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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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,...Read More

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...Read More