coaching How hard should your workout be? Don't work yourself out all the time. Don't sit in your comfort zone all the time. Go home feeling stronger than you came in.
coaching The Core, Part 2: Breathing and Bracing A fundamental concept of strength training, explained with metaphors of car tyres and candles. Your output at your gym will go to the next level with this article.
coaching What the heck is the core? What is the core? Is it a specific body part? Like the lats or biceps or whatever? Does it refer to the abs? Then why wouldn't we just say abs?!
discussion 3 clarifications The larger point I do want to make is that this blog is simply one path of what can work for you. For people of a similar wavelength, there are things you can pick from here. For others, not much will be relevant or be in sync.
strength training 3 questions on strength training Will strength training make you bulky? Will it help with fat loss? Let's find out.
framework lift more next week than you did this week In one year, you will be squatting 270 kilos. In two years, you will have the world record in your sights. In three years...
crossfit the exploding fitness industry and the opportunity cult.fit will open the door. For millions and millions of people to take that first step. Maybe a few of them will stay there for longer, and maybe quite a few will move on. That's okay.
coaching do we strength train to the exclusion of everything else? Strength work need not be done to the exclusion of everything else. But done smartly, if you are struggling for bandwidth, it is a good one-stop shop.
coaching on skill work and exponential progress Skill work is fun. You immerse yourself in the process, constantly trying to improve. But without being super critical or an ass to yourself. You try to figure things out, you ask for outside perspective, you assess and see if you are moving in the right direction.
Getting Started on a rite of passage In almost all cultures, we see a traditional ritual or a rite of passage where "boy becomes a man". Whether it is going on a hunt once you turn a certain age, or getting circumcised, or land diving, it signals a huge transitional moment in life.
ArvTraining fixing your posture with 3 alternatives to the pushup You sit all day. You are hunched over. These are given. Wouldn't it be awesome if you could do a movement that gets you stronger AND improves your posture? As well as improves your breathing, your core too.
fat loss the limitations of others' dreams The "I want to look this way" is just the start of what fitness can do for you, not the end. Dive in and discover how your mind and body explodes, if you will let it.
diet 3 popular misconceptions Having the wrong mental model about a concept causes us to act on it poorly. Let's get you sorted on intermittent fasting, a training layoff and sleep deficit so that you don't make those mistakes.
coaching when I say "strength training", you are thinking "bodybuilding" Bodybuilding is a sport where the goal is to have big, showy muscles. Just like how cricket and American football are two completely different activities - so is strength training and bodybuilding.
coaching how strong should one aim to be? For regular folks like us, it is never going to come down to "Add 10 kilos to your bench press numbers and see your discus fly further" or any such thing. From the world of weights, we are looking for general physical preparation (GPP). We want to be able to do most things that life throws at us
coaching on failing Starting Strength (and why it was amazing) I went in to learn and getting a certification would've been a bonus. While it was still a huge hit to the ego when I realised I failed, I quickly realised I knew diddly-squat to have an ego in this and had amongst the best weekends I've ever had.
origin stories on 9 years of The Quad Raj and I ran our first-ever class at The Quad on Sep 19, 2011. The 9 years since have been a period of personal growth, of figuring things out, of trying to stick to our guns and doing things our way, of making silly mistakes.
coaching training is not isolated from life One of my students, let's call them Neil, sent me their numbers (training log) for the day and was comparing it to something from a few weeks back, remarking that it had taken them the past few weeks "to get back to square one".
coaching a base strength standard If I could tell myself to be at a certain level while starting off CrossFit, here's what I would set. I think being able to do these means you are reasonably along with the fundamentals, and can do whatever you fancy on top of this.
coaching don't think. feel. Think of any skill you have. Let's take driving - shift down a gear, while pressing the clutch and steering the vehicle while continuing the conversation you are having. If we have to think and communicate, it will take far too long. Instead, it is a pattern ingrained in us by practice.
original strength Original Strength Sometime in 2012, I heard about Original Strength from one of Coach Dan John's books. The word crawl immediately clicked in my head, and I was reading the book the next day. And it just made sense. I need things to click before I
guilt Guilt and the uselessness of it Listen to your body is preached by me to all my students. We need to be aware of what our body is telling us. If we are generally the type to love going to the gym to train, and are finding ourselves lacking motivation
strength training Simple to Complex Think about how we learned to talk. We learned to make sounds. We learned the A-B-C. We learned words. We heard a lot of people say stuff. We made sentences. We made a lot of mistakes. And we learned to talk, eventually. It goes
