BLUF: Stay hydrated for maximum wellness and performance in The Lab and Life! Many of us are fully-acquainted with the concept of “drinking enough water.” We won’t dive-in (pun intended) to the discussion of how much is enough/not enough/too much. Rather, let’s discuss what’s happening to us
Read more →Simple Chicken Dinner Recipe
Hope everyone’s had a great week. While we’re all still digesting the quantity/quality quandary from the nutrinformational segment from last week, let’s see what we can cook up for a balanced meal for this weekend (also a relatively easy meal-prep dish): “Simple Chicken Dinner”: Protein: Palm(of your
Read more →Quality vs. Quantity (aka, Cheeseburger vs. Fasting)
Hey DCL. Hope everyone’s had a fantastically sugar-free couple of weeks since we last touched base! Today’s nutrinformation bit revolves around a topic some (me) are pretty good at sucking at, and that’s the conundrum of how much to eat versus what to eat. With “intermittent fasting” and “counting
Read more →Why a 1RM Doesn’t always Mean a New personal record
“Don’t have $100 shoes and a 10 cent squat” Let’s face it, no one likes to do volume work. No one likes to do heavy weights for multiple reps. We all just want to get straight to the point and go for a new
Read more →The Process
“Find your weaknesses, make friends with them, then beat them to death” This is one of my favorite quotes. Weaknesses are building blocks to our lives. Every weakness defeated is one step closer to our goals. That goal can be anything from a 700# back
Read more →Kids Need to Get Out and Play
Well it’s summertime again and just like in previous years, parents are racing around town trying to get from one child’s practice to the next. This is a great thing, although maybe not for a parent’s sanity. As we enter this summer my warning to
Read more →Training against the Whiteboard
I can’t believe it has taken me this long to write a blog on this topic: the mentality of many CrossFit athletes. I am not attacking the sport aspect of CrossFit, this is my sport after all. Too often, however, we see athletes that will sacrifice everything
Read more →Today’s blog is going to talk about youth athletes and how they should train for “sport”. Let’s talk about what I mean by “sport”. Sport is referring to any specific sport weather that be football, baseball, soccer, etc. Now let’s talk about what I mean by “youth
Read more →Breathe People…Breathe!! Proper Breathing Mechanics for Weightlifting and Metabolic Conditioning Dcl Blog #3 – February 17, 2016You have to breathe!!! From the day we are born, we have involuntary muscle movements. Our body is born knowing how to do certain things. It knows how to pump blood
Read more →Importance of box jumps in explosive training. Matt Biolsi DCL Blog #2 It’s time to clear up some misconceptions of explosive training. Lately, I’ve been working with a couple of rugby athletes and they were asking me to help improve their “explosive power”. Even though I
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