Pieces of our Past
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Left Coast Caveman Cast_S3E37
Left Coast Caveman conversation on the use of collagen as nutritional modality, when and how to use cold therapy as a fitness modality, and the purpose of training the body as a general theme....
Aerobic Training: Zone 2
Building the metabolic base may indeed be the missing link to best in class performance. And often due to outside training time commitments, many prioritize high intensity training over lengthier long distance & slow steady work to forge this base. Intuitively,...
The Art of War
The Art of War is sacred writing compiled over 2000 years ago by the Chinese warrior philosopher Sun Tzu; interestingly also written in the same zeitgeist as the Tao-Te Ching. Likely explaining the interdigitary nature of ideas and practice between both works, the AOW...
Cold & Breath – Wim Hoff Method Review
The legendary yeti, a bearded Neanderthal of Netherlands, jovial, often bare foot & chested shouting deeply from the heart, “just breath mutherfucker!”. With many cultures and religions ubiquitously mentioning breath in practice, prayer, & meditation, it’s...
Farm Strength – Ultra Heavy Medicine Ball
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of shaking hands with a farmer, construction worker, or an old school dad, you’re likely to notice a difference between them and the common brand of man. A moment of reflection as their mitt crushes your velvety man hands; hand strength...
Inflammation Is Good
Let’s start off with an incendiary claim: Inflammation is good. Although often confronted with strategies of reducing inflammation with diet, recovery protocols, and supplements, I believe its worth understanding why the body experiences inflammation firstly, and how...
Beer Garden Blooming
The craving for human interaction creates itchiness of mind. An incessant irritation and graduated compulsion only to be ignored for so long. Inflammations compel a call to action in soothing scratch…even greater than the noose like chemical dependence of cold lager....
Increase Testosterone: T-Protocol
Testosterone: the male sex hormone that has driven civilization to the heights of the contemporary now. From fueling battle to keeping your tribe safe, hunting mastodons, to winning in sales negotiations, courting women, and being less prone to injury. This hormone is...
BJJ Specificity Training – Full Mount Dominion
In our BJJ Specificity Training, we focus on movement patterns with close links to grappling specificity of guard game. By combining specific technical movement patterns we prime the nervous system to increase efficiency of execution: adding speed to action in...
BJJ Specificity Training – Filthy Guard
In our BJJ Specificity Training, we focus on movement patterns with close links to grappling specificity of guard game. By combining specific technical movement patterns we prime the nervous system to increase efficiency of execution: adding speed to action in...
BJJ Specificity Training – Heavy Side
In our BJJ Specificity Training, we focus on movement patterns with close links to grappling specificity of a heavy side control game. By combining specific technical movement patterns we prime the nervous system to increase efficiency of execution: adding speed to...
The Quit Demon
Deep within the cerebral folds, lies the haunting grounds of your personal Quit Demon. Summoned by crucibles and hardship, we unknowably hold seance through struggle, and call fourth it’s manifest. From the opaque unknown, the fog of self doubt obscures this...
Beginner Dumbbell Protocol
This beginner dumbbell protocol is a straightforward introduction to strength and conditioning with the simple requirements of 2 dumbbells and the self affirmed purpose of becoming strong. The below workout will take you through a balanced approach to challenging...
Muscle Fiber: Specify Training
Before picking up a weight, loading a rack, or starting a run, there should be a reason driving these calls to fitness action. Purpose + Training = Performance + Results. Keeping the algebra balanced in equation, there is a reciprocal property: the answer adjusts...
Pre-Game Your Squat
The corner stone of any periodized training program is the squat. Yet for many, this exercise leads directly to numbers of pathologies of the low body, often harassing knees, low back, & spine. Much like a power tool, squats can handily increase ones scalability...
Stop Static Stretching
Acknowledging this may be interpreted as controversial and highly debated stance, but strong rhetoric is needed to correct an idea approaching pre and post workout routines. The goal here is to chisel away stone from the monument we have constructed to static...
Feet Grip: Activating the Base
If you’ve ever been to one of those pretentious running stores at the outlets, chances are before you try on the latest foamed out neon screaming foot appliance, they put you on a treadmill for foot-photo-shoot & imprinting arch session to assess the shoe best...
Chimp Strength (Omega)
Functional strength rooted in core and emanating through limb grabbing fingers & toes, requires a multi-planar & jointed approach of load challenge, time under tension, and nervous system recruitment. The Chimp Strength series (Alpha & Omega) is...
Chimp Strength (Alpha)
Functional strength rooted in core and emanating through limb grabbing fingers & toes, requires a multi-planar & jointed approach of load challenge, time under tension, and nervous system recruitment. The Chimp Strength series (Alpha & Omega) is...
Collagen: The Healing Protein
Claiming superiority through idolatrous usage of a particular protein supplement can be a risky proclamation. For the discreet few, protein agnosticism is a helpful tactic in efforts of avoiding thorny debates and spending more time lifting plates and pledging homage...