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Bodyweight Workout – Are you (or your athletes) strong enough to do this?

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I LOVE Bodyweight exercises and bodyweight workouts! There is nothing better than burning fat, building muscle and developing insane relative strength using the best piece of exercise equipment ever invented – the human body! . Today’s video is about old time, high school style rope climbing… without using your legs! Many athletes think they’re strong. But, …

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Tabata Protocol – (The Missing) Bodyweight Tabata Workout

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Yesterday, my article titled Six New Tabata Workouts for Fast Fat Loss was published at Tmuscle.com. . The article tells you everything you need to know about the Tabata protocol and effective Tabata workouts. But, the article originally included 7 workouts, not 6! The editors, for whatever reason, decided not to included the 7th workout. …

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Tabata Intervals – 8 Week Workout Progression

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A few weeks ago, I did a post covering a 12-week interval training progression using the Tabata Protocol. . In that post, I discussed exactly what Tabata Intervals are, why Tabata Workouts benefit athletes of all levels and off course, how to gradually progress over a 12-week period to prevent overtraining. . In this post, …

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Push Up Plus Exercise – A Better Way!

Bodyweight Training, Core/ Torso Training, Corrective Exercise / Pre-Hab, Dynamic Warm Up, MMA / Spartan Workout, New Exercises, Shoulder Pain / Injury / By

One of the best and most popular shoulder stabilization / pre-hab drills used among strength coaches these days is the Push Up Plus exercise. Why? – Because it’s a great exercise for activating and strengthening the all important Serratus Anterior muscles of the shoulder. . A strong Serratus Anterior muscle is crucial for optimal shoulder …

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How to Get Stronger WITHOUT Increasing the Weight Load – (Part 2 of 4)

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So far, the feedback from Part 1 has been fantastic! So, please keep your comments coming! . If you missed my first installment of How to Get Stronger WITHOUT Increasing the Weight Load – Go here after watching the video below. . In Part 1 – I explain the reasoning behing why adding weight is …

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How to Get Stronger WITHOUT Increasing the Weight Load – (Part 1 of 4)

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Everyone knows that in order to continually get stronger, bigger, leaner or faster you must consistently challenge your body by adding progression. More specifically, you need to always incorporate a progressive challenge to your workouts. . Although this concept is well known, the methods of how to do this safely, efficiently and effectively are still somewhat …

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Interval Training Workout – Upper Body Conditioning

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In my last post, I provided you with Mark Young’s brilliant concept of using Tight Rotations as part of a cardio / conditioning / fat loss workout. . As promised, in this post, I have provided a video that will show you one of the ways I utilize Tight Rotations in our Metabolic Conditioning here …

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Interval Training Workout – Using the Tight Rotation Exercise for Fat Loss

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A little while ago, my good friend and Fellow Strength Coach, Mark Young, sent me an email about how he has been incorporating the Tight rotation Core training progressions into his interval conditioning workouts.  You can check out Mark’s Blog here. . I wanted to share Mark’s email with you because he has a great …

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