Why You’re Not Getting Stronger (The Real Reasons Lifters Plateau) fueling performance how to avoid training plateaus how to build strength how to lose fat hybrid training progressive overload sleep strength and conditioning workout recovery Dec 04, 2025

If you’re training consistently but not getting stronger, you’re not alone and you’re not broken. Strength is extremely predictable when you follow the fundamentals. Most plateaus come from a handful of issues that stop the body from adapting.

This blog breaks down the real reasons you're not getti...

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Concurrent (HYBRID) Training: Strong and Conditioned, Not Either/Or concurrent training hybrid athlete hybrid training interference effect longevity performance longevity strength and conditioning strength training for tactical athletes Nov 04, 2025

For years, the strength world and the endurance world pretended like they were enemies.

Lifters said cardio would kill gains.
Runners said heavy strength made you slow.

Meanwhile, the strongest, most resilient, most capable humans were doing both.

This is concurrent training: you build strength an...

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How to Train Like an Athlete Again (Even If You’re in Your 30s, 40s, or 50s!) best training programs build core strength calories for performance cardiovascular fitness durability training injury prevention macros for performance strength and conditioning train like an athlete workout recovery Aug 15, 2025

You used to move like an athlete.
You trained hard. You competed. You pushed your limits.

But then… life happened.

Work, family, bills, responsibilities. Your training got pushed to the back burner. Your body composition changed. Your confidence dipped. And now the workouts (if they happen at all) ...

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Trunk Strength Grinds: The Durability (Anti) Secret build core strength core training durability training injury prevention injury reduction prevent injuries as a tactical athlete strength and conditioning strength training for tactical athletes trunk strength Apr 02, 2025

If you’ve followed my training for any length of time, you know I’m big on durability. The ability to stay in the game, train hard, and keep injuries at bay is one thing that separates those who perform for a lifetime from those who burn out too soon.

Even more importantly (for me), is the ability ...

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Unconventional Training: Strength & Conditioning Beyond the Norm fun workouts how to train unconventionally kettlebell training kettlebell workouts new training methods popular training methods steel maces and steel clubs strength and conditioning the most fun type of workouts unconventional training unconventional training is fun what is unconventional training Feb 16, 2025

Unconventional training isn’t unconventional because it’s ineffective or new, it’s just not the standard barbell and dumbbell dominated approach that most people think of when they hear “strength and conditioning.”

Instead, it’s a mix of old school training methods and movement patterns that are e...

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Experimenting with Training Programs: What Actually Works? best training programs online personal trainer personal training results from fitness programs strength and conditioning unconventional training what fitness programs work best? what programs get results fastest? Feb 10, 2025

I’ve experimented with a ton of different programming styles over the years, and I’ve been lucky enough to test-run variations of them all — both in person and online— with over 20,000 people now.

What started as a simple boot camp for soccer moms and dads in my hometown eventually led to working w...

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