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• July 25, 2012

  Keep Yourself Honest with an Interval Timer

  Steady state aerobic exercise is pretty low on my list of efficient exercise, and outside of endurance athletes, it’s not that important for most people.  Big results come from appropriate dietary choices, focusing on movement quality, strength training, and interval training.  Eat your steak and spinach, up your squat, run some sprints, and you should…

• July 24, 2012

  Anterior Loaded Squat to Box

  Every Monday, in commercial gyms across the country, enthusiastic lifters gather to bench press.  Bench Press Monday is an unofficial national holiday, an ode to our pec-centric nature.  In an act of civil disobedience, I’ve almost always gone out of my way to not bench on Mondays.  It actually makes getting around the gym easier;…

• July 23, 2012

  All About Intensity

  I have to admit something difficult to you: I’ve been slacking in my training.  Neglecting overall strength exercises, a decrease in volume, slacking on my conditioning; The things that everyone struggles with on occasion.  Fortunately, I’ve realized this, and am making some changes to get my ass back in gear. These changes are pretty simple,…

• July 19, 2012

  10 Second Body

  When I was a but a wee-lad, after the great Y2K tragedies, my brother and I discovered something amazing.  It was The Fast and The Furious, and it was one of the greatest movies of our childhoods.  We would watch that movie on rainy days, multiple times, with subtitles on to help memorize the words. …

• July 17, 2012

  What We Can Learn From CrossFit

  The 2012 CrossFit games were this weekend, and the production and publicity teams did a great job of blowing up my little corner of the interwebz. Live video streamed from the ESPN3 and the CrossFit Games websites, nearly every minute of action was posted on the CrossFitHQ YouTube channel, and I received a number of…