6 Ways to Get Healthy Knees & Reasons They Ache
May 23, 2020 15:41Healthy knees are capable knees. The capability of knees to tolerate loading, the better they are. Loading is: 1) handling multiples of your body weight. Example 1.5x Body weight when walking, s...
Benefits of 1x20 Training
June 13, 2020 17:00Many of us gym goers and athletes are pretty familiar with training to the tune of 3x10 (sets to reps), popularized from body building culture and common in general fitness as it provides a great f...
🔥UNDERSTANDING PAINS VS SORENESS🔥
June 13, 2020 17:24My friend & fellow coach Khyla and I created a piece to help you understand the pains you get vs soreness. Also lastly looking at when to push through and when not too! Check out the video we ...
💡1 SIMPLE, EASY WAY TO RID OF KNEE PAIN TO BE ABLE TO TRAIN💡
July 10, 2020 01:12I'm sure at some point you've gotten ready to do a workout but your knee or hip felt a bit tight or you were uncomfortable as you were still rehabbing. Often times, that can be dealt with so you c...
Your Knees Should Be Able to Come Past Your Toes
February 19, 2021 16:14We’ve all heard the adage “don’t let your knees come past your toes”. Why is that? Well, if your muscles and tendons aren’t strong enough, you could feel pain or at least have a lot of discomfort...
Work Your Tight Muscles
March 19, 2021 02:36In the world of running, commonly the hamstring, hip flexors, quads, calves, and glutes are the bearers of aches and pains. Week 2 of high school track is almost done, and finally some of the “thi...
In Season Strength = Postseason Success
March 24, 2021 14:50Every year, thousands of athletes across the country go hard strength training all off season just to hit the championship series and post season and run out of gas and be “almost good enough”. ...
Healthy Knees Have Strong Quads
May 10, 2021 15:36Inflexible knees suck. Painful knees suck even more. Over the years, I’ve helped many athletes and regular folks improve in their knee ability and have worked to continually grow my knowledge on ...
Making Stretching Great Again
September 02, 2021 11:57Lol. I couldn’t help myself. I just put lol in an email...lol. At any rate, here’s the deal. Even the best intentioned athlete and exerciser forgets an important aspect of health and injury ris...
4 Muscles to Train That You Probably Aren’t
September 04, 2021 13:44You just hit the gym. Of course you did your essentials: you got your squats in, deadlifts, lunges, pull ups, bench press, and abs in. Good job, right? I mean, yea good, but not the most optimal ...
The Power of Eccentrics
May 30, 2022 00:03No, no, not an eccentric personality- though many of them can be quite powerful people, I mean eccentric training. Using eccentric tempos while doing strength training is a key player in building ...
Your "Once in Awhile Lunges" are Disappointing You
June 09, 2022 23:13As the years of coaching add up, I just further see more and more the correlation between: endurance athletes who like to occasionally do 15min of lunges after a workout X endurance athletes who d...
Stop Letting Weak Hips Hurt You
July 26, 2022 19:00Stop Letting Weak Hips Hurt You Today, all before 9am, I had 3 different conversations about 3 different parts of the hips. Maybe you don’t hear this enough: you need stronger hips. Especially i...
Quad Muscles are Like Moms. Hear Me Out..
April 12, 2023 14:02The other night I was at my nephew’s physical therapy appointment and was asking him questions about how he programs my nephew’s rehab. They do A LOT of quad work. Isometrics. Eccentrics. High ...
I know you just want to stretch tightness, but try this..
April 12, 2023 15:22We’ve all been there. A series of heavy workouts and practices adding up over the days and weeks has led to this “tight” feeling in your hamstrings, calves, or maybe your mid back. It’s not exac...