Unless you’re a newly certified, clipboard toting, wet-behind-the ears trainer at your local globo gym, you know that no two programs are created alike. A client’s goals, needs, medical history, present activity level, injury history, aversions, financial and time constraints can shape the program you design for them. So why should everyone go through the...Read More

If we are honest with ourselves we all know that we need a good challenge every once in a while to take us out of our comfort zone and keep us moving forward. Training, and life, can be come stale in a hurry if we aren’t continually pushing our limits and striving to achieve more....Read More

How do you combine naps and the sport of Lacrosse to make your shoulders feel and move better? You don’t really.  But doing a SLEEPER stretch with a LACROSSE ball pinned in your external rotators can work wonders for improving tissue quality and mobility. In my last T-Nation article I included the sleeper stretch with...Read More

This past Thursday I had a new article published in Testosterone Magazine (t-nation.com).  It is about hoisting heavy barbells above your head as you stand.  This is a subject near and dear to my heart (take notice to the Beyond Strength Performance logo) so I wanted to make sure lifters and coaches had a good...Read More

It seems like everyone and there brother now-a-days knows that having shortened/tightened hip flexors can lead to a whole host of movement problems.  And while I try not to write too much about corrective exercise, this is one vein that I feel compelled to tap! So, we have a trillion gym go-ers, personal trainers and...Read More

 So you are hurt… what to do, oh what to do…           If you are reading this blog, you either: 1)  Really enjoy watching videos made by Todd, being sure that you view these videos while wearing sunglasses seeing as Todd is the whitest human being since “Powder” (sorry dude, but...Read More

My friend Joe Meglio is an absolute beast!  And underthe coaching of Zach Even-Esh, he has turned out to be a great strength coach.  I was pumped when he said he could take the time to do an interview with me.  If you haven’t heard of Joe Meglio yet, trust me you’ll be hearing a...Read More

Any avid Beyond Strength reader knows how important a solid warm-up is for health and longevity.  That’s why you spend those first 15 minutes at the gym getting your mind right and readying your body for the proverbial storm to come. Consider your bouts of movement prep, active-isolated stretching and activation exercises, the training equivalent...Read More

As I was sitting around on a man-date the other night in beautiful Seneca Falls (if you don’t know where that is, you are lucky) Todd and I engaged in a conversation of typical manly things such as Justin Beiber, high fashion, and all that has to do with the next season of “The Bachelor.”...Read More

Today marks the start of a new series that Chris and I will be running on the blog, 5 Questions with… During this interview series we will be talking with strength coaches and trainers all over the country so they can share their knowledge with you!  For our first interview I contacted my graduate school...Read More

Blast through bench plateaus and arm yourself with triceps mass with a unique combo exercise.  Intro Your bench hasn’t budged since the Dallas Cowboys were America’s Team. You’ve tried everything to fix it: an uber complicated conjugate periodization program to develop your bench press through a system of wave loaded sets, pyramiding, and ramping up...Read More

Quarterbacks play a position unlike any other on a football team.  Not only are they put under an extreme amount of mental stress throughout the course of a game and season, their bodies are also exposed to stressors not typical of other players.  While other players are exposed to repeated low-intensity collisions and high-velocity collisions,...Read More

There’s always a lot of talk about what to do to ensure healthy shoulders when training the bench press, and it is relatively common knowledge that the health and mobility of the thoracic spine can have a dramatic impact on health at the shoulder joints. The picture on the left is of me benching at...Read More

It is often said that variety is the spice of life, and unfortunately for the uneducated masses, this platitude has permeated into the world of exercise and fitness.  One of the largest problems I see in exercise programs today is by far too much variation.  I admit that I am often guilty of this myself. ...Read More

What I’m about to talk about isn’t ground breaking or new.  In fact, other coaches and trainers have probably covered the topics I’m going to cover in this post already this year.  However, I get questions from guys (and gals) every week at the gym or through email so I thought it warranted to discuss...Read More