I’ve always been really good at helping people get strong. I’ve helped nearly all of my male training partners over the years deadlift over 405 lbs, and most of them weighed around 180 lbs. Several have deadlifted over 525 lbs.…

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If you’ve trained at commercial gyms for a large part of your life like I have, you might assume that all trainers are a bunch of dimwits. However, this is actually not the case. Since breaking into the Strength &…

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I have noticed a remarkable trend in the fitness industry over the past several years. The strength coaches tend to be extremely innovative in terms of creating better systems for training many people at once, but the personal trainers tend…

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A couple of months ago I was training my client Katie Coles at a nearby training facility. Normally I trained her out of my garage but every once in a while we’d venture out. This particular facility was completely empty…

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1. Self-Myofascial Release in the form of foam rolling and targeted trigger point therapy is a critical component to performing and feeling better. Good tissue quality lays a foundation for good motor patterns. Thanks to Mark Verstegen for bringing foam…

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Some of you may have seen this before; it’s a blog put together by my friend Nick Tumminello. I thought it was very inciteful so I asked him if I could repost it on my blog. Here it is: -…

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Professors from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs that identified five skills that separate the blue-sky innovators from the rest. Here are the…

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Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! I’d like to take the time to list some things that I’m thankful for in the Strength & Conditioning Industry: 1) Sites that allow me to get smarter such as TMuscle.Com, StrengthCoach.Com, and Elitefts.Com 2) Authors who…

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