Landmine training and the countless exercises you can perform are beneficial, badass, and empowering, and can be a key component in your training arsenal. Are you unfamiliar with landmine exercises? They involve…
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5 Deadlifts That Don’t Start From The Floor
Countless people have been led to believe that their deadlift doesn’t “count” unless the starting position is from the floor. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Unfortunately, people of all backgrounds,…
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Get Stronger Legs With These 5 Landmine Exercises
Landmine training is an extremely underrated method of training. Landmine training will help you get stronger, build muscle (if this is a goal), and improve your athleticism/movement. Landmine training is very user…
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Landmine Oblique Strengthening Exercise. Humble Yourself Quickly!
This challenging landmine exercise improves lumbo-pelvic stability, and shoulder and scapular controlled mobility. This exercise is very anti-rotational in nature and is SO much tougher than it looks! Coaching Tips: Rest…
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Strong Quads With Reverse Nordic Curls. How To Regress And Progress The Exercise
Reverse Nordic Curls strengthen the quadriceps, improve knee mobility, and lumbo-pelvic stability. They require minimal equipment so they can be done anywhere, any time. Below I am sharing 9 different variations you…
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5 Innovative Exercises For Stronger Quadriceps
This week I’m sharing 5 innovative exercises for strengthening the quadriceps. #1) Landmine Step-Ups + Band Resistance This exercise strengthens the quadriceps, glutes, and hamstrings, the muscles in the lower leg and…
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Torch Your Obliques With This Exercise
This deceptively challenging exercise improves lumbo-pelvic stability, shoulder and scapular controlled mobility, and to some extent, upper body strength. Not rotating will pose a HUGE challenge, and your obliques will likely be…
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Humble Yourself With This Challenging Bird Dog
This incredibly humbling exercise combines an isometric contralateral bird dog, and landmine single arm row. I’m guessing most people have not tried this bird dog variation before! Coaching Tips: Set…
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Strengthen Your Posterior Chain With These 3 Landmine Exercises
Do you want to strengthen your hamstrings and glutes but don’t know where to start? Have you been performing countless reps of isolation exercises and aren’t experiencing results? Or perhaps you are bored…
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5 Innovative Exercises For Improving Your Push-Ups
To celebrate the one year anniversary of when I released The Ultimate Push-Up Program (it’s actually a little over a year), here are 5 innovative exercises for improving your push-ups. These exercises can…
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Stronger Quads With These 5 Reverse Nordic Curls
Reverse Nordic Curls are a very underrated exercise for strengthening the quads, particularly eccentrically. To be very clear, you should be proficient at performing the bodyweight only variation before you add any…
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5 Pressing Exercises You Might Not Have Tried
This week I am sharing 5 awesome pressing exercises you might not have tried before. These exercises also strengthen the core muscles, and improve shoulder and scapular controlled mobility. #1) Tall Kneeling…
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5 Awesome “Unstable” Surface Exercises
Unstable surface training has garnered a terrible reputation, and in most cases it’s warranted. A lot of people do not understand how to effectively implement unstable surface training. The end result is…
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Improve Your Pull-Ups With These 6 Hollow Body Hold Variations
I talk about this all the time, when you are performing pull-ups, lumbo-pelvic stability, and being able to generate the requisite levels of tension around your spine, hips, and also lower body,…
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5 Exercises That Develop Eccentric Strength In The Hamstrings
This week I shared 5 exercises that develop eccentric strength in the hamstrings. While many of these exercises also develop concentric strength, all of these exercises are especially beneficial as they really…
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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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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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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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50 Of My Random Thoughts About Training
This was originally a Facebook post, but because I think the information is extremely relevant and helpful, and because the feedback has been so positive, I decided to turn the post into…