How to Sleep Better for Bigger Gains Here’s the cold, hard truth: If you don’t sleep 7+ hours a night on a regular basis, your health, fitness, and performance are SUFFERING. These five strategies help you get the quality Z’s you need to improve your fitness and...
Stress Management for Athletes If you love to train, chances are you’ve run into this issue: how do I manage my stress — good and bad — so I can keep making gains? Am I over-training? Under-training? How do I keep track? Joshua Walters is a sports PT and USAW-L1...
Using Bodybuilding Methodology for Injury Rehab As most athletes know, injuries come with the job description. Working with a physical therapist can make all the difference in the world. But did you know some bodybuilding training concepts make for excellent...
Understanding HRV Trends: A Beginner’s Guide HRV is among the buzzy fitness metrics to surface with wearable tech in recent years, but there are good reasons — understanding your heart rate variability in the context of your nervous system is a huge indicator of...
Why Strength Training Belongs in Your Rehab Athletic injuries are common, but too often the physical therapy world falls short for active individuals. Why should you be working on progressively loading your tissues in a rehab setting and what kinds of exercises are...
The Best Mobility Exercises & Tools for Weightlifting With the amount of hip-hinging weightlifters and strength athletes do, a tight posterior chain can spell doom for a day at the gym. Missed lifts, poor mobility, pinched nerves, and muscle strains do not a...
