A lot of people have the goal of being able to do pistol squats, but don’t know how to achieve this feat. Here are 5 exercises that will help you conquer pistol…
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Stronger Glutes With These 5 Deceptively Tough Exercises
Here are 5 effective and deceptively challenging exercises that will help you strengthen your glutes. #1) Single Leg Isometric Glute Bridge + Single Leg Slides This exercise strengthens the glutes and hamstrings,…
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Mental Health Matters: A Few Of My Mental Health “Training” Strategies
I think it’s safe to say that the past 20+ months has exposed the fact that many people totally neglect their mental health. Mental health is everything! Many people focus on their…
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Innovative Exercise For The Glutes, Grip, And Shoulders
This bang for your buck exercise strengthens the glutes, the muscles in the foot and lower leg, improves shoulder and scapular stability, grip strength, and lumbo-pelvic stability. As you can tell,…
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Awesome Exercise For The Rotator Cuff
This exercise strengthens the rotator cuff. I bet many of you can’t name the four muscles that make up the rotator cuff ;). I’ll give the answer at the bottom of this…
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Innovative Ab Roll-Out + Serratus Strengthener You Need To Try!
This unique exercise provides a big bang for your buck as it strengthens the serratus, improves lumbo-pelvic stability, and shoulder and scapular controlled mobility. Unlike during regular roller serratus slides, there is…
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Are Nordic Curls Too Difficult? Try These!
Nordic curls improve the eccentric strength in the hamstrings. This exercise can be extremely beneficial for athletes, and the general population. However, some people might not be ready to perform the exercise.…
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5 Challenging “Filler” Exercises You Need To Try!
My time is valuable, so I like to maximize every minute I spend training. A lot of the time, instead of remaining totally idle between sets I will incorporate “filler” exercises. As…
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Overcoming One Of My Biggest Fears
A Facebook memory came up yesterday that made me feel a little sentimental, and hungry to present/teach again. Two years ago (time flies), I presented at the Evolve Strength Symposium in…
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One Of The Most Deceptively Challenging Dead Bug Variations
Dead bugs are one of my favourite exercises for improving lumbo-pelvic stability. If you are unfamiliar with this term, think core stability. Here is one of the most deceptively challenging dead bug…
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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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Zombie Push-Up Challenge: Do You Have What It Takes?
Zombie push-ups are a very advanced push-up, and happen to be one of my favourites. They are a great serratus strengthener as well. When it comes to push-ups (and really, anything…
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Push-Up Form: Arrow vs T Body Position
When many people perform regular push-ups (and countless other variations), they allow their elbows to flare out so their body and arms end up looking like a ‘’t.’’ This is not efficient,…
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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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Get Strong To Run: Runners, Check Out These 10 Exercises!
To be very clear, if you want to get better at running, you NEED to run. However… While running definitely offers many benefits, running is not a suitable substitute for strength…
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5 Hip Flexor Strengthening Exercises For Runners/Athletes
Are your hip flexors ‘’tight?’’ Or do they feel this way as they actually need to get stronger? I have ‘’tight’’ in quotations because there are different reasons why your hip flexors…
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Trap Bar Deadlifts: Knee Dominant Vs Hip Dominant
Trap bar deadlifts are one of my favourite exercises. This exercise is often pretty user friendly, and can be done by people of many fitness levels and backgrounds. Here is an awesome…
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5 Of My Go-To Exercises For Bulletproof Shoulders
Here are 5 of my go-to exercises for bulletproof shoulders. If you are an athlete, or anybody really, these exercises will be very beneficial. #1) Prone I-T ‘s This exercise improves shoulder…
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Stronger Serratus, Core, And Better Overhead Mobility With This Exercise
This exercise provides a BIG bang for your buck as it strengthens the serratus, improves lumbo-pelvic stability, and shoulder/scapular controlled mobility. Unlike during regular roller serratus slides, there is a ball roll-out…
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Underrated Glute Bridge Fix
When countless people perform exercises where they are in a supine position, and this includes glute bridge variations, they make this very common compensation which renders the exercises much less effective. …