CrossFit has shed more light onto the barbell world than everything else prior combined. CrossFit has shown the world the barbell isn’t some monster that will make women masculine and turn the average dad into the Incredible Hulk (I wish). The back squat is now an everyday phrase being coined as the most functional movement […]
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Ryan Nosak knows what it’s like to be in the trenches of the strength and conditioning world. On this podcast, he’s open about what’s great about the industry – and about what’s hard. He doesn’t hold anything back, and he tells us what it takes to be successful in this amazing world of strength coaching.
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By now we have all heard the terms community and culture so many times that it’s kind of old news. But why are those terms important? The new popularity of CrossFit and the barbell sports, along with the magic of the Internet, has spread these terms around the world and back. The main reason CrossFit
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Dr. Pat Davidson is an exercise physiologist, a trainer of trainers, an author, a former Strongman competitor, and an expert at getting you jacked. I had never talked with him before, but he came highly recommended as a podcast guest. Now I can see why. I was blown away and took pages of notes. His
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In my recent podcast interview with Travis Mash he often brought up the topic of patellar tendinitis in one of his weightlifting clients. Tendinopathies (aka tendinitis or tendinosis), in and around the patella (kneecap) and other regions of the body (i.e. Achilles tendon, rotator cuff, elbows), are major issues that plague a lot of athletes.
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Navigating through research can be intimidating and confusing. Especially if you don’t have a science background. There is a lot that goes into the writing of research that makes it hard to read. There are p values for statistical significance, there are charts and graphs that seem to be in a different language, there are
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