We’ve all heard it. The older you get, the less likely you are to hit the performance goals you set out for. We’re constantly told to savor the time spent in our 20’s and 30’s because once we hit 40, it’s “all downhill from there.” What if, rather than simply accepting that aging equates …
How to Optimize Training Around Your Menstrual Cycle
Women have often been misguided or more likely not properly educated on the phases of our menstrual cycle and how they impact training and fueling. Whether you’re an elite athlete or simply a health and wellness enthusiast, it’s important to understand the stages that we go through each month and how they impact performance. …
Best Gear for Strength Training
It can be confusing with all of the accessories and gear on the market to help you build strength. This is particularly true if you’re new to strength training. We’ve pulled together our list of the basics for anyone from the beginner to weekend warrior to elite athlete to help on your fitness journey. …
Top Science-Backed Benefits of Strength Training
Whether you call it strength, resistance, or weight training, If you only do one type of training each week then strength training should be your focus. But what exactly is strength training? The general definition of strength training is any physical movement in which you use your body weight or equipment (think dumbbells or …
How to Balance Training Intensity and Volume
Are Isolation Movements Better for Muscle Growth? | Which Comes First: Strength or Hypertrophy? | Do I Need Rest Days? | Overtraining vs. Overreaching | How to Balance Volume and Intensity | The Power of Autoregulation Periodization in powerlifting training is often underappreciated at best, or completely butchered at worst. On one …
The Power of Autoregulation in Training
Are Isolation Movements Better for Muscle Growth? | Which Comes First: Strength or Hypertrophy? | Do I Need Rest Days? | Overtraining vs. Overreaching | How to Balance Volume and Intensity | The Power of Autoregulation I’m a doctor of physical therapy, elite powerlifter, professional boxer, and co-founder of Hybrid Performance Method. I’m here to answer one basic question: …
The Positive Effects of Resistance Training on Anxiety and Depression
With anxiety and depression among U.S. adults becoming more and more common—anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorder—those who suffer from these disorders are seeking help with managing and alleviating the burden of their symptoms. Most people are aware of the cognitive symptoms of anxiety, like apprehensive and worrisome thoughts and feelings, trouble concentrating, and irritability (or crushing existential dread in my case), but …
8 Training Rules to Pass the Army Combat Fitness Test
Special Ops Tactical Fitness | Patrol Officer Tactical Fitness | Firefighter Tactical Fitness | Pass Your PT Test | Pass the ACFT The new Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, is a total departure from the way military fitness has been measured and tested—and it’s got a lot of people feeling nervous. …
Layne Norton Peak Week: Training & Cardio
MAIN | NUTRITION | SUPP STACK | WATER & SODIUM | TRAINING & CARDIO | POSING | STAGE PRESENCE Diet, water, and sodium might be the make-or-break factors during peak week, but training remains a key yet often misunderstood variable. The video takes most of the myths about managing workouts during peak week and, quite frankly, turns them on their head. Should you keep …
Athlete Profile: Evan Centopani's Training Is Money In The Bank
Athlete Profile: Evan Centopani | Leg Day Training | Big Back Routine | Build an Animal Chest | 15-Minute Arm Blast | Get Bigger on a Budget As a child, Evan Centopani was a big lad, weighing in at more than 120 pounds in the first grade. He was naturally large, but he also grew up in the 1980s, when …
Lauren Sheehan's Insane CrossFit Games Training
Anybody can do CrossFit, but only the truly exceptional make it to the annual CrossFit Games. And make no mistake: Lauren Sheehan (nee Suever) is exceptional. This Swolverine-sponsored athlete is a trauma nurse, a nationally-ranked Olympic weightlifter, a coach, and the owner of her own CrossFit box. What this basically means is Sheehan is busy from sunup ’til dusk, yet she somehow still managed …
Janae Marie Kroc is Always in Training
Number two was thinking I had to give up the things I loved doing to be who I felt I truly was. Sure, there are some changes I want to make, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be part of my life. Just a Woman Who Is Passionate about Strength Training One of my big concerns when I first came out was that I thought […]
What is Olympic Lifting? Meet the Best Training You're Not Doing
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Lifters tend to shy away from the Olympic lifts, the barbell snatch and the clean and jerk, because they look complicated and require a great deal of technique. But in those two challenges lie their biggest benefits. With time and …
A Scientific Approach to Hamstring Training
Your post-workout quad flex may rack up the likes, but you can’t have a set of truly impressive, muscular legs with poor hamstring development. But for most lifters, the hammies tend to be a lagging muscle complex and are dramatically overshadowed by the quads. The end result is an unbalanced appearance to the lower …
Ask the Ageless Lifter: Can I Keep Training After Knee Surgery?
Q: What can I keep doing while I’m recovering from knee surgery? There’s an interesting aspect of human behavior called “the missing tile syndrome.” Basically, when a ceiling tile is missing, we don’t notice the hundreds of intact tiles. Instead, our eye immediately zeros in on that single missing tile. Put another way, we’re …