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Thoughts from the NSCA Connecticut State Clinic
Any day that begins with spinach and blueberries is going to be a good day. I’ve been thinking this for weeks, and it holds true at 6am on Saturdays. Leaving from midtown Manhattan gave me a view of hundreds of early morning joggers and cyclists as I headed to Newtown, Connecticut for the NSCA Connecticut…
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Is The Ice Bucket Challenge Helping ALS Research?
Check out the interwebz, bro. Let me give you a run down of the things I’ve seen in the last week: Ebola. Gaza. Robin Williams. People dumping ice on themselves. One of these things is not like the other. Okay, so we can claim this for any of the four, but let’s agree that we…
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You Can’t Rush Progress
4 Hour Work-Weeks, Speed reading, the most efficient multi-tasking ever; we want all of it, and we want it now. Our uber-efficient, Uber using world wants rapid reinforcement. Unfortunately for this learned behavior, you can’t rush progress. Let’s use Facebook as an example. A month ago I went to my personal page and noticed a prompt to…
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Getting Back On: Why Do You Do It?
Four weeks ago, I crashed my bike. I was riding at Mountain Creep Bike Park in Vernon, NJ, and was practicing out one of their “Progression Drops,” essentially a balance beam for bikes. As I approached the highest board in the set, I thought, “Hmm, I wonder if anyone ever rides off and hits that tree.…
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This Will Make You Better: Cook Squat with Reach
Moving well or moving weight is a balance point of every strength trainee in the world. That balance starts in our warm-up, continues through our work sets, and is part of cooling down, as well. Today, I’m going to share with you a movement exercise that can serve you in all three capacities, whether you’re preparing…
Harold Gibbons | MovementGPS 