Posts Tagged ‘strength training’
Slow Down for Success!
Unless you’re sprinting, speed-roping or racing, slow down, buddy. You’re likely to get hurt. When it comes to form, a rule of thumb I’d like you to follow is GO SLOW. Here’s why: You can’t fake it…with form that is. Your body knows that when you speed up an exercise it’s likely because you haven’t…
Read MoreWOW! Week of 5/26/14: Mom Left Us in Charge!
The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…
Read MoreWOW! Week of 5/19/14: We Want You to FAIL?!
The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…
Read More5/5/14 WOW – Big 5 for 10
The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…
Read More4/28/14 WOW – Crisscross Ladder, Part Deux
The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…
Read More4/14/14 WOW – Crisscross Ladder
The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…
Read MorePerformance Fitness Client Spotlight: Meet The Sterns
Our latest client spotlight features one of our Performance Fitness couples, Joe and Rachel Stern. The Sterns are two of my favorite people (OK, all of our clients are my favorites), probably because they give me coffee whenever I train them, or maybe it’s because we all graduated high school the same year (not telling…
Read More1/22/14 Snow Day Workout
Warm-up 10 Spiders 10 Pumps Workout – 3 to 5 rounds of the following: 10 Inverted Rows with a bed sheet 10 Decline Push-ups (or other challenging variation for you) :30 Hollow Hold 10 Tricep Dips Post rounds and time to comments.
Read MoreMoving Heavy Stuff – The Bodyweight Edition
In a previous post about strength training I whittled down the basic human movements to 7: Squat Lunge Push Pull Bend Twist Gait Then there were the FIVE basic compound exercises: Squat Pull-up Push-up Deadlift Carries Some of the Basic Five have weighted variations: Front or back squat Rows Bench press Conventional Deadlifts Weighted carries…
Read MoreRevisiting the squat
Below is a bit of an edit (with pictures added!) of a post that I wrote two years ago. Since the original posting I’ve developed much more love for the squat. I have a love/hate relationship with squats. I struggled with squats during a good part of my fitness career. The Hate Anatomy (short torso,…
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