Regressing the Pull-up
Many fear the pull-up bar. And I don’t blame you if you do. Pull-ups are hard. Several NHL first round draft picks haven’t been able to do a single pull-up at the NHL combine, so at least you’re in good…
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A Letter to Young Athletes
Dear young athlete, When opening up a fortune cookie today, I read the little piece of paper that said, “A mentor is someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.” In so many ways, more experience, more opportunities to succeed, fail,…
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Regressing the Push-Up: How to Make Push-Ups Easier
Many have coined the push-up “the king” of upper body exercises. It’s a staple of just about every strength and conditioning program, and one of the most popular exercises in the history of exercise. Hell, when I was 10 years…
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Essentials of Abdominal Training For Sport Part 3: Antilateral Flexion
So, we’ve learned how to resist excessive lumbar extension, and rotation. What’s left? We’ve worked in the sagittal plane and the transverse plane, so that leaves resisting lateral flexion about the frontal plane. Lateral flexion is essentially bending at the…
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Essentials of Abdominal Training For Sport Part 2: Antirotation
In the last article we began to discuss the important role our abdominal muscles play during physical activity, and how this should guide our abdominal training. To summarize, the abdominal muscles are stabilizers, not movers. Their job is to resist…
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What I’ve Learned Installment #2 – The First Half of 2018
There aren’t many things better than coming to a realization that blows your mind, or completely shifts your paradigm. Or coming to understand something that at once seemed so abstract and strange. For me, what’s even cooler is watching that…
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Start With Movement: Building Athletes for the Long-Term
Originally Posted on the Fit 2 Excel Blog on April 6, 2018 All elite athletes have a lot in common. That’s largely because many sports, when it comes down to it are all played on the same foundation of well-rounded athletic development….