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...Read More

We all want to walk out of the gym feeling like we’ve accomplished something, and sometimes that something is feeling like we got our ass kicked. You know the workouts we’re talking about—the ones that tested your will, left a puddle of your sweat on the floor, and had you bargaining with yourself whether or...Read More

“I don’t know what this is, but I know this is what my son needs right now.  Is this strength and conditioning?” A father recently asked this question as he stood with coach Chris, watching his son’s first full training session here at Beyond Strength Performance NOVA, LLC.  His son wasn’t doing the “traditional” strength...Read More

Every time I here the slogan, “Train Like A Pro,” I cringe- as it usually involves an athlete trying to attempt some advanced jump when they can barely land correctly, or a soccer player attempting a very complex “trick,” or skills, when they have a hard time skipping with proper form.   I think to...Read More

In this final installment of our three-part conditioning series, we are going to discuss cardiac output training, or easy weekend training as we’ve deemed it in-house.  As we laid out in parts one and two, we can’t go hard every day.  While a high-intensity-all-the-time approach might elicit some positive changes on the front end, it...Read More

Change is hard—that’s why people have a difficult time doing it.  Life is busy, our time is limited, and 1,000 different things are pulling us in 1,000,000 different directions.  It’s tough to keep on the path toward progress while also managing the craziness of our everyday lives.  That’s the reality we’re faced with as modern...Read More

Here’s something you’ll find easy to believe: most fitness marketing doesn’t tell you the whole truth—shocker, right? From As Seen on TV gadgets, to hyper-fast fat loss advertisements from the new gym around the corner, to detox programs, we are inundated with information that tells us that transformation is low-effort if we only do what...Read More

When it comes to conditioning, there’s been a concerning trend in the personal and group training world over the last few years: more is better, and harder is best.  Conditioning has been approached with a mindset of, “If you’re not dead after every workout, what was it for?” And while that might be okay every...Read More

I know what you’re thinking- that this title was just to grab your attention- and that may be so, but there’s absolute truth to it.  We want you to take the laziest approach to being incredibly fit, which you may know this as the minimum effective dose, and we can show you how. What are...Read More

[Pictures of the new gym at the end!] Today we start with a story- a true story that happened recently, right here at BSP NOVA.  But first, a little background info… Every time a member finishes a semi-private training phase, we have a brief discussion to see where their head is at.  That discussion typically...Read More