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Tourney Day? The first W you need is the Warmup: Looking back on my sports history, two of the most significant gaps pre-Achilles rupture were: 1. Warming up before beginning to play/compete 2. Cooling down after the game/event had wrapped During my recovery, these...

For Size and Fat Loss_ Levergaing GBC Training With the recent resurgence of some of the late Charles Poliquin's work, I thought I would pay homage to one of my first exposures to one of his popularizations: German Body Composition (GBC). This will not be a historical...

Integrating strength training and conditioning. The term strength and conditioning is thrown around a lot nowadays in the fitness industry. Many times it’s associated with high-performance coaches and experts working with only the highest caliber of athletes. However,...

  Building on my prior post on Tempo, Time Under Tension (TUT) is the next step in creating more targeted training programs. By having a goal TUT, we can target the specific training quality we want, whether it be power, strength, hypertrophy, or endurance. Time...

When new trainees think about exercises, seldomly is the speed of execution a point of focus. Reps, sets, and the movement are typically at the forefront of their minds. However, this limited view can pigeon hold your thinking about what a ‘typical’ repetition...

We all know that building back after an injury is a challenging experience, physically as well as mentally. In the moment, there is the injury itself — the shock and disbelief, the frustration, the physical pain. Then there is the aftermath; the inability to interact...

Meet Our newest Ambassador MoWaja! Mo Waja is a pickleball player currently competing at the 4.5 level, and is our newest RockTape ambassador as well as a sponsored athlete under the banners of Engage Pickleball (Team Engage) and the Kitchen Dink apparel. Mo actively...