Strength

By Mike Plunkett   It’s mid-January, and you may feel like a fitness failure. Join the gym, find a yoga class or lose 10 pounds? Not a chance. Go from couch to 5K? Still on the couch. Achieve that feeling of euphoria your friends say they get after SoulCycle? It’s still Greek to you. Instead

One of the most surprising heroes of World War II was a pint-sized shepherd nicknamed The Clown—and his fitness wisdom can change your life. By: Christopher McDougall If you think heroism is an accident, you don’t know the Clown. That was one of George Psychoundakis’ code names. Another was the Changeling, after those magical trolls

Exactly what alcohol does to athletic performance By: Devon Jackson If you exercise, chances are you also drink. I know this because according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine, people tend to drink more alcohol on the days they\’ve exercised. Especially beer. It could be because we reward ourselves with a post-run brewski, or

y Eric Cressey At Cressey Sports Performance, whenever we\’re training a new staff member to write strength and conditioning programs, I always heavily emphasize the following point: If you\’re going to put an exercise in a program, you need to be able to quickly and easily justify its inclusion. Without a doubt, exercise selection is

BY TRAVIS JEWETT, DC     I am a self-described kettlebell nerd. One of the ongoing jokes when I teach seminars is if you come to me with an orthopedic issue, I will tell you to do TGU’s. There is truth behind every joke however. Why I continuously return to the TGU when evaluating an

The Crucial Link Between Dehydration And Osteoporosis By Vivian Goldschmidt, MA It could be the perfect storm. I’m referring to the seldom-mentioned link between dehydration and stress that can hurt your health and your bones. Surprising Study Results A study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that dehydration or hypohydration by -2.5% and

By Doug Du Pont For as long as I’ve been a trainer, people have been doing a lot of core exercises in the gym. In fact a search on the web will give you innumerable articles, videos, and web sites devoted to core workouts. When I first started training, people did old-fashioned sit ups and

Travel is one of the hardest times to eat healthy. Your schedule is thrown off and it seems like the food options around you are all fat, salt and sugar. The good news is that better options are available in ways they never have been before. Here are my suggestions for how to keep from

By Amy Gallo Everyone aspires to have purpose or meaning in their career but how do you actually do that? What practical steps can you take today or this month to make sure you’re not just toiling away at your desk but you’re doing something you genuinely care about? What the Experts Say Unfortunately, most