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Our pledge to you is that we will do the heavy lifting! We go to battle with bullshit and cut to the chase. If you’re looking for honest information, you’re in the right place.
Empower Your Performance. This is the mission of Power Athlete HQ. It’s mindset that trickles down from the top. Everything from the slogans on Power Athlete tees, the sets and reps John programs in the daily training programs, to the words sentences we compile together on the Power Athlete Blog are carefully crafted to help…
Read MoreAt Power Athlete there are a few things we are openly passionate about: the Fast and Furious documentaries, Flat Earth, and the idea of being wedded to principles, not philosophies. Philosophies require you to think a certain way, while principles allow you to sift and wade through the bullshit, finding the truly useful and enhancing…
Read MoreHow many nights has your significant other come home late, exhausted, and silent? He or she kicks their shoes off, plops down on the couch, and starts scrolling through Game of Thrones episodes. Or, maybe they sit on the other end of the spectrum and come home full of energy, bouncing off the walls, trying to…
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The Wolf and the Kraken Robb Wolf has a way of explaining things so that the layman can understand complex ideas. Maybe that’s why his humble little podcast, The Paleo Solution, has gained traction throughout the years among intelligent contemporaries in the field and idiots like us. This week Robb breaks down some of the…
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Santa Trains Speed Too That’s right. This week Luke and Tex talk deliberate training through many of the programs we utilize to develop bad motherfuckers. Your questions about the evolution of CrossFit Football into Johnnie WOD, why we choose the Power Athlete Metabolic Circuit once a year, and our three biggest battles of bullshit. Is…
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This weekend we wrapped up the 2018 Power Athlete Symposium, the premier symposium in strength and conditioning-ing-ing. While there were an almost infinite number of knowledge bombs dropped this weekend, here are just five that we took away, that stuck with us and we wanted to share with you. Ben Skutnik Whether you are an…
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If you think that your performance in the gym or on the field is only tied to your best efforts under the barbell or at practice, you’re overlooking the most important part of your training regimen: recovery. Recovery is the foundation that athleticism is built on. Too often we focus on how we are going…
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Yes, it’s that time of year again: getting up early, standing in lines in the early morning cold for “doorbuster deals”, and having to Be the Hammer on some folks while you’re scrambling to get that last toy or electronic. At least, that was the way it used to be. With online shopping, you don’t…
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Stimulate, Don’t Annihilate Nothing could me more apropos than having nutrition master, Stan Efferding [@StanEfferding] on the show on Thanksgiving week. While you’ve been shoveling food into your gullet, we’ve been preparing a tasty little episode of Power Athlete Radio. If you consider yourself a nutrition nerd or you’ve been throwing darts aimlessly trying to…
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By now we all know that it doesn’t matter how great your training plan is if your nutrition is garbage. But knowing what to eat isn’t enough, you’ve got to have the necessary tools to execute the plan. Just like there are essentials for a gym, there are essentials for the kitchen. And ‘tis the…
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