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December 6, 2017

What’s Up With This Eating Slowly?

One of the first habits we give to people regarding their nutrition journey is eating slowly. . It’s not sexy, but it’s effective. There are a couple of reasons as to why we choose this one first. . We want people to develop a personal handbook on how their body behaves and responds. A handbook...

November 29, 2017

Holding Tension – The balance between aspirational and attainable goals

Today’s blog post comes from a wonderful human being—BSP NOVA member, Supriya Baily. Supriya has been training with us since April of 2015, and she continually attains things that SHE never thought possible (like a 255# barbell deadlift, which might actually be up to 265# now), and continues to set aspirational goals (she’ll get into...

November 21, 2017

Holiday Season (Food) Survival Guide

The holiday season can cause some serious panic around our food choices. We have parties to attend, traveling, and traditional holiday dishes that can be pretty calorie dense. Some people might say “Oh screw it! There’s no way I can navigate the holiday season. I’m just going to take a break!” What if I told...

November 15, 2017

How to Do a Kitchen Makeover

Are you tired of rummaging through cluttered cabinets? . Do you know what is in your pantry and where it is or does it look like a grocery aisle exploded? . What is that in the back of the fridge or in the bottom drawer? It might be too scary to touch! . Are the...

November 8, 2017

One Simple Change that Can Make or Break Your Success

In the book Switch, by Chip and Dan Heath, they liken our reasoning skills being a rider and an elephant traveling down a path. The rider is the logical part of our brain that desperately tries to control the elephant which is our emotional brain. The rider does a good job managing the elephant for...

November 1, 2017

One of the MOST Important Components of Getting Stronger, Leaner, and Fitter

Part of getting stronger, leaner, and fitter is moving well. The better we move, the more we can handle strength training, conditioning, and just handling the unexpected movements that life throws at us. So, we have to train ourselves to move well. A big part of that is picking strength and conditioning exercises that fit...

October 25, 2017

4 Steps to Better Sleep

It’s crazy how much life, and our ability to improve it, changes when we get quality sleep. From mood elevation to improved metabolic function, getting enough quality sleep is absolutely imperative when in the midst of transformation. (And, really, when are we not in the midst of transformation?) It’s not easy, though, we get that....

October 18, 2017

Transformation Principles: Mindful Eating

We’re currently in the process of writing a transformation guide. This sucker is going to be awesome—and yeah, I’m totally biased—but seriously. It’s going to cover 5 game-changing topics: Mindset, Training, Recovery, Nutrition, and Community. Today’s post provides a preview of a piece from the nutrition section. . Enjoy! . – Chris . Are we...

October 12, 2017

Take a Walk

We’re currently in the process of writing a transformation guide. This sucker is going to be awesome—and yeah, I’m totally biased—but seriously. It’s going to cover 5 game-changing topics: Mindset, Training, Recovery, Nutrition, and Community. Today’s post provides a preview of a piece from the recovery section. . Enjoy! . – Chris “In every...

October 4, 2017

Transformation Principles: Mindset

We’re currently in the process of writing a transformation guide. This sucker is going to be awesome—and yeah, I’m totally biased—but seriously. It’s going to cover 5 game-changing topics: Mindset, Training, Recovery, Nutrition, and Community. . Today’s post provides a preview of a piece from the mindset section. Mindset is arguably the biggest factor in...

September 28, 2017

Value and Priorities with Nutrition

In last week’s nutrition post coach Megs pointed out that all of these crazy diets that come to market seemingly every day may actually be keeping us from getting to our goals. If you missed it, I highly recommend going back and reading it. But, one of the points she made was: “A simple way...

September 27, 2017

Why Your Fitness Tracker Isn’t Enough

The amount of fitness tracker technology available now is crazy. There are rings that track sleep and heart rate, and any number of contraptions that you can slap on your wrist to track your steps, your miles, your routes, your calories, your heart rate, your bowel movement density, etc. etc. etc. (I may have embellished...

September 21, 2017

Is All This Dieting Failing You?

Every time you read a magazine cover, watch television or hang out with your friends, you probably hear about an amazing new diet. You know the one—some new plan that is finally going to get you in those “skinny pants” you have hiding in the back of your closet… . But let me ask you...

September 13, 2017

Why Power Training Is Important for Longevity

Thinking about the word power brings some…well…powerful images to mind. Things like rockets taking off, Lebron James taking off for a dunk, and 100meter sprinters tearing down the track at the Olympics. It almost makes power development seem out of reach for normal folks. Can normal folks ever hope to be powerful? And,...

September 7, 2017

Setting a Goal Isn’t Enough

I have a crisp 100-dollar bill in my pocket that you’ve been asked, ‘what’s your goal?’ quite a few times in your life. Maybe it wasn’t that direct. Maybe someone asked what you were trying to accomplish—probably your parents, one of your coaches, or one of your teachers. And it’s a good question, we all...

