Are you ready for a workout and nutrition program that is GUARUNTEED to reshape your mind, body and spirit for incredible strength all around? WE ARE BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS! One of the main culprits to not making progress is diving head first into a murderous training program and rigid eating style. […]
The Minimal Effective Dose: Hardstyle Training in Minutes a Day
Have you ever had one of those moments when you looked over your schedule, and realized that you were truly crunched for time to exercise? Busy lives filled with work responsibilities (bills bills gotta pay the bills!) taking care of our families and loved ones, let alone having enough time to get to the gym […]
The Price We Pay for Staying “Healthy”: Where You Invest Your Time and Money Matters
I was utterly baffled by what I was listening to in the middle of a conversation about fitness, strength training and eating healthy, but my being baffled quickly shifted into the realization that we here in America struggle with a very serious problem plaguing our society more so each day. I’m not here to talk […]
Unbreakable
I was sitting outside the new apartment last night, looking around the scenery of this new neighborhood in my old home town. The day had been one of my harder days, days when I felt so out of my wits that I couldn’t think straight, or perhaps thinking about one thing in particular that has […]
The Kettlebell Kick-Starter: WELCOME TO GREENSBURG PENNSYLVANIA!
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Greater City of GREENSBURG: This blog post is dedicated to YOU! You may have heard of a certain red-headed kettlebell instructor making her way back home for all things strength, endurance, and obviously more awesome via kettlebell training. I AM BACK IN THE AREA! I now operate out of Virtus […]
Welcome to the Twister: Hang Training, Grip Strength, and a Drill You Need for Upper Body Dominance
Since we are on the subject this week on obstacles, we are going to be looking at a specific obstacle that gave me a ton of heck at the Ohio Spartan Beast Race. Welcome to the Twister! Ok ok ok! For those of you in the calisthenics realm of things, practicing this kind of […]
Press on to Superhuman Strength: Powerful Pressing is HERE!
There is a a saying in our lifting community, and that saying is this: “strength has a greater purpose.” I believe without a shadow of a doubt that the very purpose strength has, beyond lifting heavy things above our heads, is a purpose founded upon loving our neighbors as ourselves. The very great purpose strength has is love, […]
Intro to Muscular Endurance Training (well. . .sort of).
WELCOME TO 2017! Let’s get this party started, shall we? The name of the game today is muscular endurance, well. . .sort of. Generally speaking, muscular endurance is “the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time.” This particular skill is as important to […]
The Loaded Carry: Kettlebell Training for Endurance Drills
Coach: I need you to grab these two logs and follow me into the woods. Me: Where are we going ? How heavy are these logs? Coach: That doesn’t matter. None of that matters. Just follow me! Welcome to Duff Park, located about half an hour from the city of Pittsburgh. I found myself at […]
Pressing Through Difficulty
Yesterday I had a discussion with one of my friends in the obstacle racing community. She had told me that she entered into the sport to deal with a very serious problems stemming from her suffering with PTSD. While I do not know the entire details of the traumatic events that lead to such suffering, […]