I've had a good amount of chit chat with clients over the years about how the workouts look too easy on paper but actually they kick their ass.
Good. That's kinda what I'm going for.
A well written strength &Â conditioning program doesn't always look impressive on paper. There might 3 exercises in ...
Being weak makes everything more expensive. Not financially, physically.
Every task requires some percentage of your available physical capacity. Getting off the floor, carrying groceries, moving a piece of furniture, shoveling snow, picking up your kid, climbing stairs, hiking up a hill…they all h...
Mobility work doesn't need to be another 30 minute workout added to your day.
This is the routine I do pretty much every single night: five movements, one minute each, for two rounds.
10 minutes total.
Sometimes it turns into 15 or 20 minutes because something feels particularly good and I spend ...
If you've ever trained power or speed as its own physical quality, you've probably looked at the workout and thought, "That's it?"
A few jumps. A handful of medicine ball throws. Some short sprints. Long rest periods between sets.
Compared to some workouts you've done, it almost looks like someone...
If your goal is to lose bodyweight, there is one principle that still matters more than anything else:
You need a calorie deficit.
Not keto, paleo, intermittent fasting/time restricted feeding, low carb, low fat, low sugar, etc. etc. etc. You most definitely don't need a cleanse or a metabolism re...
Most people think progressive overload only means adding weight to the bar.
That is one method. A good one, too. But it is far from the only way to make progress.
Over my last few training cycles, both personally and inside Axis Team Training, we've been using percentage based progressions for a l...
Back when I was more into bodybuilding style training, I hated cardio.
Loved lifting. Loved chasing strength numbers. Loved the pump. Loved physique progress. But running or biking or anything of the sorts? I absolutely dreaded it.
I remember having certain days in my training that were almost ent...
Over the last 10+ years coaching, I’ve worked with a lot of different people.
Different goals. Different backgrounds. Different starting points.
And yet the people who truly change their lives tend to have the same patterns.
It’s rarely the most athletic person. Rarely the person with the “perfec...
Most people completely ignore sprinting.
They lift. They do some steady state cardio. Maybe some interval type training here and there. But all out sprinting? Rare or never. That’s no good!Â
Because sprinting trains something most people are actively losing as they age… and most people never reali...
Most training programs live almost entirely in the sagittal plane.
Squat. Hinge. Press. Pull. Lunge. Run forward. Bike forward. None of that is bad. You need those things.
But if your program never asks you to produce, resist, control, or decelerate rotation, it is missing a massive piece of human...
When people talk about getting stronger, the conversation almost always revolves around absolute strength.
“How much can you deadlift?”
“What’s your bench press?”
“What’s your max squat?”
Those numbers matter. Absolute strength is a valuable quality.
But there’s another type of strength that often ...
People assume getting stronger and building muscle are the same thing, but hear me out.Â
You can gain strength without adding much muscle. And you can add muscle without dramatically increasing strength.
Understanding the difference will help you train much more effectively, so read on.
