It’s been a busy couple of weeks,and we’re only a few weeks away from moving into our new house, so while I’ve still been hitting the ground running every day, the updates to the site haven’t been as fast and furious as previously, and hopefully that will change this summer. But in the meantime, I have some fun stuff to check out to help you stay learned and edumukated, plus hopefully entertained.

 

Upcoming Workshops

Edmonton, August 22-23. Tony Gentilcore and I will be doing a 2-day workshop on the shoulder and hip, where we cover ALLLLLLL of the bases involved in getting people jacked and beasted out. The early bird rate ends on June 24th, so get in now while you can get it for a cheaper rate.

Click HERE for more info & to Register

We’re also bringing the show to St. Louis September 26-27 (Click HERE for info on that) and Chicago October 17-18 (Click HERE for info on that).

 

Toronto, October 3-4. This 2-day workshop will cover Ruthless Mobility and Advanced Core Training. These two days outline the basic premise of everything I use in my training, including the concepts and theories for instant mobility improvements, flow charts for easier assessments, and a TON of exercises with progressions and regressions to make your life as a trainer much easier and probably a heck of a lot more fun.

 

To register, click the link to download the registration form and send it in.

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Now for some other cool stuff:

A Complete Strength Training Guide for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Lifters – Strengtheory

This was massive, exceptionally thorough, and easy to read for any level of lifter. The goals of the article were to arm anyone with a reductionistic plan to focus their efforts on what is going to give them the best results possible, and how to achieve their goals. It’s a big read, but that shouldn’t stop anyone who wants to see progress in their workouts. An hour of reading that would be worth countless hours of programming in the gym? Seems like a fair trade.

You Down With GPP? – Tony Gentilcore

Weird, doing lower intensity cardio every once in a while doesn’t result in you looking like a concentration camp survivor, steal your gainz, or make you fat. Who’d a thunk? This mirrors a lot of my sentiments about steady state and lower intensity cardio, as I’ve shown HERE, and essentially it comes down to developing the entire individual through multiple modalities, not simply making them have only one gear to work in. There’s a lot of benefits to occasional or even regular inclusions of lower intensity activity to a regular fitness program, and the least of which is they’re often easier to do and somewhat less face-meltingly “I hate my life and everything about it” feeling after the workout is done.

Business Before Fitness – Pete Dupuis

When it comes to understanding your strengths, a lot of trainers are excellent coaches but completely suck at the business end of things. That’s understandable, as essentially zero certifications, diplomas or degrees have any business classes in them other than “here’s what you should charge,” and “running your own gym is tha awesomez.”

Because of this, trainers could stand to learn a LOT from someone who actually has business-specific education. Pete Dupuis is one such individual, holding an MBA while also having a track record of building one of the most successful and sought after gyms in North America in Cressey Sport Performance.

I Went Paleo And Now I Hate Everything – The Everywhereist

This was incredibly funny, and an awesomely told story. I like aspects of diets that teach people to eat foods they prepare themselves, but find most diets tend to restrict certain types of foods simply on concepts that aren’t really all that beneficial (Re: Cavemen didn’t eat that, so you shouldn’t either). If that was the case, people of European decent who could trace their lineage back 20,000 years and had no ties to western Africa, the Caribbean, Central or South America, or other tropical regions would be well advised to avoid anything like coconuts (coconut oil, flour, etc), tropical fruits like mangoes and bananas, or most types of fish. Also, anyone who was not from central or south American decent would be advised to avoid tomatoes, as they were an import from the Spanish Conquistadores, so have fun with that. And eating fruit won’t give you the ‘beetus, so enjoy foods you enjoy, even if some pseudo-scientific “diet” says you’ll develop cancer in your chakras.

 

4 Gym Gadgets that are Wasting Your Time – Dr. John Rusin via T-Nation

Wearable technology is becoming very popular, and in some instances can be incredibly valuable, but there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t do anything close to what it’s meant to do. For instance, altitude masks don’t come even close to replicating the conditions of altitude, as I’ve discussed HERE.  All they do is reduce the volume of air you can bring in during an inhalation while providing resistance to that inhale. A cheaper and exactly the same option would be to get a respirator from an auto shop like the guys who do body work or work in Hazmat suits. An added bonus of those is they would filter the air for you so you wouldn’t smell the farts from the guy who was going hard Paleo while also smashing his pre-workout and protein shake from a dirty cup next to you.

Last but not least, here’s a video from Bro Science to make the lulz for your weekend.