Posts in "Articles"

Chris Holder: Coaching with Confidence to Share Knowledge and Experience

Chris Holder reflects on 20 years of collegiate strength coaching experience and provides wisdom and guidance regarding knowledge, communication and buildi...

Mark Cheng: Breathing as Fundamental Movement

Mark Cheng gives you the best language to explain the importance of breathing to your clients and why it must serve as a starting point for correctives.

Gray Cook: Movement Habits and Repatterning

Gray Cook advises you to look for lifestyle problems before you program correctives for your clients. If you’re trying to repattern without looking at habits and posture, you’re not...

Brian Friedman: Gain Awesome Kettlebell Technique with Yoga

Brian Friedman discusses correct alignment and proper movement patterns in exercise and explores the common ground (and symbiosis) between kettlebell technique and yoga practice.

Gray Cook: Movement Minimums

Gray Cook explains how managing movement minimums gets to the root of movement problems and gets your clients closer to their goals.

Growing a fitness business, with Thom Plummer

The Fitness Business: Let’s Make a Good Living

Your timing to get into the fitness business could not be better. In the 40-some years of modern fitness, there’s never been a better time to be a fitness professional. The small trai...

Joel Jamieson: How to Write a World-Class Conditioning Program in 15 Minutes or Less

Joel Jamieson always hears the same refrain from fitness professionals: “When it comes to a conditioning program, I struggle to put all the pieces together.” The tips in this articl...

Dan John: Strength Coaching Athletes

Training wisdom from Dan John: strength coaching athletes isn't always about the weight room. Sometimes you have to get inside their heads.

Sophia Drysdale training the pregnant client

Sophia McDermott Drysdale: Training Pregnant Clients — Beneficial Exercises

Concluding this popular series about understanding the physiological changes that are underway during pregnancy, this article covers go-to exercises that both protect and promote the he...

Eric Beard: Quick Breathing Assessment

Eric Beard demonstrates a breathing assessment to see if the diaphragm is doing its job. It’s quick, it’s easy and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be doing it before programming...

Before We Go, Dan John

Dan John: Four Ways to Fire Up Work Capacity

by Dan John Work capacity is that ability to perform work, which determines your level of fitness that will, in turn, determine your level of preparedness. It’s an issue for people i...