Random Friday Thoughts: 1/23/09
1. It's come to my attention that over 54 million people have come to recognize this young YouTube guitar dude as a total bada**, so it seemed only fitting that he be today's music selection: Had I not won the [...]
What I Learned in 2008
In what has become a yearly tradition, it's now time for this year's installment of What I Learned. As always, I learned a ton, but here are a few that stuck out in my mind as I sat down to [...]
Stuff You Should Read: 1/22/09
In continuing with a new tradition that began last week, here are some "oldies, but goodies" that ought are definitely worth reads: A Carrot, and Egg, and a Bag of Ground Coffee 300 Pounds on Your Deadlift Eating on the [...]
Maximum Strength Feedback: 1/20/09
I was just checking in on how Maximum Strength is doing over at Amazon, and came across the following five-star customer review. As the reviewer notes, sometimes you need to get outside your comfort zone - both in training and [...]
Baseball and Strength
Free Teleseminar Series at SportsRehabExpert.com I just wanted to give you all a heads-up on a great audio series - Sports Rehab to Sports Performance - that Joe Heiler has pulled together. I'll was interviewed on Friday, and Joe's also [...]
Inverted Row Ignorance
In this week's "The Biggest Loser made me want to stab my eye out with a hot poker" moment, I watched what appeared to be a 1,742-pound woman attempt to do an inverted row. It was an admirable attempt, for [...]
Random Friday Thoughts: 1/16/09
No blog yesterday; things were kind of crazy around CP, and I did a 14-hour day that began with dropping Pete off at the airport at 6:15. The good news is that it allowed me to stockpile some content for [...]
Stuff You Should Read: 1/14/09
This is a random post, but it came about in light of our recent switch to a new hosting company, plus the reorganization of the site. In this drawn-out, mind-numbing, baldness-inducing process, I came to realize that a lot of [...]
Push-ups for Baseball Players
Q: I attended the baseball strength training clinic you gave in Long Island. I have a question for you about push-ups for pitchers. I am using push-ups with all player, and one of the parents has been concerned that push-ups [...]
How The Rhomboids Really Work
I got to talking with an athletic trainer at a recent seminar, and we were discussing how people really don't understand how the rhomboids work. You see, the rhomboids typically get lumped right in with the trapezius complex as scapular [...]
