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The Number One Fat Loss Mistake

August 1, 2014 by Nick Leave a Comment

The Number One Fat Loss Mistake

I was looking back through my old articles yesterday, and a few things caught my attention:   1.) My writing has improved (at least in my opinion), and I’ve gone from sounding illiterate to slightly less illiterate.   2.)  I said some really dumb things in previous blog posts (thank God for science and research). […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: abs, career, family, Fat Loss, friends, health, Mistakes, motivation, motives, six pack

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

July 23, 2014 by Nick Leave a Comment

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

The other day I was talking with an athlete who was extremely frustrated with the results he had been getting in his training.   His squat hadn’t budged in two months, his deadlift had improved by 10 lbs. at best, and his bench had actually REGRESSED to a previously set PR.   He asked me to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: adaption, change, Individualization, muscle, Strength, training, variation

Read Up on Pain Science

July 21, 2014 by Nick Leave a Comment

Read Up on Pain Science

I recently bought a book called A Guide to BETTER MOVEMENT by Todd Hargrove.   The book is about movement (Ha, big shocker there), the nervous system’s effect on movement (we’re starting to realize that the brain has much more of an impact on force production, mobility restrictions, stiffness, etc. than previously thought), and strategies […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: a guide to better movement, Function, Mobility, Movement, pain, Performance, todd hardgrove

How to Use a Cookie-Cutter Program

July 14, 2014 by Nick Leave a Comment

How to Use a Cookie-Cutter Program

  If you’ve ever picked up a fitness magazine,  you’ve probably come across a training plan used by some well-known and elite level athlete. Naturally, our first instinct is to use it. After all, if a top level athlete used the program – and got to where he/she is because of it (not always the […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: 5/3/1, cookie-cutter program, principles, Programming, Progress, Sheiko, Strength, The Cube, The Juggernaut Method, training

My Top 6 Least Favorite Exercises

June 4, 2014 by Nick Leave a Comment

My Top 6 Least Favorite Exercises

Do you guys have an exercise that you just don’t like? I know I do – several of them actually – and I figured I’d outline my top six least favorite exercises down below. I’m not saying that these exercises are bad, that they cause cancer, or that they should be totally eliminated from your training […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: behindtheneckpress, bosuball, curls, disdain, exercises, pullups, skullcrushers, Squats, training, uprightrows

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