Dave Reesor Heavy Squat Session
Check out Team Strong Athlete member Big Dave Reesor's most recent leg training session as he gears up for a raw powerlifting meet!
The Benefits of HIGH Altitude Training
High Altitude training is not a new method - I’m sure you’ve heard about it many times before. Many athletes from a wide variety of sports (boxing, track & field, rowing etc.) base their pre-competition training camps in high-altitude locations like Big Bear California, Denver Colorado, or Albuquerque New Mexico. [...]
Photo Gallery: STRONG Athlete Wins In Cobourg!
|By Team Strong Athlete| Team Strong Athlete's Kate Mitchell swept the women's physique division at the OPA Cobourg Naturals. This was Kate's second victory in as many shows. Kate will compete next in Figure at the Ontario Championships on June 1st. Check out the photo gallery below: Team Strong [...]
Battle Bodyfat with Battle Ropes
High Intensity Interval Training – Are You Doing It? Find out how this Strong Athlete Approved training style can deliver rapid results!
So You Think You Got A Squat Problem?
|By: Nassim Jebran| It’s happened to us all at one point in our lifting careers; you get aches, pains and you don't lift as much as you would like to and put yourself in a position where there is a serious risk for injury all by doing one thing: Squatting. [...]
Knee Injury Prevention
|By: Nicole Ettorre CAT(C), BAHSc (AT), BPhEd| Whether you are a weekend warrior or a highly competitive athlete, you have likely experienced or come in contact with someone who has suffered from some sort of knee pain. Knee injuries, especially to those who are physically active, have become increasingly [...]
What is Active Release Technique?
|By Dr. Marco De Ciantis| Active Release Technique (ART®) is described as a “hands-on”, case-management system that is used by many conservative care practitioners (chiropractors, physiotherapists, and message therapists) that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, [...]
Lower Back Injury Prevention
|By: Alex Carnall| Probably more common than any injury in my experience has been clients presenting with low-back pain. There are tons of “rules of thumb” expressed as common knowledge or coaching cues that hold no more than face validity and are actually hurting people instead of protecting them. Since [...]
Heat Shock Protein & Estrogen – PART 1
| By Nadine Shaban | It wasn’t too long ago that I was sitting in my advisors office and he was giving me a lecture about some sort of life event. His lectures about life still resonate with me after all this time. I remember one particular story about [...]
TOP 5 Best Leg Exercises!
|By Alex Carnall| Before I dive into what my five best leg exercises let me make a bit of a disclaimer. Understand that this article is written from my own perspective. I work with athletes who need a holistic, more functional (vs. structural) approach to their training. That’s not [...]
Weight Cutting Research On Young Athletes
|By Dr. Marco De Ciantis| Weight cutting is a common occurrence in many weight-classed competitive sports, such as boxing, martial arts and wrestling as a means for athletes to make a weight category. Tension, dizziness, headaches, and confusion have been associated with rapid weight loss (RWL) as a direct result [...]
5 Signs of a Bad Personal Trainer
|By Alex Carnall| If I could master time travel and talk to the 18 year old version of me about training, I’d probably save myself the trip. Like any other young lifter, I was convinced I held the key to untold success under the bar. I watched others with a [...]
STRONG Profile: Tina Goinarov
| By Vince Pe | Strong-Athlete proudly profile's Tina Goinarov. One of our industry's hardest working and most dedicated individuals, I had the pleasure of finding out more about Tina and how she got involved to the sport we all love. Regularly helping our industry's most predominant athletes such as Mboya [...]
True Grit: Sara-Clare Lajeunesse
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| I was farting around on Facebook one day when I saw a status update that had found its way onto my Newsfeed. It was by a woman named Sara-Clare Lajeunesse and this is the update and picture I saw: “Never give up on yourself. [...]
TOP 5 Exercises for Strong & Ripped Abs
|By Big Jeff Pearce| I was sitting on a bench with the plates loaded up, looking around the gym for a spot. It was midday and the gym was practically empty except for a few dudes. The biggest of them all was a stuntman named Rob. I asked him over [...]
