My next Best of 2014 installment is all about the best books I read this year. Between reading during lunch breaks at Brown University and listening to audiobooks during my hour-long drive to Cressey Sports Performance, I consumed more books during this calendar year than the past several years combined. Since anatomy and physiology don’t …
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted an article. Between spending time with family over Christmas and making a career move, writing has been on the back burner. Which leads me to an announcement… At the end of my internship at Cressey Sports Performance, I accepted a position at CSP as a full-time coach. …
Chicken has long been the staple of “healthy” diets for years. Deservedly so, since it’s almost 100 percent protein with minimal fat and zero carbs. Protein helps us build muscle and keeps us full when we’re trying to lose fat, so chicken fits the bill nicely. But have you ever tried to choke down bland, …
If there was a lower body exercise Mount Rushmore (which would definitely be erected in Columbus, Ohio, NOT South Dakota), squats and deadlifts would be the Washington and Lincoln. And I’d argue that kettlebell swings, in all their hip-thrusting glory, would represent the progressive Teddy Roosevelt. Kettlebell swings can do it all. Strength, power, insane conditioning …
