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Your Week Off From Training Isn't Going to Fix Your Back
We've all been there. I know I have. Training is running smooth, you're making consistent progress, and feeling great in the gym. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, it hits. There goes your back. The instant it hits, you go stiff in an effort to prevent increased irritation. Slowly a sharp pulling sens...
Warming Up For Dummies: A Lifter’s Guide to Injury Prevention
Warming up is like eating vegetables. Everyone knows it's good for them but at the end of the day, compliance is considerably lacking. I’m sure most dudes would rather spend their first 15 minutes at the gym checking out girls on the elliptical or telling their buddies about an "epic” half squat PR...
Shoulder Savers: Training Around Pain and Making Gains
There’s no other region of the body that gets as chronically beat up on lifters as the shoulder joint. While we all love to press heavy and torch the shoulders with crazy intensity, it’s just a matter of time until the shoulders start to fight back, leaving you broken down and hurt in the process. A...
Preventing Back Pain: 6 Tips to Promoting a Healthy Spine
There are many reasons that someone’s back can be out of whack in the gym, causing chronic pain or acute injuries. In some cases, it could come down to bad overall posture, making the low back bear plenty more load than it ever should be. In others, it could be chalked up to poor lifting technique,...
How to Fix Rib Flaring Posture Imbalance
Do your ribs protrude out 1-2 inches in front of the rest of your body? Do you experience any type of musculoskeletal pain on a regular basis? If so, this article is for you! If you’re wondering, “what the heck is a rib flare anyway?” then this article is also for you. Rib flare is one of the most c...
Elbow Pain? 6 Tips for Training Around Cranky Elbows
It’s Monday and if you’re like most testosterone raging males, that means bench press and lots of it. However, elbow pain can easily put a damper on your pec pumping party. Here’s how to get your mojo back… Joint by Joint Approach The elbow is essentially the knee of the upper body. It’s routinel...
4 Ways to Guarantee an Injury (And How to Prevent Them!)
Aside from getting jacked and strong, becoming durable and resilient against injuries is the most captivating reason so many lifters naturally gravitate towards training. But lets be honest, when’s the last time you set aside your ego and rationally looked at your program as a way to keep your body...
4 Effective Foam Rolling Drills That Increase Mobility
Just because you’re using a foam roller doesn’t necessarily mean that movement should be considered a self-myofascial releases (SMR) technique. This may be hard for some of you overly touchy feely soft tissue zealots to conceptualize, but the foam roller is just another piece of equipment in a gym....
Injury Prevention 101: 3 Ways to Prevent a Shoulder Injury
The shoulder complex is, well, complex. It’s one of the most unstable joints in the body. And its risk for injury can be high if we don’t take the right measures to care for it in the world of lifting and athletics. It’s a ball and socket joint that’s made up of very delicate structures, and the thi...
Injury Prevention 101: 3 Ways to Prevent a Knee Injury
Having “bad knees” has got to be one of the most typical and common ailments when examining the world of fitness and people who are health nuts. Many who used to compete in a sport have paid the ultimate price by way of chronic pain, or even worse, obtaining an acute injury that left them sidelined...
Injury Prevention 101: 3 Ways to Prevent a Hernia
I don’t wish injury on my worst enemy when it comes to the gym life, but sometimes circumstances get compromised, and you can find yourself amid a forced reality check by way of a setback. Many things can explain the reasons for a lifting injury – you could have been using poor form, you could have...
Side Stepping Injury: 3 Ways to Train Around Knee Pain
There’s no doubt that the knees are some of the most ornery joints in the body for most lifters. For those of you who go to battle against the iron on leg day with reckless abandon, you know what I’m talking about. Don’t think that knee pain is something that only happens to beat up old lifters. No...
Loosen Up Bro: 3 Drills to Prevent Shoulder Pain
If your shoulders are always giving you problems even though you are stretching and foam rolling consistently, it’s time to look elsewhere to get out of pain and improve performance. Here are three favorite shoulder mobility drills that will improve your movement and fix this common pain point forev...
3 New Mobility Drills You Should Include in Your Warm Ups
Mobility has turned into the Antichrist for strength and size trainees across the globe, but it shouldn’t be. The truth is, you’re only going to be as strong as your range of motion allows. As soon as you leave your comfort zone, you’ll notice a dip in strength that’s so severe it’ll be humbling. A...