August 30, 2017

Why Your Favorite Instagram Model’s Butt Program is a Waste of Time

Well, it’s actually most likely that any program she posts is a waste of time… Excuse the bluntness of this conversation, but I just want to be real with you. Your favorite Instagram model has no idea what she’s doing. There’s a slim to none chance that she has any education pertaining to exercise, physiology,...

August 23, 2017

The ABC’s of the Kettlebell Swing

Last week, in preparation for our Kettlebell Strength Classes that start September 6th, we held a kettlebell swing clinic at Beyond Strength Performance NOVA. We walked the attendees—some were current BSP NOVA Clients, others were new comers—through all the steps it takes to do a successful, safe kettlebell swing. If you couldn’t make it,...

August 16, 2017

I’m New to the Gym, What Should I Do?

“Where in the grand heck do I start?” That’s a good question—we, as people in a bunch of situations, ask ourselves that question. It’s one that people new to the gym ask themselves all the time. And it’s a good question. For those that have never exercised in a gym setting before,...

August 9, 2017

What to do on Non-HIIT Days

Last week we had a quick chat about why HIIT is not enough to build a body that’s strong, looks good, and has longevity. Well, it would be rude of us to say that HIIT isn’t enough and then not fill in the blanks on the other things that you should be doing. So, today,...

August 2, 2017

Why HIIT Isn’t Enough

Let’s pretend that you’re a contractor and you’ve been hired to build a house. I think we can agree that a house is a pretty complex structure, right? It requires a lot of different elements—a foundation, solid walls, good plumbing, sturdy floors, etc. Here’s the catch—you only get one tool to build the house....

July 26, 2017

A Simple Way to Make Change A Little Easier

We like to think we can tell ourselves what to do—that we’re fully in control and we just need to muster up our will power and get to work. Well, we are silly. It doesn’t really work that way. In fact, it doesn’t work that way at all. We’re a mass of unconscious drives that’s...

July 19, 2017

I Just Don’t Want to Fail

Human beings are strange creatures. We’re surrounded by all of these things that could potentially make us happy—like success and the associated positive emotions—but it’s rare that we stretch ourselves and seek them out. Mostly, we spend our efforts trying to avoid bad things we might fail at, rather than actively taking steps toward good...

July 12, 2017

Are You In Shape?

This past week Jeremy Brown, a member of BSP NOVA, posted a question to Facebook looking for opinions as to what defined “in shape,” spurring a stimulating social media conversation. Almost everyone has a picture in their mind of what “in shape” looks like (to them), often depicted by athletes like Simone Biles or Michael...

July 5, 2017

Why You Need Challenges

People that exercise typically want their workouts to be challenging in some way, but challenge runs way deeper than that. Challenge is a way for us to examine ourselves, where we currently stand, and close the gap toward where we’d like to be. They’re also a hell of a lot of fun. Beyond seeking out...

July 3, 2017

Weekly Video Blog, 26/52

This week’s video blog goes over the reverse lunge, using basic principles that transfer to every variation of the lunge. Be sure to check out tomorrow’s Technique Tuesday post to peep a whole lot of lunge variatons- ya know, if that’s your thing… Then, as always, we have an inside look at some of the...

June 28, 2017

BasicSkill, BasicsKill: 5 Reasons to Keep Doing the Simple Stuff

BasicSkill, BasicsKill is a little saying we’ve coined around here. It’s representative of a simple philosophy: get great at the basic exercises and keep doing them because they produce results. That’s why, at BSP NOVA, we focus on getting good at things like squatting, hinging, pushing with our upper-bodies, pulling with our upper-bodies, crawling, and...

June 26, 2017

Weekly Video Blog, 25/52

This week’s video goes over the single leg RDL with the landmine. After the lesson we jump into a little training footage before showing off the bowling skills of our BSP NOVA members, from this weekend’s event at Bowl America!

June 21, 2017

It’s Ok if the First Rep Sucks

News flash—you’re not perfect. And guess what? No reasonable person expects you to be, no matter the situation. You are, with absolute certainty, going to make mistakes in every realm of your life. And that’s totally cool. In fact, it’s a good thing. It gives you the context you need to learn how to do...

June 18, 2017

Weekly Video Blog 24/52

Easily the most lighthearted video blog we’ve ever done, but the footage of Tyler Stevenson could cheer up ANYONE—I dare you to watch and not smile/laugh/feel great… This week’s video also goes over the inverted row, simplifying the movement and providing some information that will carry over into all of your rowing variations. Enjoy! Ready...

June 14, 2017

How to Warm Up With Weights

In last week’s blog we outlined 5 Reasons to Warm-up With Weights. Today, we’re going to expand on warming up and give you a strategy for your weight warm-up—and answer some warm-up FAQs. Ok, let’s dance. . It Begins with RPE Last week we gave a brief description of RPE, or Rate of...

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