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Don’t forget your Upper Body Core…

I realized a few weeks ago that the upper body has a “core” similar to the role played by the lower body “core”, namely the abs, obliques and lower back. For the lower body, those muscle groups act to...

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General Physical Prep and Specific Physical Prep… or Why riding a road bike...

After posting my article on How To Use Road Riding as a Mountain Biker I realized that one of the things that easily gets forgotten in the never ending debate for the “best” training method or program...

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Shoe, Pedal and Foot Placement Tips for Flat Pedals

I get a lot of questions from mountain bikers about how to keep their feet planted on their flat pedals and I have found that it usually boils down to 3 things – Shoes, Pedal Selection and Foot...

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Kneeling Inch Worm for a Stronger Core

I came up with this exercise at home the other day because I didn’t have an Ab Wheel for the ab rollouts I had planned. I decided to try it without the Ab Wheel and realized that I actually like this...

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Time to celebrate the release of my new Follow-Along Workout Program….

Some of my biggest breakthroughs in my riding and training career have come from simply seeing someone else do something first. Something about seeing someone else clean a line on the trail or perform...

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MTB Performance Wheel

Every self respecting rider in the world knows that keeping the wheels on your bike round and true is important to keeping the ride safe and smooth. Neglect your wheels and it is just a matter of time...

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Advanced Push Up Techniques to Improve Your Strength

I don’t know about you but the push up is the first exercise I can remember doing as kid. They are also one of my favorite upper body exercises for mountain biking and I have some variation of them in...

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HRV: The most valuable training tool I’ve ever used…but no one knows about.

Few things have changed my approach to my own training like monitoring my Heart Rate Variability (HRV) with Bioforce HRV. While I hate to use words like “revolutionary” and “game changing” I have to...

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The end of flat pedals for World Cup DH racing?

Last Wednesday an article ran on Pinkbike.com that caused some pretty big waves in the mountain bike community. Richard Cunningham, the technical editor for the site, wrote an in depth article spelling...

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Pulse Squats for Improved Upper Body Core Strength

The Pulse Squat is an exercise I read about years ago but never really used much in my workouts until I understood the importance of the Upper Body Core (post link to video). I now use this exercise to...

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New Five-Ten/ 5-10 Freerider VXI Shoe Review

A few weeks ago I received a mildly beat up 5-10 box in the mail, the kind that their shoes come in. I knew I had some shoes on the way so I thought there must be a pair in the box. I took it home and...

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How to Manual & Bunny Hop Your Bike

Manualing is one of those skills most rider’s think you are either born with or you just can’t do it. We’ve all seen the guy holding a manual forever – making the rest of us feel like chumps – but the...

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Improve your hip power with these two unique leg exercises…

While the kettlebell swing is one of my favorite exercises for improving your power on the trail, it does use both legs at the same time. This means that you can easily develop an asymmetry between the...

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The 1 Lift a Day Program – Staying strong with just one exercise per workout

Lately I’ve run into a problem that, judging from the number of emails I get about it, a lot of riders run into this time of year. While we know that we need to work out, right now the trails are...

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Doing the same but different…

Most people think that they need to make frequent wholesale changes in their program on a regular basis in order to see results from their workouts. The theory is that you need to keep the body...

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Fixing Wrist Pain and Hand Numbness from Mountain Biking

I hear from a lot of riders who suffer from reoccurring wrist pain and hand numbness when mountain biking. This is unfortunate because, in most cases, it comes down to a bad cockpit set up and overall...

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Fat person curling soup cans…

No matter what area of life we are talking about one of the worst mistakes someone can make is assuming that the first thing that brought them some success is the best way to do something. This mistake...

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Are you twisted?

Most of us are twisted in one way or another…and I’m not talking about anything that you might be dressing up as for Halloween tonight (that’s your business). What I am talking about is how your body...

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Your chance to win my newest Kettlebell Program plus $288 worth of programs...

About a year ago I came out with the MTB Kettlebell Conditioning Program because I saw a need for a program that combined the unique benefits of kettlebells with the mountain bike specific training...

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Contest Winners plus a Special Offer on the new MTB KB Conditioning Program v2.

First, I want to say thanks to all of the riders who took the time to post a comment and enter for a chance to win $288 worth of programs and coaching from me. I was really excited to see that there...

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