Introducing the Coptercast In 2003, I went to a conference up in Toronto known as the S.W.I.S. Symposium. I didn’t know it at the time, but when I went to one of the talks featuring Dr. John Berardi, I was witnessing the very beginning of Precision Nutrition....
When I was in middle school, I used to walk to the local bookstore and pick up the latest copy of FLEX magazine every month without fail. I was a teenager, so my motivation was pretty simple: I wanted to learn how to get big arms and six pack abs to impress the girls....
I want to share a quick story with you that will help explain why so many people do endless intervals and high-intensity workouts and yet never really have the conditioning they should… A few years ago, I was in NYC doing a workshop for a group of trainers at...
When it comes to interval training, just about everyone out there has an opinion on the best way to do them. What most people agree on, however, is that key to getting the most out of interval training is intensity – it’s usually called high-intensity interval...
When I was in college and first getting into the strength and conditioning field, I was obsessed with trying to get stronger. I read almost anything I could find that promised to help me do that in the shortest time possible. Somewhere in that process, I stumbled upon...
One of the all-time great wrestling coaches, Karl Gotch, once remarked that “Conditioning is your hold,” meaning that great conditioning can be a powerful weapon against your opponents. But what if you’re not training for an opponent? What if you just want to look...