FITNESS ARTICLES
Conditioning
What is Plyometric Training: 7 Exercises for Building Power
Plyometric training, also referred to as jump training, focuses on movements that force the muscle to stretch and quickly contract, producing a powerful and forceful movement in one direction.
Plyo...
Conditioning
What is Rucking?
Regardless of which branch of the military you’re thinking about joining, I guarantee that you’ll have to get very comfortable with rucking.
One of the most common forms of physical fitness trainin...
Nutrition
The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
If your goal is to get lean, especially before entering basic training, I guarantee you’ve come across the term “intermittent fasting” no less than a dozen times.
Intermittent fasting or IF has mad...
Bodyweight
Pushups: How to Improve your Numbers
Before hitting the weights and getting underneath a barbell became the norm, there was push-ups.
Push-ups are one of the classic foundational or compound exercises of fitness.
Targeting your entire...
Kettlebell
The Best Full Body Exercise: The Farmer's Walk
Have you ever seen a guy holding two huge dumbbells and aimlessly walking around the gym floor?
You can see that he’s not trying to find the weight rack to put the dumbbells back, so what is he doi...
Mobility
The Best Warm Up Exercises to do Before a Workout
You’re already running late but you want to get in a workout before you head home. Probably no big deal to skip the warm-up and jump right into your workout, right?
Not a good idea.
Warming up ...
Mindset
Military Mindset: 5 Ways to Build Mental Toughness
You can’t jump on Facebook or YouTube without seeing someone talk about “the hustle.”
Working 100 hours per week, hitting the gym fives times a day, and running seven companies.They talk about it l...
Nutrition
BEGIN EATING HEALTHY WITH 4 EASY DIET CHANGES
Nutrition is often portrayed as a very complicated subject. While it's true that nutrition science IS a vast and ever-evolving topic, healthy eating is simple when you make small changes to your di...
Mindset
THREE BOOKS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ TO DOMINATE LIFE
Reading books is a fantastic way to open our mind to new ideas and concepts. However, books don’t become powerful until that knowledge is applied. In this article I want to share with you 3 powerfu...