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Simple and practical strength training and nutrition strategies for those looking to build muscle and burn fat (without spending their life at the gym)

4 Simple Cues To Improve Your Deadlift May 30, 2023

Have you ever heard deadlifts are bad for your back, or avoided lifting heavy because of a fear of hurting yourself?

If you ask anyone who’s knowledgeable about building strength, function,...

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6 Simple Cues To Improve Your Bench Press May 25, 2023

Have you ever struggled with a weak bench press, or even worse, shoulder or elbow pain while doing it?

While many people simply think the bench press is for the ‘bros’ or bodybuilders...

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7 Simple Cues To Improve Your Back Squat (And Cues You Should NOT Use) May 06, 2023

Do you dread performing the back squat because it feels challenging, or because it gives you pain in your hips, knees, or back?

The back squat is often labeled the king of lower body exercises and...

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6 Common Nutrition Myths For Weight Loss Apr 22, 2023

This article is meant to address some of the common misconceptions and myths that occur around nutrition and healthy weight loss. A lot of nutrition ‘experts’ out there claim that...

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Breathing Exercises for Sports Performance and Stress Management activelifestyle physicaltherapy warmup Aug 11, 2022

Deep Breath In, Deep Breath Out. Breathing is something we take for granted.  Whether you’re experiencing lingering effects post-COVID or want to improve your breathing for daily...

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What 100+ Kilometers of Walking Lunges Over 8 Months Taught Me (And Why I Wouldn’t Recommend Lunging At 4am With A Flashlight) activelifestyle exerciseprogramming goalsetting strengthtraining Aug 04, 2022

 But why? Is usually the first question that comes up whenever telling someone about my goal. And I’m sure you’re wondering the same thing, right?

 

Well I’ll get to...

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The Golf ‘Sequence’ activelifestyle exerciseprogramming golf mobility strengthtraining Jul 27, 2022

The Golf season is heading into the final stretch and as it does, we want to make sure that we are staying in shape and feeling good all the way through. It is easy to let our workouts and training...

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What Are You Feeding Your Mind? activelifestyle goalsetting Jul 19, 2022

We all know the importance of a healthy diet when it comes to training our body and reaching our physical goals. But how often are you paying attention to what you’re feeding your mind? Most...

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Do You Even Pull? activelifestyle exerciseprogramming strengthtraining weighttraining Jul 14, 2022

So here we are, to wrap up our series on pushing and pulling, we are finishing off with pulling using the lower body. This leaves us with some of the most technical exercises of our push and pull...

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3 Ways To Progress or Improve Your Upper Body Exercises activelifestyle exerciseprogramming shoulderpain strengthtraining Jul 06, 2022

It is commonly said that we should do two times as many exercises for our posterior chain or back side of the body then the front but what does that really mean? As we move from our pushing...

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The Importance of a Squat & Finding Your Main Focus activelifestyle exerciseprogramming mobility strengthtraining weighttraining Jun 29, 2022

As we move past the most famous push exercise known to man, we can except that the most functional of all patterns is the squat. It starts our development of lower body gait and maintains all...

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6 Exercises to Improve Your Upper Body Lifts exerciseprogramming shoulderpain strengthtraining weighttraining Jun 21, 2022

‘How much do you bench Bro?’ could be the most famous question in any lifting space around the gym world.  Mondays are the popular ‘Chest’ day that leaves benches and...

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