Foam rolling or mashing with a lacrosse ball before training isn’t lengthening your muscles or breaking up adhesions. Yet, chances are you, your friends or…
Do you remember the first time someone cue’ed you to stay tight? It’s a common expression in weightlifting and CrossFit but unfortunately, most novice (and…
When it comes to core training, way too much emphasis is placed on working the abdominals and and not nearly enough on the back, pelvic…
At 4 feet 11 inches, Alyssa Ritchey’s intimidation factor is low. She walks out onto the platform and grips the loaded barbell, head down as…
It happens. The beginner gains slow to a crawl (what? No more 20 pound strict press PRs?!) and you hit a wall. Maybe you aren’t…
Watch any top lifter and one of the first things that jumps out is their speed. It’s the reason they’re able to lift heavy weights…
Weightlifter CJ Cummings has been poked and prodded, hooked up to electrodes and high speed cameras monitoring every kind of human performance indicator one can…
Do you need a coach? With more and more people joining the world of weightlifting, CrossFit, powerlifting and Strongman, it’s a natural question. How important…
The snatch and clean can be uniquely frustrating lifts. The combination of speed, patience, explosiveness, technique, mental toughness, strength and agility is one that leaves…
In a world of increasingly popular functional fitness, bodybuilding has gotten a bad rep. In CrossFit, people think they know how to train harder and…
