Adam Ringler

I recently read a great book co-wrote by Lance Armstrong titled, "It's Not About the Bike" in which Lance writes about his battle with cancer, the physical and emotional recovery afterwards, and his preparation to compete for the Tour De France.  In his writings, he talked

I've been looking forward to this book for over a year. I had to pick it up on it's first day of being sold." Midway through my long duration morning run, I had to stop at a Barnes and Noble to pick up one of

We're all working towards the same goal; to make healthier and stronger athletes that move better. I was having a conversation the other day regarding scope of practice with a physical therapist friend of mine and we starting talking about limits of our respective practice. This got me

Ten years ago if you were sitting behind a desk being interviewed for a strength and conditioning job, you'd redoubtably would be asked whether your a HIT guy or an Olympic guy. This question would later lead to sworn groups of enemies that had more hatred for each

I absolutely love Nike's new advertising campaign featuring what it means to be a female athlete. Obviously, I'm not a female, but it's just great to see advertising that is going against the grain and providing popular role models and breaking social stigmas surrounding

I cannot begin to express how important it is to measure food out. Maybe it's the scientist in me, maybe it's the geek, I don't know. However, if your serious about getting nutrition in check, then I whole heartily believe that you must approach

The big hit at the Chicago Perform Better seminar was no other than Thomas Myers. He is the author of Anatomy Trains, arguably one of the best anatomy, myofascial, human performance books on the market, and have been practicing for about 35 years. One of the take home messages I

I cannot even begin to express how excited I am for this next project of mine. I know I am being secretive, but I just want to make sure everything materializes before I announce anything. I have been planning this project, announcement, endeavor for a long time and finally I

The Summer of 2008, I made a decision that I wouldn't buy a single text book for Graduate School. While I was obligated to buy one during my last semester of school (only one), I graduated with high honors without purchasing a single text book. How did I

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Greetings Blog Readers! I wanted to take a moment out of my day to talk about the very important issue of recovery. Recovery is often over-looked when it comes to fitness, and is one of the many reasons why people grow tired of working out and lead to burn out.

INTRODUCTION "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do." Jerry Garcia. There is no doubt that within competitive athletics, athletes and coaches alike are always striving to be the

> "You don't realize how important Family/Peer support is until you don't have it." Just a short blurb for today discussing how important a support structure is for your weight loss nutritional goals. Dieting and weight loss is hard enough to do alone

Look, I understand that there are tons of things for us strength coaches to do. We have programs to make, people to take through workouts, books to read, certifications to get, and so on and so on. I'm not going to suggest that you need to run out