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Sauté the peppers onion and garlic in olive oil, top with cilantro, cherrie tomatoes, and salsa of choice. Guacamole- 2 large ripe avacados,...

I want to hang out with this guy. I would buy him endless amounts of beer to perform tricks for me on demand. DN

Nothing fancy today... just hard work at the end of a training session. We did this for 3 continuous rounds. DN

When I think sport, I think strength and power. I hate the term "sport specific" but when I sport specificity I think complexing. ...

This is another great anti-rotation exercise on the TRX. The key here is that your hip stay stable as if a glass of beer is sitting on your ...

My good friend Robert Dos Remedios just released a new 2 DVD set and as always it is content rich. This 2 DVD set contains almost 3 1/3 hour...

Many of you may or may not know that I am a vegan. Yes.... I lift weights, I am a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and I am a vegan. Some o...

I'm proud to say that my friend (and business partner) Matt Leech did Impact proud and came home with two Gold medals after competing at...

This is a fantastic exercise that Chris Frankel from Fitness Anywhere came up with. We use this in our Anti-rotation progression. It is diff...

My good friend Robert Dos Remedios, better known as Coach Dos has a new 'Member only' premium site. This website is rockin'! It ...

While most sports have a pre-season, in-season, and off-season; MMA does not. Yes you do have training camps before fights where training ra...

This is a reactive core exercise we use with some of our MMA guys. By reactive I mean that they have respond to the coaches order to stabili...

I know! You can't believe it right?!?!?! I am actually blogging. After getting hell from several people at the Perform Better Summit in ...

Listening to Dan John speak or reading his book offers several ah-ha moments along with some inspiration. I can't say enough about his b...

As you know I am a fan of the TRX suspension trainer. Sadly there is a group making fake TRX's that are low quality and will break on yo...

The trick here is to use the pendulum effect as resistance. You can start behind the anchor point of the TRX to make it easier or move past ...

Here is an article I wrote for Fitness Anywhere a couple months ago titled "TRX Core Training for Mixed Martial Arts". I am a big ...

As you know, MMA is a passion of mine. From a sporting demand there is nothing like it. Many people ask how we train mixed martial artist. T...

Things have been very busy at IPT. We just opened our new facility in Newberg, Oregon a few weeks ago. We still have a bit of work to do to ...

Here is one of our TRX Anterior Core Progressions: TRX Plank Coaching Cues: 1. Maintain “pillar” type stability 2. Do not allow excessive ar...

The Health Hut has featured the Impact Performance Training Blog as one (see # 5)of the Top 50 Exercise Science Blogs. DN

I was recently interviewed by Anthony Renna on the Strength Coach Podcast episode 42 . A few things I spoke about were: ** Being "Brill...

This is great hip dominant exercise that we never really found efficient ways of loading. We now simply take a jiu-jitsu belt and load two k...

What works best for a fighter? Linear or undulating periodization? Kettlebells or dumbbells? Olympic lifts from the floor or hang? What do y...

Some of the training methods presented in this article are a continuation of my article, “Common Mistakes of a Mixed Martial Artist” and oth...

To me, progression is the key to everything. I have a progression for every exercise I program. This is how you continually build success in...

Hip mobility is important for many different reasons but two trends that you will tend to see with a loss of mobility in the hips are: 1. Lo...

"I don't have the time to travel". This is the most common excuse that a trainer or coach gives for the fact that they don...

1. Your a closet eater: Does somebody have a little secret? Come on, fess up. It's time to come out of the closet..... seriously!! Come ...

How should you challenge yourself more on plakning exercises?? You can do two things. Increase the time or increase the difficulty of the ex...

Stretching is one of those things that people tend to not think about much. They simple just go through the motions trying to look as flexib...

I was having some "writer's block" so I figured I wouldn't write anything and rather post a few plyometric training videos...