strength

Wear & Repair

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Brandon Chien   “Wear and tear” is such a poor outlook on the body. Think Wear AND repair, and you’ll be in rhythm with your body. A little bit of chaos in your life gives your body a reason to heal. The gifts of our youth can be renewed by doing what we fear at […]

Build Hanging Strength from Zero

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Tom Morrison   There are some things in life that can get taken away from us as we get older, and hanging is one of them! As you age, your upper back and shoulders can start to become really stiff especially if you aren’t putting your arms above your head regularly. When you’re too old […]

Joint Specific Band Work

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Brian Fox     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Human Animation (@briangfox)     View this post on Instagram   […]

Butter Back (part 3)

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Jeremy Fein   Go Further with Strength. Strengthen your middle, strengthen your movement.   STRONG BACK   STRONG FRONT   STRONG SIDES   STRONG EVERYWHERE (ROTATION)  

Cheat Codes with Adarian Barr

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Adarian Barr Christine Ruffolo   Part One: Biarticulate Muscles & Rotations iFrame is not supported!   Part Two: Q & A from instagram live: yaw, starts, toe drag, scrumming, hips, & more. iFrame is not supported!   If you are interested in learning more about these concepts and contexts, Adarian wrote a book with Jenn […]

You Decide What’s Optimal

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Tasha Louie     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by T A S H A (@tasha.louie)     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by T A S H A (@tasha.louie) In case you missed this in the comments of post #2:

Redefining ‘Muscle Firing’

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Tom Morrison   Have you ever been told or thought that a certain muscle just isn’t firing?   Unfortunately, a muscle firing has nothing to do with cool laser beams shooting from your double bicep pose… much to my immense disappointment… but instead it’s a much more confusing term that has people scratching their heads […]

Learning Strength

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Jenn Pilotti   I recently took up pole dancing. My sister thinks I am having a midlife crisis which, though it may be accurate, isn’t the reason I felt compelled to begin flipping upside down on a solid vertical object. In actuality, the act of learning how to navigate my body around a pole gave […]

End Range Training for Hypermobiles

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Catherine Cowey     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Catherine Cowey (@catherinecowey)   How hypermobile are you?   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Catherine Cowey (@catherinecowey)

Calisthenics Strength Training Principles

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Fanny Tulloch   What is this thing you call “Calisthenics Strength training”? The definition of the word Calisthenics varies greatly. If you ask Wikipedia it says the words Kallos and Sthenos comes from the Greek and means Beauty and Strength (great mental strength, courage, strength, determination). “It is the art of using one’s body weight as resistance in order to develop physique”. Further on it […]

Progressive Load Applied to Everything

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Samantha Faulhaber If you want to get stronger, you might lift things up and put them back down again. How do you determine how much to lift up, and how often? In the most general terms possible, you lift up stuff you can handle without hurting yourself. Then you wait until you’ve healed up from […]