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Why the External Obliques are the Top Oblique

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 by Julie

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There are four major abdominal muscles that act as a girdle for all of your internal organs, from deepest to most superficial: the transverse abdominis, internal obliques, external obliques, and on top (and in front), the rectus abdominis. Today, though, we're focusing on the external obliques. I've always found it…

Barbell Badass with Chrissy King

May 23, 2018 by Julie

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Chrissy King and I sat down on Tuesday, May 15th to chat about her new powerlifting + conditioning program and what the fitness industry is missing. Below is an Intelligent Verbatim transcription of the interview. Find Chrissy's Barbell Badass program here, on sale until Friday, May 25th at midnight EST.…

Sternocleidomastoid (a.k.a. SCM) Release

September 16, 2017February 12, 2018 by Julie

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The anterior neck doesn't get a lot of press around here, does it? It's highly functional, but sometimes does too much work (read: it can be a pain in the neck, haha). But, back to that in a minute. The sternocleidomastoid runs from the side of the head to the middle of…

Workout Wednesday on Thursday: Double Snatches, Oh My!

June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by Julie

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My jam is Kettlebell workouts where I have 1 or 2 Kettlebells and don't put 'em down. It's probably the efficiency element that I really dig, so when I wrote out this workout I knew that was my going to be the focus. Try this if you're into hard work…

Hurculean Triceps

June 13, 2017June 13, 2017 by Julie

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I used to do a lot of triceps pushdowns next to a friend who was also doing a lot of triceps pushdowns. (Isn't this how all great stories start?!) We joked that I had Herculean-like* triceps because I could do a lot more volume. This went on for some time…

Workout Wednesday

May 18, 2017May 20, 2017 by Julie

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For the past few weeks I've been cutting back on my workouts, adding leisure walks and really trying to auto-regulate, using intuition and some biofeedback testing to determine what I do. That being said, oftentimes I'm updating what I'm doing mid-workout because a movement doesn't feel great. (Learning how to do…

The Big Hunka Quad Muscles

March 22, 2017April 14, 2017 by Julie

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The big hunka muscles on the fronts of your legs is the Quadriceps Group. They get tight and can wreak havoc on the rest of your body if not taken care of, but often times I find that while clients are aware they exist, there's little TLC done to them except…

The Other Bigs of Bigness

January 26, 2017September 4, 2019 by Julie

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I’m probably one of the laziest fit people you know: I sit between sets, I work hard to be as efficient as possible so I don’t have to move 45-pound plates more than necessary, and more often than not, I drive to the gym despite being within a 20-minute walk…

The Bigs of Bigness

January 25, 2017May 3, 2017 by Julie

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I put it off for so long—The Bigness Project, I mean. I knew it was happening; there was chatter about it last fall after many of my friends signed up for an early access group and left me in the chalk dust flying off of my barbell. They were very excited…

Two Ways I’m Interacting with the World

August 18, 2016 by Julie

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Life is clearer when there's a process. I've had two a-ha moments in the recent past that helped me to create general responses to two very different situations. In one, I'm asking someone if they need my help and the other, well, I'm offering my apologies. The similar component in…

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