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ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND FITNESS BLOGS, WRITTEN BY PERSONAL TRAINER & BODYWORKER, ROB STEPHENSON
Practice vs Perform: Which Gets You Better?
THE FACTS Whenever we think of working out typically it sends us into the performance state of pushing ourselves. And there's nothing wrong with that- unless it's all you're doing whenever you train. I understand there are a lot of us out there who played sports all...
Flexibility, Mobility, and Stability: How To Get It
Everyone who trains is usually looking for something different. Somebody might do it to counter their work lifestyle, like somebody who sits eight hours a day, five days a week. Someone else does it for competition, trying to achieve a personal best in either an...
Training Your Legs and Glutes to Explode: Bosu Ballin’
The bosu ball gets a rap. People do all sorts of weird things in the gyms with them, but having said that, this post isn't about complaining about those people. Instead I want to discuss the importance of utilizing the bosu ball for leg and hip development, as well as...
Single Leg Exercise: Are You Stable?
Single leg training can be one of the most important components to strengthening and aligning your hip, knee, and ankle. This exercise is one I do each day I train my lower body, as well as days off. It may look like a 'cool down' exercise, but it is in-fact a warmup...
3 Keys To Physical Autonomy
I get asked all the time, "Rob how do I get better?" 'Better' is relative to the circumstance at hand, but generally speaking the person I'm training is asking about how to improve the functionality, stability, and strength of their body. Sure we could dive into...
Turning On The Posterior & Anterior Chains
Having a posterior chain that receives the message to 'turn-on' is going to help us in the world of movement for many reasons. Apart from being a major contributor to uprightness and posture, it is also a contributor to lifting load off of our joints and creating...
My Top 10 Tips To Train Smarter
Self motivation and discipline are two prerequisites to succeed in any sort of training plan. I don't care what you're working towards; a handstand, a 5k, a heavy squat, a marathon, a dance recital, an exam, a lab project, grad school, a family, whatever it is, you...
EASE Your Way Into Better Fitness
Fitness can be taught so many ways that you'd waste hours listing all the methods you could take towards improving it. The biggest fallacy, in my opinion, is that more is better, faster is better, and heavier is better. When we emphasize more, we automatically stop...
How To Achieve Sustained Peak Performance
This kind of neck gripping is robbing all of us of power! I've got three muscle groups to talk about today; diaphragm, core, and glutes. A preface; if you read this post and watch the video you will learn how to develop these parts of your body together, thus...
Types of Strength Training
The way I see it, you can train your body and mind any way you want. You can elicit the response you want most out of your body depending on how you go about training for that specific adaptation. For example, if your goal is to jump a certain height, you layout what...
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