The Inside Out Strength Blog

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

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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4 Common Pickleball Injuries and How to Fix Them activelifestyle backpain exerciseprogramming kneepain pickleball shoulderpain Jun 14, 2022

Pickleball has exploded in popularity recently, and if you’re reading this you’re probably one of those raving fans that can’t wait until the next time you play. It’s hard...

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Why Peak Performance Starts With A Firm Foundation activelifestyle exerciseprogramming May 24, 2022

 If you’re chasing peak performance, you have to make sure you have a firm foundation in place first. Whether your goal is to compete at a high level in your sport or activity, or simply...

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Which Dietary Approach Is Best For You? activelifestyle nutrition May 17, 2022

The nutrition industry is infamous for making things more confusing than they need to be, so with all the information readily available how do you know which dietary approach is right for you? You...

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Keeping Nutrition Simple activelifestyle nutrition May 03, 2022

At Inside Out we like to keep things simple with our iO Nutrition. When it comes to nutrition we believe simplicity is key. We believe in eating whole foods, limiting processed foods, sugars,...

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The 3 Second Rule activelifestyle goalsetting Apr 19, 2022

Do you find yourself struggling to find motivation or take action? Do you put off your most important things to get done and find yourself keeping ‘busy’ but not creating meaningful...

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