Quick Sessions

Hip Dysplasia is rare, but when you are born with it, you could be dealing with a ticking time bomb. Learn a little bit about it here, on Quick Sessions.

Why is jumping always getting tested, even when the sport doesn't necessarily call for the skill? I have an answer for you. 

"I did x for x reps so my 1RM is x" is a statment I hear way too often. I know people are just getting excited about potentially imprvoving, but this is a very flawed way of figuring out a max and can lead to so big disapointments.

Dihydroepiandrosterone. An important precursor hormone and highest circulating steroid in the body.

Quads are great, but are they actually important for golfing?

Which is the right way to eat? People are asking, we'll see if they're listening. 

Hip training. You are probably doing some anyway, but don't forget to put an emphasis on it. This helps with EVERYTHING!!

Orthorexia is the unoffcial term for an eating disorder where the person changes their diet and becomes obsessed with the new "healthy" choices. It comes in many different forms, and is very real, but it varies in degree seriousness which it why it is over looked until it develops into something worse.

When you're going for a max, amping up the weights and dropping the reps is normal, and will normally prepare you for what the end goal ultimately is. But what happens when the same ole thing doesn't work? I've been there, and I've gotten past it. Check it out.

Bench press coming off flat? This episode I'm telling you about the most common flaws in technique that I see on a regular basis. 

The amount of ankle mobility information out there is getting a bit out of control. Self-improving fads like this drive me nuts because to creates a ton of wasted time in the gym, builds in excuses, and takes attention away from the the rel problem is (whatever that happens to be). 

Knee instability plagues everyone as get banged up, or just get older. It is something that NEEDS to become part of your routine as soon as you start experiencing ANY decline in knee function.

Don't let bench press ruin your bench press. You're not 16 anymore, take care of your body when preparing to push the limits with your bench. Hear me out.

Sore shoulder? inflamed? Strained? All these injuries are annoying, but it doesn't mean you have to put shoulder training on the shelf. I got some ideas. Check it out.

The Carnivore Diet is hotttttt right now. I explain the basics and give my opinion. 

Covering some news in the fitness world. Chris Doyle officially canned, Ronnie Coleman videos making their rounds, and WSM Brian Shaw is a hero. Thanks for listening.

We talk squats. Well done article explaining answers to the questions that get asked about squatting.

Iowa Strength Coach Chris Doyle in hot water over some alleged racially insensitive comments.

Weighted baseballs are being used more and more to help strengthen and condition young arms. Does it work? Is it worth it? We discuss.

Episode 100! I'm ditching the intro music and discussing the benefits of training eccentrically for rehab and for general joint stabilization. Thank you all for listening and these next hundred sound be even smoother than the first.

World record deadlift and the match to be!

Back in the gym after two months. Many trainers attempted different ways of doing things during the 2 month break and i touch on that and more in Episode 97.

Home workouts aren't really something I spend a lot of time worrying about, for a couple reason, and in this podcast I talk about why that is and how I think your time is best spent getting in your physical fitness during a quarantine.

Samford University, with Champion Sports Medicine, erases non-contact ACL injuries by recognizing deficiencies and fixing them through Champion's ACL prevention program.

Scott Cochran leaves the ranks of the Strength & Conditioning world to take a position as the special teams coach at the University of Georgia.

Antioxidants. You've heard of them, and you know they are good for you. But Why? I've got some answers for you in this episode of Quick Sessions. Sorry for the background noise. Busy day at the office.

Many say it can't be done. Well....I don't buy it. We will discuss my side of this argument and ways I feel you can overcome the dilemma of "You can't gain muscle and lose weight at the same time".

Dr. Robert Lustig leads a presentation on fructose being the leading factor in the rise of obesity across the world. Title Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0, is a long one, but a good one. This episode is a summary of that lecture.

Pull-ups. They can be done several different ways, but this month 500 Dead Hang pull-ups was the goal. This inspired me to breakdown this king of body weight movement on the 90th episode of QS.

I don't know who started this rumor that if women lift weights they will get bulky, but whoever did has single-handedly pulled off the greatest spread of misinformation in fitness history.

Unilateral Training is an often overlooked aspect of developing young athletes and regular joes alike. Here's Why.

Cluster sets are a way of lifting near maximal weight for a volume higher than you would normally program into your routine. Be warned, this is not for the beginners though.

Cold Water Immersion, or ice baths, are a popular process people partake in with the goal of muscle recovery, among other thing. Good? Bad? Pointless? Check it out!

When you start to get into the rep range and weight necessary to increase strength and power, continuously improving becomes a matter of the relative intensity you can maintain through your sets.

Pumping Iron is a documentary featuring #arnoldschwarzenegger and other elite bodybuilders on there way to the 1975 Mr. Olympia.

New school vs the old school. What changing times mean to the profession of leading people in there fitness journeys.

Reading about this 9 year old power lifter in Louisiana got me thinking about individuals with a mutated myostatin gene. This rare condition has no negative side effects (that we know of), so it is a very interesting topic that, if it could be manipulated by scientists, could bring about this super-hero-esq human, in theory, of course.

We wrap up the 3 part series on Intermittent Fasting

Part 2 of our discussion on the NEJM Review Article on Intermittent Fasting, this time covering clinical results and effective adaptation in the bodies of humans and (mostly) animals.

Part 1 of my 3 part (maybe 4) series on Intermittent Fasting as researched by tons of doctors and reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine. This episode focuses on the effects of the fasting diet on a cellular level.

Resistance Bands have become and increasingly popular in fitness, but I'm not sure I am sold. In this episode I breakdown the pros and cons of training with resistance bands as I see it.

My thoughts on the Netflix documentary sweeping the nation.

Cool experiment performed at Logan university in the health and science department measuring the velocities of men and women of the front squat, back squat, conventional deadlift and sumo deadlift.

Velocity Based Training is a workout method focusing on creating the greatest level of speed and explosion on the upward phase of your lift. This is awesome for increasing your explosiveness and using it as a tool to figure out your max weight so that you know which loads to use for X amount of reps gives you ton of help when it comes to efficiency. 

The Warm-up. The most underappreciated, taken-for-granted part of the workout that is often given as much thought as which plain-white towel you’re going to wipe your sweat with. The warm-up though, which you learn as you age, is truly the first brick to be laid down for this proverbial wall we are calling a workout. The base of anything can make or break a day, and the older I get, the more necessary a proper warm-up has become.

Deadlifts aren’t just for the powerlifters anymore. This exercise has been a staple for anyone who has ever stepped in a weight room with the goal of becoming their strongest selves, but with the growing demographic of people working out, the deadlift has adapted, and I don’t just mean in variation, but in volume of usage. So, who can benefit from the deadlift and why?

Not everyone is in to New Year's resolutions, but I am, and they don't need to be over complicated or extremely complex. Just a few small changes can make a world of difference.

How do we keep the clients who have figured out this whole working on thing engaged going forward? Well I have some ideas, which I put into practice.

The world’s top antidoping authority on Monday banished Russia from international competition — including next summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo — for four years, the latest and most severe punishment yet connected to a years long cheating scheme. Under the ban, Russia’s flag, name and anthem would not be allowed at the Tokyo Games next summer or the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, though the competitive effects may be minimal: Russian athletes not implicated in doping are expected to be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other world championships, but only under a neutral flag. So how did this all happen?

We discuss the link between steroids and depression.

Microbiome, specifically the kind that live in your gut, are complex systems of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and a few other things that help with vitamin absorption, food processing, energy storage, and can even affect your mood and fat stores. How do we even control these 4 trillion little biomes? Diet, of course. Check it out!