All the blogs I read have done posts about how not to get fat during Thanksgiving. I follow some really great fitness and nutrition experts, so the posts are all very scientific, well reasoned, and long. But many people have asked my advice about how not to get fat during Thanksgiving, so here's...
In this ongoing series, I post (with permission) actual questions that have landed in my inbox. What should I do for cardio? Whatever you want to be able to do a lot of in a given amount of time. Cardio training is getting your body more effecient at using its fuel systems to produce force over...
As far back as I can remember, my right hip has always turned out. My feet were perpendicular; at 12 and 3 o'clock. I blamed 7 years of fencing, but it never really "bothered" me, because I always did things like squat and swing with a little more external rotation than others and it seemed to work...
I was in New York this week and spent my time going to gyms and seeing how people who go to gyms work out. As you know, I spend most of my time either training my clients outside or training with other fitness nerds. My wife insisted that I go to the gym in her building and train her which opened...
In this ongoing series, I post (with permission) actual questions that have landed in my inbox. What muscle does [that] work? All of them. If you're working with me or doing any of the exercises I've mentioned on this blog, the answer to this question will always be "all of them." The movements I...
Dan John knows about carrying around heavy things. He loves carrying heavy things so much that he slapped a picture of him doing it on his first book. In the snow. With a smile on his face. But the praises for the loaded carry is not limited to strongmen and throwers. Mike Boyle recently talked on...
Meh.In this ongoing series, I post (with permission) actual questions that have landed in my inbox. Can I have a Luna bar? Sure! Wait, you're suffering from being extremely underweight, right? Or you just hiked 2/3 of the Appilachian Trail this weekend? A doctor diagnosed you with hypoglycemia...
I learned the kettlebell swing about two years ago from a guy named Antonio who is carved from marble and has a butt you could rest a beer on. Rightly thinking the swing might have had something to do with that, I have swung a bell almost every day since. Without exaggeration, I have performed the...
Part 1: Tight Chest In this series, we are going to look at the factors that are holding you back. The little fixable things that are making you look less hot than you could be, or in today's case, less hot that you already are. These are the weak points that most sedentary people have which I seek...
As a coach, I think a lot about movement. I write a lot about it, too. A couple of months ago, Dan John clued me in to a model of movement that I love called "The Five Human Movements." I loved it so much that he named a workout after me that used all five. But in hanging out with Dan and the other...
Coach Stevo Fun Fact: I majored in the Philosophy of the scientific method at the Univerisity of Chicago, a school that in 1945, pulled out of the Big 10 Conference because football was too much of a distraction. What did I learn from this eduacation? Science is fun. Ok, football is probably more...
"Bobby, can you do me a favor and stand up? I just wanna make sure you still can."I've written about a lot of healthy habits in the past. Most of them were probably pretty obvious, some of them maybe not so much. Today I want to talk about what might be the most obvious healthy habit of all. You...
courtesy of the New York TimesThis week, the world lost 22 amazing men in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. I didn't know anyone on that helicopter, but I know people who knew too many. This article is dedicated to the memory of what those men accomplished and how you can apply it to accomplishing...
There are very few "laws" in physics. And Newton's Four Laws of Thermodynamics are about a "proven" as science gets. As a big fan of science, I have to tell you that in Coach Stevo's House, we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics. That's because your body is a system like any other in that Newton...
When I was ages 4 to… well now, my favorite fictional character was Batman. Mostly because he is everything I wasn't. Since the death of his parents, Batman has been singularly focused and utterly disciplined. He spends every night doing the same noble, difficult, but boring thing: patrolling the...
There comes a time in any training program when you go off the wagon. There are days when you just can't seem to make it into the gym. There are days when you can't get your meal planning together and you end up at In 'N Out. Suck days happen and they happen to us all. But what separates people who...
With rare exception, what most of my clients want is change. They want to change their body's shape or function. They have a goal, and they come to me to help them attain it. Sometimes they have trouble articulating that goal and they need my help to even work up the courage to say it out loud....
I am lucky enough to have four surviving grandparents, three of whom I visited this week. Two drove 12 hours round trip to spend Father's Day weekend at my parent's house, and the other was in the hospital having emergency surgery. Their age-range is 10 years but their "physical age range" might as...
When I was a Marine Corps officer candidate, I went to a little 3-day taste of Officer Candidate School that was staffed by actual Sergeant Instructors from Quantico. After pick-up and a group run carrying all of our trash, my makeshift platoon was introduced to Gunnery Sergeant Mata. If you speak...
Have you ever gone to a bookstore and looked at how many diet books there are? Have you every wondered why there are so many different exercise programs on the internet? Or why every trainer is an expert in [latest fad workout, body part, etc.]? Well at great risk to my physical well being, I am...