What is your favorite way to be active (what types of sports have you participated in)? When/how did you get into lifting? When did you start competing? As a child I was into swimming, equestrian dressage/riding and judo. Later in life I started running, light lifting...
0%. Null. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. The September 2015 issue of Men’s Health proclaimed this is the amount of “measurable change in people’s strength when they lifted weights” while wearing kinesiology tape.[1] We’ve been telling people the same thing since the first...
Most people don’t think of strength training as a necessary part of being a better runner, but it is an important routine to get into for anyone putting miles on their shoes. The stigma against strength training for runners has always been twofold: first, that to be a...
People who put heavy weights onto a barbell have a love/hate relationship with the hook grip. On the plus side, the hook grip gives you a rock-solid grip and allows you to lift a lot of weight without having to death grip the bar. On the other side of the coin, you...
