I’ve been fortunate to have been a *mildly* successful professional golfer (eight wins in about 8 seasons). This on the heels of a (I’ll say it) slightly more successful collegiate career (lowest single season scoring average in Rice University history), which also followed an acceptable junior golf career. I also now work with a handful of professional golfers, a good number of collegiate golfers and about a half dozen very competitive junior golfers. So please hear me when

Pull-ups are tricky. And by tricky I mean quite difficult. And by quite difficult I mean get butchered as frequently as Quentin Tarantino has someone executed in his films. (Butchered= executed... right? Right?!!! #pun) As someone who loves pull-ups, and thinks they are absolutely fantastic at developing pure upper body strength, this is troublesome to me. So I present to you an alternative form of pull-up to help us along the way to perfect form. They can be considered a reg

There are a handful of exercises that people think are simple, but aren’t, and that they can do, but probably can‘t. Enter push-ups stage right. “Not me!” you say? Let’s dive in. Every January (and then with another spike as summer arrives) people start saying they need to get in shape, or at least get after that beach body, finally.This inevitably leads to going for a run and adding in some push-ups and crunches and whatever else some internet celebrity said to do. Which inv

This will be a *fairly* limited-in-technical-jargon commentary on why continual stretching doesn’t produce lasting effects. Most people I see and train usually come in complaining about “tightness”, particularly in the beginning. They then tell me they know what they need, “more core and more stretching”, probably because some magazine or television personality told them this was the super secret key. Besides ultimately shifting blame to your work ethic or discipline, which I