We’ve found ourselves answering very similar concerns from multiple members over the last few weeks.  They’ve been asking questions along the lines of: “Why is it that I lifted this exact weight last week, with no issue at all, and today it feels like there’s a magnet on the floor?!” In short, the weights don’t...Read More

The hinge is arguably the most important pattern for everyone to learn.  The hinge sets us up to RDL, deadlift, swing, clean, bent over row, hit an athletic stance, jump, etc…  Unfortunately, it’s also commonly performed incorrectly. In this week’s video, we present four drills to help dial in your hinge.  Now, you don’t need...Read More

The bent over row is arguably the king of upper body pulling.  It requires a strong hinge, solid core strength, and great body awareness to pull it off successfully.  But, unfortunately, it’s often butchered.  In today’s video we show you how to progress the bent over row with pattern assistance. Fixing the Bent Over Row...Read More

Coffee is everyone’s best friend, amiright?!  Well today I’d like to introduce the coffee of exercise, neural charge training.  Seriously, neural charge training is like caffeine to your central nervous system (CNS), and when used correctly, can do a handful of awesome things: Wake you up Prepare you for heavy strength work Build explosiveness Teach...Read More

Today’s post is a re-run of an article that BSP NOVA superstud, Todd Bumgardner, wrote in 2013 for our old website.  It has continued to be shared and viewed regularly over the years, and with last week’s post, “Do I Need to Get in Shape Before Wokring Out?”, it seemed like an appropriate time to...Read More

In this week’s video we explore a mysterious phenomena happening at Beyond Strength Performance NOVA- thunder in the gym.  To be honest, it’s intermittent, but it happens.  It’s like the gym has it’s own ecosystem.  So we did a little research and found the root cause.  Check out today’s video to see what’s up: Let’s...Read More

In this week’s video we cover four ab exercises that prepare us to perform the ab wheel rollout properly.  Check it out: Let’s Review the Main Points of Building to a Great Ab Wheel Rollout: Use the quadruped cat-cow and quadruped rocking to feel the difference between movement from the spine (cat-cow) vs. movement from...Read More

Whether you’re looking to lose body fat, increase your strength, pack on some muscle, or simply train for health, varying the tempo of your workouts will pay big dividends.  In this week’s post we are going to look at a simple way that we build varied tempos in to every one of our members’ programs....Read More

In this week’s video we cover the 4 must-haves for a great kettlebell swing.  Check it out: Let’s review the 4 Must-Haves for a Great Kettlebell Swing: Use a consistent set-up.  Look it doesn’t need to be the one that we show in the video, but make it the same, every time. Practice the hike. ...Read More

In this week’s video we address a common error with regards to the kettlebell swing- the set up. Live in Northern Virginia and looking to check out Beyond Strength Performance NOVA?Read More