Blogs

With the release of the new The Supplement-Goals Reference Guide, I was fortunate to grab Sol Orwell, one of the founding members of Examine.com to do a quick interview. If you missed the posts from the last two days, you can check them out here: The Best Supplement Resource Ever The Truth About BCAAs: Do […]

As you may have noticed from yesterday’s post (See: The Best Supplement Resource Ever), I’m pretty excited about the new Supplement-Goals Reference Guide from the guys at Examine.com. Save $10 on the best supplement resource ever >> The Supplement-Goals Reference Guide << Today the Examine.com team put together a quick fact sheet on a supplement […]

One of the questions I get the most is “What supplement should I take for…*INSERT TRAINING GOAL HERE*?” As a preface, and in the interest of full disclosure, I’m a supplement guy. I think the right supplements, if used properly, can have a profound impact on health and performance. In other words, they can help […]

Last week was a busy week as I had a fairly full schedule of manual therapy clients on top of my coaching responsibilities. It’s been a fun couple of weeks as I’ve had a few pro baseball pitchers and a former (and possibly future, depending on whether or not he’s ready to hang up the […]

My new DVD set Optimizing Movement was released several months ago and I continue to get outstanding feedback from a wide range of professionals throughout the training and rehabilitation spectrum. Today I wanted to share a review that Kevin Miller, Fitness Coach for the Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer Team, recently sent me. This is a […]

Being a strength coach and a manual therapist has given me a different perspective on how important it truly is to assess athletes for structural and functional limitations and address them before they become serious injuries and surgeries. Exercises that revolve around optimizing breathing patterns have become a big piece of that equation for me […]

When I first started learning about breathing, it was within the context of “chest breathing is bad, belly breathing is good.” The short explanation for this thought process is that belly breathing is driven by the diaphragm, whereas chest breathing is driven by “accessory” respiration muscles and ultimately leads to dysfunction and/or pain. This explanation […]

Hopefully you were able to grab a copy of Eric Cressey’s The High Performance Handbook already and grab all of the great bonuses Eric offered the first day. After reading through the book, I asked Eric if he’d write a post discussing the importance of individualization, which he humbly agreed to. This is a cool […]

In anticipation of the release of his new training system The High Performance Handbook, Eric Cressey released three great videos last week that I hope you had an opportunity to check out. In addition to watching the videos, I spent the last week digging through the High Performance Handbook and am really impressed with the […]

Cressey appreciation week continues with another short video from Eric walking through some of the finer points of an extremely important exercise that he knows a thing or two about. Eric lifting…one hundred, MILLION, pounds. Check out the video here >> Individualizing The Deadlift While Eric may be the Michael Phelps of deadlifting, I saw […]