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The Importance of Mobility Training

Mobility training is crucial for functional health. In the gym, mobility training will lead you to have better form, less risk of injury, and in turn move more weight. Outside of the gym, mobility training ...
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Dealing with a Failed Lift

It happens to everyone at some point…failing a lift. It sucks when it happens but it is not the end of the world. You just have to know how to handle it.
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Progressive Overload: A Steady Track to Muscle Growth

How do you know if you’re getting stronger in the gym? Most of us are aware that over time, we have to increase our weight and/or reps, but how do we know how much weight ...
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Grip Strength

Hands…have you ever stopped to think about how weird they really are? Just a pair of bony appendages on the end of our arms that branch out into smaller bony appendages that bend around on ...
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Dryland Exercises to Level-Up Your Swimming

You think success in the pool only comes from training in the water? Think again! Here are some exercises you should be factoring into your dryland workouts if you want to see improvements in your ...
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Should You Wear Gloves When WOrking Out?

There have been tons of studies done to research the effects of wearing gloves on single-arm grip strength, leg lifting, and hand grip strength.
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The Skill Component of Strength

I’m going to make a very strange statement and that is the following: “Strength is not just being strong.”
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Prestige Worldwide

Training for my first race (PART 3) “Research and Development, putting in the man hours to study the science of what you need.” -Dale
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Visualizing Other Measures of Strength Progress

Strength development is easy to see in lifting…you’re able to do more weight for the same number of reps or you are able to do the same weight but for more reps. However there is ...
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How to Ask Someone for a Spot

We’ve all been there and it is super awkward… asking for help, in this case asking for a spot! I will acknowledge that there may be a certain level of anxiety in this situation. In ...
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Running Up That Hill

Training For My First Race (Part 2) One night my wife said to me, “I want to do a race. Not just any race, the Disney race.” I looked at her and said, “Sure, why ...
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Visualization for Lifting

If you were to ask anybody on the planet what percentage of a sport is physical and what percentage of it is mental, I guarantee you that literally no one will say “It’s 100% physical.” ...
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