Category: Mobility & Recovery
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How (And Why) To Crawl For 10 Minutes Straight
“I said look you need to crawl before you ball”– Kanye WestEvery exercise has a standard to accomplish before you can rightfully say you’ve gone from “suck” to “entry level good.” For the deadlift it’s double bodyweight. For the one-arm press it’s half your bodyweight. And for crawling it’s moving your bodyweight non-stop for 10…
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How (And Why) To Train Around An Injury
There are about a million reasons – I’ll give you just a chosen few. Think back to a time in your life when your car got a scratch on it, so you decided to stop driving it, keep it parked in the garage, and never drive it again, preferring instead to let it rust out and fall apart. Or perhaps to a time when your favorite pants got…
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How to become a T-1000 (A review of Flexible Steel)
In the beginning… I remember when I was just getting started with kettlebell training, I did what any American would do: lifted indiscriminately with as many exercises as I could fit into a session and with no real plan in mind. It never would have occurred to me to do the same thing the same way for…
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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 recovery for faster gains
“It doesn’t matter how much work you can do – it matters how much work you can recover from.”– Geoff Neupert Read the above line again. Then again. Then ask yourself: Am I recovering properly after my training? Or maybe even, Do I KNOW how to recover properly after my training? Most of us aren’t recovering…