Body for Exercise
August 19, 2025
Near the beginning of a training session at the gym this morning, I mentioned to someone that I appreciated his ability to load up a
Near the beginning of a training session at the gym this morning, I mentioned to someone that I appreciated his ability to load up a
I find it interesting how topics of conversation at the gym seem to come in waves. Last week numerous people told me that they had
Looking at the heart rate dynamics from my strength-focused sessions over the past couple of Mondays reminded me of a fitness development concept that I
Today I’m taking a one-tip interlude from the aforementioned summer recipes series to share a quick story about my experience from the Grand Canyon trip (mentioned in
Last weekend I taught a StrongFirst Kettlebell 101 course at the gym. The four-hour course covers both the basics and some finer details of goblet
A while back I wrote an overview of two training principles which promote long-term progress when applied to program design: Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands (SAID) and Same
If you’ve trained with kettlebells for almost any length of time longer than ten minutes, you probably have callused hands and a sound understanding of
Last week after a group training session at the gym, I was playing around with doing handstands on parallettes. (It’s something I’ve been practicing on-and-off
In a number of past tips I’ve said that most adults seem to have stiff hips and thoracic spines (mid-backs), with the latter also often
One year in the early 2010s during the Sectionals qualification period for the CrossFit Games (roughly March to mid-April), Rich Froning made a comment that