Upper Body Work – Attainable Growth

Improve your Mobility with “The World’s Greatest Stretch”!

If you take a quick poll of your average jane or joe that gets their sweat on at your local gym, and you were to ask them if they’ve heard of the World’s Greatest Stretch as a warm up before they got their main workout in, chances are you’ll hear crickets. Their warm up would…

Stiff Spine? Try These on For Size! (Part IV)

Hey all, I wanted to you today starting where we left off with our series on loosening up your stiff spine. If you missed out, here are the last 3 parts: PART I PART II PART III In Part I and Part II, we talked about Type I and Type II arm driver progressions, respectively, and…

Functional Cardio Commentary

I wanted to discuss one of my favorite fitness videos on Youtube. In it, Paul Chek crushes a functional cardio circuit. I’ve spoken about Paul before, as he has been a big name in the strength, rehabilitation and conditioning industry for the past 30 years, working with many high level athletes, individuals riddled with disease and…

Stiff Spine? Try These on for Size! (part III)

I hope the week is going well for you. We’re continuing on with our series on how we can loosen things up in your stiff spine to relieve tightness. If you missed out on the first 2 parts, you can read about them HERE for Part 1, and HERE for Part 2. For today, I…

Stiff Spine? Try these on for size! (Part II)

Welcome back for Part II of our series on some steps you can take to loosen up your stiff spine. So, last time we covered Type I motion for your stiff spine, and if you missed out on it, you can check it out here. So you saw Type I motion yesterday. This is characterized by rotation…

Stiff Spine? Try these on for size!

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and a good day today. I wanted to start a new series on ways you can loosen up your stiff spine, which will get your body primed for a solid workout. These are some of the movement progressions I learned during my time working through…

Shoulders hurt or injured? No problem.

Let’s face it: shoulders get injured, and it sucks. Fortunately, in most cases, there is so much you can do to improve how they feel and perform. I’ve had my fair share of problems keeping my shoulders healthy over the years. Chronic dislocations while playing football in high school and 4 years of rugby in…