Hey Spriint Fam! How’s your Sprint Interval Training workout going? Just getting started? Haven’t started yet? What’s holding you back? How can I help put you on a path to success? I just love sprinting as a workout so much I want to share that gift with you. Let me know what’s working, what’s not…
These are the Top 10 principles I use to program my Spriint Fit workout. From my experience it’s what’s helped me continually and sustainably increase my speed, muscle development and fortify my body against injury.
You’ve probably heard of HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training. Sprint Interval Training is a lesser known, elevated form of intensity training that pushes the maximal benefits to its limits. Studies have shown Sprint Interval Training burns 40% more fat than HIIT in 60% less time. There are many, many more benefits of Sprint Interval Training,…
Flexibility is muscle length. Mobility is tendon length. We commonly understand flexibility a little better, it’s the stretches we’ve been taught since P.E. The concept is lengthening the muscles through extension. But mobility is a little less commonly understood, probably because as a child our mobility is great and so we don’t do much mobility…
Playing sports, running or working out, I’d always be dealing with these issues. These are things I used to try and fix it. They worked to some degree, provided some temporary relief but weren’t really permanent. This is the one thing that helped me gain a more lasting solution. Floor squats and increasing the deeper…
If you wanted to commit to just one thing that you could do everyday that would improve your physical fitness and mobility. If you can commit to simply two minutes a day that might get you started on the lifelong road to health and strength. Let’s start with the hip hinge. We’ll be able to…
Tendons have the viscoelastic property of being able to stretch and relax while also creating rigidity and stiffness. They should have the pliability of muscles and the structural integrity of bone, to allow joints to move while also lock in place when absorbing and producing force from the ground. I’ve found that in improving my…
Form matters, especially in sprinting. First of all and most importantly, if you want to avoid injury and if you want to get faster, stronger, better. Form is the most functional piece of the movement, without proper form, we’ll lose efficiency, optimization and maximizing potentiation. Prioritizing form will allow for maximizing full potential of the…
If I’d ever overwork my running, I was always in danger of pulling my hamstrings. Especially doing full sprints, long-strides and opening up my hamstrings. I realize now, if I continue doing sprints during a workout, I can sense my hamstrings fatiguing, which back then I never payed attention to. Like a game of flinch,…