“Sport Specific Training” is the biggest buzz word in athlete performance today, but no one really knows exactly what it means. What is Sport Specific Training? If you Google it or ask any strength coach who is trying to sell you something, they will show you a ton of whacky exercises consisting of big bouncy ...…
Check out some of the football players gettin’ after it on a Friday while everyone else is sitting at home. These kids are busting it and the season is still 4 months away! Why do Football players only talk about “working out in the summer”? What you do the other 7 months is what is ...…
Yep. I don’t care if you got it from me, another strength coach, the head coach of your sport, a magazine, or from a website. It sucks… period It is the reason you never get results. It is the reason you aren’t a better athlete. I’m 100% sure of it. I know that every time ...…
There are staples for any type of training program out there. Squat, Bench, Deadlift, Overhead Press should be the basis of any good program right? Does that mean they have to always be completed in the gym? Nope. If you are stuck in a plateau no matter what your physique or athletic goals are, then ...…
One of the main reasons (although there are tons) I had to open my own facility and get out of training in a globo gym, was watching other uneducated people exercise. You can YouTube all sorts of horrible exercise techniques, methods, exercises, and even people dancing while walking on the treadmill… After seeing this personally ...…
As one of the main finishers for upper body conditioning we do at Genesis Athletic Performance, Battling Ropes have become pretty popular. They have been around for a while, but are just now starting to take off. Someone even told me they saw it on an episode of The Biggest Loser a few weeks ago. ...…
The best results I ever achieved physique wise throughout the years didn’t occur based off what exercises I was doing (as long as I was still doing basic big compound movements), how much I was lifting, or how many sets or reps I was doing, but instead how closely I was paying attention to my ...…
What should you eat to get bigger, leaner, healthier, recover better, etc.? This gets asked numerous times not just to me, but to anyone who actually looks like they workout. There are so many options, contradicting studies, fad diets, and other information out there that people never seem to get a straight answer. This makes ...…
Supplements are one of the markets if not the biggest thing in fitness currently and because of that everyone is trying to get a piece of the action. The Dietary Supplement industry averages $20 billion dollars in consumer sales each year and the majority of that comes from some fad pill, cream, or miracle drug ...…
Punch “Being Content” in the Mouth That’s right. If you don’t and that content feeling starts to take you over then you have already failed. It is as simple as that. Do you follow the same mundane routine day in and day out never noticing the results or what is going on around you? If ...…
