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Are You Recovering, Or Are You Just Resting?

We’ve been working on this post for a while, but Life got in the way. (Alternate story: Dallas is better at starting projects than finishing them.)  Nonetheless, we’d like to talk about recovery. No, not economic recovery—though that would be lovely—but physiological recovery from the stressors placed upon us by our modern physical world. Rest [...]

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The Whole9 Five Movement Series: Part 3

Note: This is the third installation in a 3-part series. If you haven’t read the first two parts, read them here and here before continuing. We brought together 12 fitness experts from a broad range of backgrounds–with bodies of experience ranging from weightlifting to track and field to mixed martial arts, and over two centuries [...]

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The Whole9 Five Movement Series: Part 2

On Monday, we kicked off Part 1 of our 3-part series on the top five foundational movements for health, featuring Dan John, Eric Cressey, Rob MacDonald, Michael Rutherford, James Fitzgerald, and our own Dallas Hartwig. Today, we feature six more strength and conditioning coaches and athletes, and ask them the same question: If you could [...]

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The Whole9 Five Movements Series: Part 1

If you could only perform five exercise movements for the rest of your life, which five would you do? This was the question we recently posed to twelve of the most widely respected fitness experts and strength and conditioning coaches – assuming their clients’ goals were general health, fitness and longevity (and not a specialized [...]

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Sleep: An Undervalued Ergogenic Aid

In February 2011, Dallas wrote an article for Performance Menu, the “journal of nutrition and athletic excellence” published each month by Greg Everett of Catalyst Athletics.  The article focused on the impact of sleep (or lack thereof) on your health and athletic performance. Today, thanks to the generosity of Catalyst Athletics, today we are offering [...]

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The Question

“We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” CrossFit Albuquerque. The Question comes in many forms. It is always different, yet universally the same. [...]

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Context Matters: Additional Factors

Definition aside, in simple terms, “context” means the general story of your life, past and present – everything that makes up your big-picture health and fitness. A good place to start evaluating your own context [...]

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The Whole9 Health Equation

We’re calling this graphical representation of an individual’s overall health “The Whole9 Health Equation” (at least until we have a stroke of genius and come up with something clever-er). Yes, it is simplified – Dallas doesn’t like complex math equations.[...]

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Yoga for the Type-A

In yoga, there are two kinds of positions. The first requires strength to hold the pose. The second requires you to soften and yield. I suck at softening. [...]

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The 400,000 Hour Body

We get a lot of questions about products, services and protocols that promise miraculous results – improved body composition, fitness, energy or health – with minimal effort. This slant is not new – the lure of a shortcut [...]

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