Results For Category: "Exercise Technique Coaching"

Burn Your Bra, 2011

  Ladies, please: you’re smarter than this. You’re the tougher sex. You can handle pain, stress, mess; and you can do it…

Why We Have Rules

There was a time, not so long ago, when we abhorred rules. We were the fitness counter-culture (still are!) and rules and…

How To Start Exercising

or, “How To Buy A Map.”  Over the next few weeks, you’re going to hear a lot about “special offers!” and “we’ll…

Purposeful Practice

By now, you’ve likely heard of the 10,000 hours effect. Posited by Malcolm Gladwell in his terrific book, Outliers, the 10,000-hour-rule suggests…

The 2010 Apprenticeship Program

In 1998, after finishing University, I  started my education. With a degree under my belt, I was still young enough to believe…

April OnRamp Group

Spring is all about change.  It’s about second chances – or third, fourth, and fifth chances.  Yes, when the snow melts, there’s…

Are Kipping Pullups Cheating?

This:                                                                                    is not this: ….absolutely true.  CrossFit is frequently the target of derision among those who haven’t done a WOD.  Without a…

SUPERMEET 2009 – Official Rules

It's time to lift weights.   In our original SUPERMEET post, we laid out the ground rules: You have exactly 3 hours…

Technique V Intensity

 These things we do – these lifts, these jumps, these pulls, these games – they're hard.   They're hard because we do…

Your Guide To Barbells at Catalyst

YOUR GUIDE TO BARBELLS AT CATALYST 55lbs Hampton Bars – very stiff, fat diameter, great for deadlifting, pressing, and squatting. Knurling is…