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This Will Make You Better: Half Kneeling Cook Bar Chop
The Core doesn’t get any respect. Even with a decade-long deluge of “functional training” strategies, most gym goers finished their physical education in the days of the crunch, completing endless reps with a focus on the rectus abdominus and obliques. Otherwise known as: The ABZ! Before we go any further, let’s get one thing straight:…
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A Challenge To Trainers: Go Be A Bro
It was a pairing of two exercises. Wide grip seated rows with a neutral handle and Fat Gripz, and a Half Kneeling Cook Bar Chop. It was a relatively easy training day, and I was playing around with a slower tempo on the row, using it for some variety from the typical marathon of TRX…
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Hiatus: Finding Balance In Your Continuing Education
I took a hiatus from writing last week. Each morning was spent in pajamas, accompanied by a cup of coffee, mostly in silence; and I read. Books, articles, blogs, and everything in between. My focus was on filling up on the best information that I could find. I was drawing back the bowstring. For the better…
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This Will Make You Better: Kneeling Cable Chest Press
If you walk into any big-box chain gym and take a poll on the best chest exercise ever, you’re bound to get one answer. More than anything else, from bros to brokers, you’ll find one thing that seems consistently true. The Bench is the king of chest exercises. That may be true, but that doesn’t…
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Some News from the Clubhouse!
Woah, there’s some impressive things happening at The Enchanted Ninja Clubhouse of Glory and Dreams, and I want to share those with you. When I first read Mark’s article about Creating Culture on The Personal Trainer Development Center, I thought, “Wow, this guy is nuts.” This was confirmed when I met Mark, Brian, and Kyle at Perform Better and realized…
Harold Gibbons | MovementGPS 