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How to Deadlift Over 700 Pounds Eager to pull big numbers? You're more likely to make mistakes that'll bring your max down. Here's what to do... and what not to do. During my years of competitive powerlifting, the deadlift was my nemesis. I hated it, mainly because I sucked at it. I had terrible...

The Truth About CrossFit Workouts, If You Can Handle It Many CrossFit women can lift a ton of weight while sporting six-pack abs without dieting. Sound like you? Probably not. Here's why. Crossfit Women Saved Female Fitness Has anything advanced female fitness more than CrossFit? Nope. If you've...

Plateau-Busting Training Methods When you first start lifting, just about anything works. But when you hit a plateau, it's time to bust out these methods to build muscle. Few things are as frustrating as hitting a training plateau. With even the slightest whiff of stagnation, most lifters scour...

The Best of the Basics Follow these simple rules for a high-performance, bulletproof physique. Building a strong, lean, and athletic physique isn’t complicated. It requires focusing on a set of time-tested principles to help you optimize performance and longevity. Secrets? There are none. The...

In the first two phases of the program, the focus was on strength and power. Now it’s time to hit the mirror muscles and get the look too. Mirror Time! For the past two months of our Beast Building program, we’ve been focusing mostly on strengthening the nervous system and the muscles, at the...

I didn’t realize how much mobility training mattered until it was too late. I was standing over a heavily loaded barbell, ready to tackle a Sumo deadlift, thinking I had all my bases covered. But as I bent down, my lower back rounded because my hips lacked the mobility to hinge properly, and as...

Known to friends, family, and those on the triathlon circuit as “The Quad Father,” meet Nick Tierney; a 46-year-old athlete from Delaware, OH. Tierney is no stranger to overcoming challenges both on and off the course. And despite a hectic home life with a loving wife and four kids, he’s never...

While “buddy” or “pal” is a popular term for North Americans to call their friends and comrades, the word “mate” has been missing in action despite its immense popularity in other English-speaking lands like Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. One man: Luke Milton, is changing the...

Flywheel training has gained serious momentum in the fitness world, especially among athletes looking to maximize performance and injury prevention. It’s a powerful tool for anyone who wants to develop strength, power, and explosiveness while challenging the body in ways that traditional...

Super Growth and Recovery Strategy I've found nothing that works better than Neural Charge Training at increasing the rate of gains and enhancing recovery. You want to experience that? Here's how. Simply put, I build high-performance muscle mass on athletes. I don’t care if you’re a CrossFit...

How to build High-Performance Mass Building muscle size, strength, and explosive power – as a single strategy – produces the absolute best gains, period! Here's how. I have to admit that when I’m out in public I think of myself as looking powerful, like a bodybuilder. But on the other hand, I...

If a fitness feature is going to share a story of a man that lost 100 pounds, it would usually be about celebration and triumph. Dan Kalbfleisch, better known to the sumo wrestling community as “Sumo Dan,” has done just that, but there isn’t as much celebrating going on as you might expect when...

Dr Meghan Santa Barbara is not just an IFBB Pro, but is also a nutrition consultant and bodybuilding prep coach. As such, she informs her almost 80,000 Instagram followers with a mixture of hard-earned gym knowledge along with the science to back it up. Recently, the popular PT took to social...

Time is the number one excuse for not getting a workout, outside of laziness. But here’s the thing: your gains don’t care about excuses—they care about action. And that’s where this 15-minute density training workout comes in. It is designed for those who lack time but want serious results...

By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner of Advanced Wellness Each of these topics deserve their own blog post. That being said, I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t at least mention them here. Electrical Stimulation Electrical stimulation uses electrodes that are connected to or around the injured site...

By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner at Advanced Wellness “Personal training” traditionally refers to one-on-one training, one coach to one trainee. However, personalized training can have many of the same benefits as personal training as well as actually adding a few more! Personalized training is...

By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner of Advanced Wellness In this 3-part series, we have reviewed: Part 1: The Essentials of Good Conditioning Part 2: Getting Technical: Tying Fitness Goals to Conditioning Approaches & Metrics Here in Part 3, we discuss strategies for training using various energy...

Conditioning is the process of introducing, accustoming, training, and tolerating new physical characteristics or states; broadly speaking, conditioning is making those seeking to be more fit, BETTER! In this 3-part series, we review: Part 1: The Essentials of Good Conditioning Part 2...

What many people don’t realize about hypertrophy is that it’s basically isolated conditioning, supplemented by higher caloric intake to make muscles grow. In most movements in the gym, muscles often benefit from increasing work capacity and overall cumulative volume, to ultimately fully fatigue...

Home Gyms Beat Commercial Gyms Stop depending on a commercial gym. Here's why you need to build a simple home gym and how to do it. Build a quality home gym and you’ll never go back to a commercial gym. Not just because it’s more practical, but because you’ll get even BETTER results. The...