• 02AUG, 2018
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    What’s the Big Deal About Self-Care?

    What’s the Big Deal About Self-Care?

    Today’s guest post comes from Brad Krause. Brad is the creator of SelfCaring.info – a website designed to help people improve their self-care practices and wellbeing. Enjoy! If you feel like you hear about self-care everywhere lately, you’re not alone. But self-care isn’t just a fad, and it isn’t new. “self-care” is just a new

  • 30JUL, 2018
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    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 7/30/2018

    Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day: 7/30/2018

    From a podcast on improving sleep performance to building a consistent online business, and to an article on mindset – there is much covered in this edition of “Things to Read to Help Slay Your Day.”  Strength Coach Podcast – Episode 235: Going Deep on Sleep with Brandon Marcello: Sleep is one variable that I feel doesn’t

  • 27JUL, 2018
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    A Reminder to Not Get Too Comfortable With Your Training

    A Reminder to Not Get Too Comfortable With Your Training

    I was in the gym the other night going through my standard high-intensity interval training (HIIT) treadmill workout. The workout went fine, but, on this night, I decided to switch things up by adding some battle rope HIIT after the treadmill sprints. I got through the battle rope HIIT without any issues up until the last interval. While performing

  • 16JUL, 2018
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    Is There an Absolute Bad Exercise? Why Context Matters

    Is There an Absolute Bad Exercise? Why Context Matters

    Many people will often develop beliefs that a “specific” exercise is bad and that they should “never” perform it. Sometimes these beliefs end up becoming extreme and to the point where they are falsely rooted. For example, you will often hear people say: “Don’t do deadlifts; they are bad for your low back.” or… “Don’t deep

  • 12JUL, 2018
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    7 Reasons Why I Write a Health & Fitness Blog

    7 Reasons Why I Write a Health & Fitness Blog

    A little over three years ago, I started blogging through my website and vlogging on youtube my experiences dealing with lower back pain, my love for the field of strength & conditioning, and my journey through my master’s degree. All of this to date is represented in 220 blogs posts and over 280 youtube videos.

  • 09JUL, 2018
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    Spondylolysis & Hockey Athletes

    Spondylolysis & Hockey Athletes

    To follow up my previous post on lumbar disc herniation’s in hockey players, I thought it would only be fitting to talk about another common lower back injury in hockey players, which is spondylolysis. While not as common as lumbar disc herniation’s in hockey players, spondylolysis is still an injury that is relatively common and can cause