By Meghan Callaway And Matthew Ibrahim Strong glutes can really help improve your overall performance, and can potentially make your body more resilient to certain injuries and issues. In short, no matter…
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5 Resistance Band Exercises For The Lower Body
This week I shared five lower body exercises you can do using a resistance band. Without further ado, here are the five exercises I shared this week: #1) Band Resisted Staggered Stance…
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Quick Tip To Clean Up Your Lunges: ’’Train Track’’ Vs ‘’Tightrope’’ Analogy
When many people perform lunges (I’ll use the reverse lunge as a example), they make the mistake of lunging back and placing the foot of their non-working leg so it is directly…
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Question: How Do I Anchor My Feet During Bosu GHR’s?
Several days back, I shared this awesome exercise. This IS a very useful way you can use a Bosu. The Bosu serves as a perfect anchor for doing glute hamstring raises. Glute…
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Use A Bosu To Build Your Backside?
It’s pretty widely known that many people totally misuse Bosu’s and other unstable devices. I’ve written about this a lot (article 1, article 2). But that is not the point of my…
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Excelling At Single Leg Deadlifts: What You Need To Know
Single leg deadlifts are one of my favorite lower body exercises. This unilateral hip hinging exercise strengthens the posterior chain muscles, and improves balance. Unfortunately, very few people execute this movement correctly…
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11 Variations Of Fundamental Movements You Can Do Using A NT Loop
It is no secret that most solid training programs incorporate all of the fundamental movements. These movements include squatting, hinging, lunging, horizontal and vertical pulling, and horizontal and vertical pushing. You can…
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5 Cable Machine Exercises You Likely Haven’t Tried Before
The cable machine is an extremely versatile piece of equipment, and allows you to target the full body. The great news is that if you don’t have access to a cable machine,…
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5 Single Leg Exercises You Might Not Have Tried Before
While squats, deadlifts, and hip thrusts seem to be getting most of the hype, single leg exercises are extremely beneficial, and should be an integral part of your training program. This week…
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Make The Most Of Your Workouts: 5 Of My Go-To “Filler” Exercises
Let’s face it, most people do not have an abundance of time or energy to spend working out. Life can be pretty busy, exhausting, and unpredictable. My time is valuable, so I…
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6 Innovative & Challenging Bear Crawl Variations You Likely Haven’t Seen Before
This week I’m doing a feature on exercises you can do in a bear crawl position. I’m guessing you likely haven’t seen or tried most of these before. While some of the exercises…
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A Smart Way Of Achieving “Muscle Confusion”
Many people think they need to constantly switch up their workouts and/or exercises to ‘’shock their body.’’ As I’ve stated on countless occasions, one of many basic ways you can achieve variety…
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8 Badass Bird Dogs You Likely Haven’t Seen Or Tried Before
This week, I shared 8 badass bird dog variations you likely haven’t seen or tried before. Guess what…none of them are easy. That being said, if you are performing regular bird dogs…
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5 Of My Top Bottoms-Up Kettlebell Exercises
This week I shared five of my favorite bottoms-up kettlebell variations. Bottoms-up kettlebell exercises are great for developing shoulder and scapular controlled mobility (and stability if both remain in a fixed position), and…
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5 Intelligent Strategies For Achieving “Muscle Confusion”
Countless people make the mistake of constantly switching up their training program or jumping from new exercise to new exercise because they “crave variety” or “get bored easily.” In my 15+ years…
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5 Hinging Variations That Don’t Involve Starting From The Ground
Let me cut to the chase right away. There is no written rule that you must deadlift from the ground. An abundance of people have been led to believe that their deadlift…
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5 Landmine Exercises You Might Not Have Tried Before
I absolutely love programming landmine variations into my own training, and into the training programs of many people I work with. Some of the benefits of landmine exercise include: #1) Landmine exercises…
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5 Brutally Challenging Resistance Band Exercises You Can Do
Many people assume that you need a lot of equipment to train in a way that is effective, challenging, and entertaining. In a lot of instances, this is anything but true. Let’s…
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Unstable Surface Training And The Lower Body?
When it comes to training the lower body I am generally not an advocate of programming exercises that involve standing on an unstable surface, thus the question mark in the title. As…
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How I Program My Own Training
For quite some time, I’ve had many people ask me how I program my own training. While I know exactly what I want to accomplish, and how I want my body and…