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6 Everyday Stretches for People Who Sit Too Much
Everyday stretches for anyone who sits for a living or sits too much at home. Sitting is the new smoking. Sitting for eight hours a day can be just as...
A Complete Guide to the Hip Hinge
The hip hinge is a foundational movement pattern that is more relevant in this day and age than arguably any other pattern. Think about it: as you're...
5 Ways to Avoid Dangerous Ab Rollout Mistakes
The ab wheel rollout is an advanced core strengthening exercise that teaches core-bracing techniques – similar to the plank. While the rollout is fairly...
Is Your Back Healthy? Find Out With These 2 Spine Tests
Whether you're squatting, deadlifting, tossing a med ball against a wall, running, or swimming, guess what? Your spine is moving, hence the impetus to...
Can a Mattress Improve Your Athletic Performance?
Ever since my collegiate football career ended, I’ve suffered from spondylothesis, a fracture of my L5 vertebra that causes nerve pain down my leg and spasms in the muscles of [...]
Half-Kneeling Exercises Will Improve Your Strength, Speed and Agility
If you are not familiar with half-kneeling training, odds are you are missing out on a lot of training benefits either as a strength coach or an...
Exercises for Toning Your Abs Without Straining Your Low Back
Anytime you round your low back you put strain on your low back, specifically your lumbar discs. Our low back is compromised when we try to do...
Finally! An Ab Crunch That Actually Works
Don’t ever do another Crunch or Sit-Up again. What were once gold-standard exercises for building strong and ripped abs, Crunches and Sit-Ups are quickly losing respect. Research has found that [...]
Baseball Strength Training: 5 Exercises to Avoid
The fall usually means the start of the off season for most baseball players. Players have been playing games since February or March and have put their...
The Right (and Wrong) Way to do Rotational Exercises
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do every exercise. For rotational exercises, the wrong way is done far too frequently. Why? It’s a perception issue. At first [...]