Is This The Most Dangerous Man In The UFC?
|By PK Mills| Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua wanted nothing to do with him. Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson conveniently got injured just before a fight with him. And former UFC light-heavyweight champion “Sugar” Rashad Evans said “no way” when offered the chance to fight him. [...]
Interview with Richie “RICH-BODY” Keirouz
|By Vince Pe | Richie Keirouz is one of the rising stars in the OPA. Fresh off competing at the 2012 Ontario Provincial Championships at the Toronto Pro Supershow, Richie is a top 5 finisher in what was the most competitive weight class in that show. With one of [...]
Post-Workout NUTRITION
| By Nadine Shaban | Recently, I decided to change up my workouts and join back up to a “chain gym.” At first I thought I was regretting the decision; the gym turned out to be a place where men think that looking in the mirror will make their biceps [...]
Staying HUMBLE
|By Big Jeff Pearce| In the animal kingdom, it doesn’t pay to be humble. Lions have their mane, peacocks have their feathers and rattle snakes have their rattle. These animals show off, for whatever reason, their strengths. Humans can be observed doing the same thing. We have all seen the [...]
Q&A With New IFBB Pro Joanne Williams
|By Big Jeff Pearce| Joanne Williams has overcome a lot in the years that she has been bodybuilding to reach her goal of becoming an IFBB Pro. Before she reached the heights of the Canadian bodybuilding world, Joanne was faced with the very grim reality of being diagnosed with breast [...]
Q&A with Fitness Expert Laura Coleman
| By Vince "Fitness Financier" Pe | Hailing from sunny Southern California, fitness expert Laura Coleman, is a former competitor that I met ages ago at one of the IFBB's major shows; The Ironman. Her personality was so exuberant that I knew she would become a major player in the fitness [...]
Injuries SUCK!
| By Nadine Shaban | Let’s face it – injuries suck; they just plain old suck. Even though incurring an injury can be like having a gray cloud hovering over you, there is a silver lining. Injuries can put life into perspective and let you refocus on aspects of [...]
Q&A with IFBB Figure Pro Larissa Reis
| By Big Jeff Pearce | From the pages of Playboy to Muscular Development, IFBB Pro Larissa Reis is everywhere; thank God for that! Currently, Larissa is a Nutrex sponsored athlete and is the owner/operator of www.LarissaReis.net. Through her website, she provides a number of services, everything from personal training [...]
Beating the Post-Competition BLUES
| By Anita Kus-Roberts | I was at a show recently watching competitor after competitor parade around, proud of their hard-earned physiques. How motivating it was for me to watch, in my off-season “puffy” phase. As each competitor did their catwalk and showed off, an announcer would read tidbits and quotes [...]
Learning From DEFEAT
| By Big Jeff Pearce | "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is [...]
HOLY Shiitake! Mushrooms & Athletics
Elite Distance runners have been using mushrooms to enhance their aerobic performance for decades. | By Big Jeff Pearce | Mushrooms, within the sphere of cultural thought, have consistently been associated as either a pizza topping or psychedelic. Well, what if mushrooms could do more for people than [...]
Q&A With Bikini Competitor Candice Perfect
| By Vince "Fitness Financier" Pe | Candice Perfect is on her way to make a huge splash in the NPC's bikini division. Aside from the obvious last name that seems to be predetermined for success, Candice has been hard at work fine tuning her physique under the tutelage [...]
PROBIOTICS for the Athlete
| By Dr. Christine Davis, B.Sc., ND | Physical training is understood by almost everyone as a positive, health-related activity. However, extreme athletes undertaking regular strenuous training walk a fine line between physical well-being and impaired immune function. This is likely due to the immunosuppressive effects of stress hormones [...]
Dave “The JUGGERNAUT” Haynes
Dave "The Juggernaut" Haynes: Smashing Through Brick Walls | By Big Jeff Pearce | According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a Juggernaut is defined as “A massive inexorable force, campaign, movement or object that crushes whatever is in its path.” If you know Dave Haynes, then you have been witness to [...]
How INFLAMMATION Is Hurting You
| By Big Jeff Pearce | Everyday, there is some new thing in the news that you should be afraid of, something you shouldn’t be eating or something that is causing cancer. Needless to say, a lot of it is scare tactics designed to get viewership or readers. However, [...]