When athletes are traveling or stuck in quarantine because of businesses being shut down and don’t have any access to a gym to train, athletes need to rely on their bodyweight to get the fitness, power and strength things done. World class athletes travel for competition, business and various other opportunities to build their personal brand. All athletes are dealing with the real world implications of not being able to access gyms because of business closures...

For the last year, the entire world has been dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone across the world is dealing with consequences from this disease. Businesses have been shut down, people have been unable to pay bills and forced out of homes and, worst of all, many people have lost their lives and loved ones. Other consequences, of lesser importance, is that gyms may not be open where people are living, people can’t buy gym equipment, pay the gym membership or purchase gym equipment to work at home...

Here in the good ole US of A, the whole world for that matter, we have had to deal with the pandemic, stay-at-home orders and quarantine as a measure to slow the spread of the coronavirus. For us in the sports performance, weightlifting and fitness worlds, it has put us outside of our gyms, health sanctuaries and better athletic development centers to get things done...

You’re a big guy. You’re tall, you got some girth, you’re thick and you love pancakes (both on the field and in your belly). Thing is, you move like the molasses being poured all over those pancakes on a Sunday morning. That isn’t good. That isn’t ideal. You need to move like the butter sizzling on the skillet. You need that speed to take you to the next level....

Football is a game of inches. Each down is won or loss based off of every small detail and precise execution. This creates a very complex system of training. We know that football players need to be explosive, they need to be strong, they need to be fast. These are all key elements behind developing elite players but oftentimes there is a big confusion behind the absolute best way to train for the gridiron. Should football players do big squats? Is there a point in them even bench pressing? Should football players train more like sprinters or more like shot putters?