Author: Aleks Salkin
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How to succeed with a personal trainer
It’s more straight-forward than you might think. There are a few simple rules that will help you succeed with a personal trainer and exceed your goals. They are: 1) Hire value, NOT bargain.– A value is something that enriches your life. A bargain is something that keeps money in your pocket. While the two aren’t *necessarily* mutually exclusive, more often than…
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How To Unlock Your Martial Power
(This article originally appeared on practicalhungkyun.com) For the martial artist looking to improve his craft, there are a few bare essentials you need – apart from your actual martial arts practice – that will help propel you toward and beyond your goals. A healthy level of strength and a good program for all-over conditioning.The more…
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I Wanna Rock!
(This post originally appeared on originalstrength.net) “I wanna rock! ROCK!”“I want! To! Rock! ROCK!”Twisted Sister, “I wanna rock” In keeping with my tradition of starting my articles on Original Strength resets with a lyric from some of my favorite hard rock songs from decades past (and with resets with names like rocking and rolling, how can…
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Improve Your back flexibility with one move
The back bridge: the ultimate in flexible strength and youthful movement I love bridges. And not Bridges-of-Madison-County bridges, but actual back bridges. It’s a great exercise, and if you don’t like it you’re wrong. Why are bridges so badass? Well, there’s roughly a metric shit ton of reasons, so I’ll just list a few. 1) Flexible strength at its best. – Quite often our strength…
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Improve your Cardio with 2 body weight drills
Wanna have more wind? More get-up-and-go? Yeah, you definitely do! No matter what your physical goals may be, you would do well to increase your work capacity. Increased work capacity means the ability to handle more work (DUH!) as well as your ability to recover from said work. Increased work capacity means you can take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’ –…