It is time for the weekly recap. We are back with our usual two articles, one Instagram post, and one Facebook post. Our first article focuses on how to make the most of your home workouts with no equipment while the second article goes over why it is important to go outside. I think many of us are trying to get outside more during this time so hearing all of the benefits is motivating to continue to do it. And Dr. Andy Chen and Ben Cormack have the social media posts of the week. Click to read all about them.
Read MoreFat loss can seem confusing and overwhelming for many. Ryan K goes over the big picture and gives 3 quick tips to help you understand fat loss and to help get you started.
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This week Coach Paul and Coach Ryan are back with the 2nd episode of The RTL Podcast. In this episode, Coach Ryan and Paul talk about the current landscape of the fitness industry.
Read MoreIt should be no surprise that this week’s weekly recap theme is the quarantine and home workouts. We are all going through this time together. We gathered 2 awesome articles about getting the most out of your home workouts. With that being our only option at the moment, we should all be making the best of it and try to get everything we can out of them. It is also another week with 2 Instagram posts. Instagram has been filled with some great content during this quarantine so we wanted to show extra love to posts from there.
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The first episode of The Resilient Training Lab Podcast is live. Click here to read all about this new venture.
Read MoreThree of the four pieces are coronavirus/quarantine related and give helpful ideas, insights, and tips on managing the situation at hand. The 2nd article is a nice break from all of the coronavirus information and is very interesting. It is a noise that you have probably heard but didn’t know what it was, what is was called, or if it is something to be concerned about. Give everything a read for some useful information and let us know what you think!
Read MoreThere’s a bunch of great takeaways from these random thoughts of Paul Milano. Click to read all 11 thoughts!
Read MoreOur weekly recap is filled with an article that covers how we can improve our lifts by experimenting and improving our movement intelligence, an article about the benefits of getting ourselves outdoors, an Instagram post about sleep, and a Facebook post about starting small and simple when implementing new lifestyle changes rather than over-complicating things just so they can fit into your personal ideaologies.
Read MoreWith respect to progressive overload, there are many ways to increase the stress of a training block. The purpose of this article to highlight the 5 different variables we can manipulate in a training block, also known as the Acute Program Variables (APV.)
Read MoreAs usual, we have collected some awesome articles and social media posts from around the web. There are some useful and interesting mindset information in this week’s weekly recap. We also have a bonus Youtube video at the end to go along with the mindset theme of the week.
Read MorePart 2 of Training vs. Working Out covers why exercise choice matters and the extreme importance of following the program as written through to the end.
Read MoreThis weekly recap wraps up the month of February and is full of good stuff. First, we have an article about why you should do a powerlifting meet. We get many questions from clients about the benefits of a lifting belt and if they should get one so the second articles covers everything about using one. To wrap up the social media posts from the week, we have one from Dr. Pat Davidson about lifting for women and the other comes from Dr. Spencer Nadolsky about the simplicity of fat loss.
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"What is the difference?" you ask, "Aren't working out and training the same thing?" Well, not quite… When you are working out, you are just exercising for the sake of exercising, but when you’re training, you are exercising with the goal of building fitness!
Read MoreWith another week passed, comes another weekly recap. This week we are have 2 articles about your back. One articles goes over how MRIs and X-rays are not so useful, and the second article covers posture. Our Facebook post is from Vitamin PhD and goes over how setting realistic, achievable goals aren’t always the most glamorous or exciting, but are the most effective. Claire Zai wraps up the weekly recap with an Instagram post on why she focuses her coaching primarily on women.
Read MoreAttack the bar every time you step up to the barbell. Every time you approach the bar, it is an opportunity to practice your set-up and technique in that lift. You want to make sure you approach the bar the same way every single time regardless of what weight is on the bar.
Read MoreWe are back again with more awesome articles and social media posts. This week we have an inspiring article about a 91 year old gym goer, a Facebook post about stress, an article about anecdotes versus data and facts, and an Instagram post from one of our very own coach, Ryan VanNieuwenhuyze.
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Training has awesome highs and serious lows. While some factors are completely out of our control, there are others that we can influence. Controlling what we can will both improve our long-term progress and make our time in the gym more efficient. Here are 6 factors you can influence in order to have more consistent training sessions.
Read MoreWe are back with some of the best articles and social media posts that we came across this week. Keep reading on for articles about the bettering health and social policies in the US and what to do when you start feeling pain while training, an Instagram post from Eric Cressey, and a Facebook post with some awesome takeaways from Dustin Lebel.
Read MoreIn the past two week weeks, we have covered everything training load and load management. Today we will discuss the practical application of these concepts!
Read MoreA recap of the best articles and social media posts of the week!
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