Balance in everything we do is the optimal choice for a strong, healthy lifestyle. Chasing extreme trends inevitably leads to worse outcomes for us - physically, mentally, emotionally.Walk into any major supermarket and scan the magazines at the checkout counter. They're pure comedy, trumpeting the latest beach body diet, guaranteed to have you dropping 20 lbs in just 2 … [Read more...]

I get it.You’re too busy to meditate. I am too. You’ve got too much shit going on to train. Me too. Working on kickass posture, obtaining the highest quality animals and veggies to eat, it all sucks up bandwidth.It’s not that you don’t aspire to. You trust all the benefits. From NAU.edu, reporting on a 2011 study about mindful meditation:It strengthened immune … [Read more...]

Our brains need a break, both from everyday routines and, in particular, our workouts.Over the course of time, doing the same thing day in and day out leaves us with a stale routine. Our workouts become drab and exhausting. There’s only one way to break out of that rut. We must experiment with something new from time to time to keep things fresh.Routines can be … [Read more...]

The bench press is not dangerous for baseball players. It’s not dangerous for pitchers, either. If your goal is to add strength, power and athletic function, the move is highly valuable and should not be pushed to the side by ballplayers (or anyone) brainwashed by dogmatic, antiquated thinking.I can remember a major league trainer telling me that I shouldn’t do traditional … [Read more...]

More is better, right?I used to lift with ferocity daily for hours at a time. As I learned the value of appropriate rest and recovery, as well as having different obligations and priorities (like wanting to spend time with my sons), I was spending about 90 minutes 3 days a week. From jasonferruggia.com: When it comes to workout duration less is more.To build muscle and … [Read more...]