Last week I held a contest to give away a copy of High Tensile Strength Platinum edition to the person who got the most love through comments and upvotes. It was a landslide win for Karen Sears, so she’s going to ring in 2016 with a brand spankin new fitness program to get her sweat on. Email me HERE and I’ll hook you up, Karen.

If you want to get a copy to start your 2016 off, you’re in luck. Since it’s a digital program, you can get it immediately downloaded and start today. It’s a 6 month semi-custom program with 48 different programming tracks, over 300 custom coaching exercise videos, and weekly email check ins from yours truly so it doesn’t go out of sight, out of mind.

Click HERE to get more info and pick up HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH today.

With that out of the way, I wanted to review some of the biggest posts on this site in the past 12 months, in case there was a few you may have missed out on.

Butt Wink is Not About The Hamstrings – Originally posted July 7, 2014

While technically not a post released this year, it set the stage for a couple of big things that came later, which I’ll feature in just a second.

Beyond Butt Wink: Hip Shape, Individual Abilities and Injuries: Part 1 – Posted May 18, 2015

Beyond Butt Wink: Part 2 – Posted May 19, 2015

Beyond Butt Wink: Part 3 – Posted May 21, 2015

This 3 part series essentially caused a massive ripple in the strength and conditioning world by not only highlighting the fact that people have different shaped bones, but also showing how those positions could affect the geometry of the positions they could get to before bone to bone contact limited further range of motion, and how that variation could be fairly significant, and even different from one side of the body to the other. I then showed how you could assess yourself to determine your own ranges of motion, asymmetries, and how you could go about programming your exercises with individual variations to get the best benefit without the injury risk.

The Coaching Grey Zone: When to Simply Shut Up – Posted June 29, 2015

Occasionally coaches need to step back, not cue their athletes or clients, and let them discover on their own how to do something. Self-guided discovery often can offer more lasting lessons than always having the information given.

5 Things I’ve Been Wrong About – Posted July 14, 2015

I’m far from perfect, so here’s stuff I used to believe in and do and that has fallen by the wayside in light of new evidence, and also how I’ve changed my approach in light of that evidence. I’m sure I’m doing a lot of other stuff wrong at the moment and will change over time, but that’s the beauty of not being married to a specific approach. I can adjust as needed without destroying the world.

5 Coaching Cues to Immediately Improve Basic Movements – Posted August 17, 2015

Sometimes using internal versus external cues works, and sometimes external cues works best. For many people performing basic movements, there’s some cues that seem to work well with everyone, and this post outlines the ones I find are most effective.

5 Core Exercises You’ve Probably Never Done – posted June 19, 2015

Wow, I really like the number 5, don’t I?

How to Actually Stretch the Hip Flexors – posted January 27, 2015

Ah, the hip flexors. A more begotten and forelorned muscle group you have never seen. Stretching it isn’t that hard, but a lot of people try to put their own flourish on it to make it look cool and then wonder why their low back hurts and their hip flexors are still “tight.” Here’s how to actually stretch them.

Stretching the Low Back Muscles – Posted January 19th, 2015

Do you need to stretch your low back, and if so, how do you do it and where should you feel it? Pressing questions, in deed.

Enjoy the wrap-up from 2015!! Here’s hoping the wrap up from 2016 is massively better quality writing and content.