Chances are you've been doing pushups since the Presidential Physical Fitness Test challenged your mettle back in elementary school. But have you been butchering them? Do you know how to effectively increase your max reps? It turns out there's a lot ...
Improve Your Pullups: A Simple, Effective Training Plan
Pullups are the premier test of upper body and relative strength, but most people struggle to eke out even a few reps. The reason isn’t just weakness. Most people who are bad at pullups have either poor shoulder and upper back mobility, are ...
Mobility Drills: Training for Hip and Back Health to Keep Pain at Bay
Here’s a bright and shiny newsflash for you: there’s an 80% chance that you’re going to experience back pain at some point in your life. There’s a 50% chance you'll feel that pain within the next year. It’s the number one pain complaint every year ...
Building Muscle Mass: How to Convert Heavy Fall Foods Into Strength
Summer is ending, and fall is creeping in on us with its usual guarantees: shorter days and calorie-dense foods. With stick-to-your-ribs family dinners, fall festivals, and holiday parties coming one after another, calorie intake typically skyrockets ...
Kettlebell Carries That Test and Build Strength and Endurance
Picking up something heavy and walking with it is a very human thing to do. With our relatively short torsos and long limbs, it’s what we’re built to do. So it’s not a shocker that carrying shit is one of the most effective ways to train the human ...
Explosive Exercise: Build Power and Endurance at the Same Time
The explosive exercise training method comes from the Russians: Yuri Verkhoshansky, to be specific. (I know, I know, but the bastards know how to train.) It's a form of interval training that improves the aerobic abilities of your fast-twitch muscles ...
Add Core Training to Your Rucking Routine for Elk Hunting Prep
September is so close you can almost hear the bugling of a bull elk in the distance. If all goes to plan, you’ll be hiking that big boy out of the mountains in quarters. You’ve been rucking to prepare, but adding some simple core training will have ...
Improve Run Times: This 2-Step Training Program Will Make You Faster
Whether you have a PT test coming up, are prepping for a selection course, or just burning up shoe leather for your own satisfaction, if you want to run faster, there are two performance areas where you should focus your training: heart rate and ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Kettlebell Exercises
First, we broke down the granddaddy kettlebell exercise: the swing. But that was just the beginning. These four killer kettlebell moves that anyone can do — the goblet squat, the clean, the press, and the Turkish get-up — will take your kettlebell ...
Master of Swings: A Beginner’s Guide to Kettlebells
You can judge a piece of training equipment by how many problems it can solve and how much space it takes up. Kettlebells crush this assessment nearly every time because they meet multiple training ends — mobility, strength, power, conditioning — ...
Simple Assessments To Test Your Endurance
Mobility, power, and strength are all important. But without endurance to sustain them, they aren’t as useful. Endurance is the product of one main factor: an efficient aerobic system. Without an aerobic system that’s doing its job, you’re bound to ...
Strength and Power Assessments: Simple Tests to Gauge Your Levels
Athleticism is the foundation of a high-performing, resilient body and life. Strength and power construct the floor and walls of that foundation. If you want longevity, as well as access to all that your body is capable of, you need solid levels of ...
Simple Assessments To Test Your Mobility
The best way to get to point B is to actually know where point A is. If you don’t know where you currently stand, how could you ever know where you are relative to your destination? Easy answer — you can’t, homes. Fitness is like navigation. ...
How To Get Back Into Running After Time Off
The mood hits and you want to run. There’s a race your friends are doing that you want to sign up for. Or maybe you just want to get back into shape. Problem is, it’s been a while since you and your sneakers took a lap around the block. You could ...
4 Ways To Get Back in the Gym and Stay Motivated
“I was doing so well!” That’s the anthem of so many who have fallen off the training wagon. We hear it every week in consultations with new clients at my gym. Elite marathon runners, former SOF guys, college athletes — even these normally dialed-in ...
Eustress Training: Keep Your Head and Kick More Ass
Would you rather feel overwhelmed by circumstances or challenged but in control? How about being able to kick more ass in the gym without destroying your body? With simple, effective workouts that build mental skills, you can train yourself to feel ...
Archery Exercises That Will Bulletproof Your Bow Draw
It takes a metric crap-ton of reps to be a proficient archer, let alone a good one. There’s so much to work on — drawing, anchoring, finding your sight picture, not getting target panic, and the list goes on. But going from zero to dozens of bow ...