The Movement

PVC Pipes Are Mostly Useless for Weightlifting

Yesterday, my favorite basketball team took a disappointing loss. The Hotshots fell to the Bulldogs in a hard-fought game during the local 2nd-grade champion...

Knowledge To Become a Great Personal Trainer

I remember a job interview I had for a position as a trainer when I was fresh out of undergrad. In the interview, I was asked: “How would you rank your fitne...

The Key to Muscle Growth

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about gains. But not the beach body ones, rather the ones that happen via the nervous system. Check back to The Movement – 1...

The Nervous System Gains That Make You Stronger

When you lift weights, your muscles get bigger, and that makes you stronger—it’s science. But many people don’t realize there are many other ways that streng...

The Trainer’s Guide to Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

There are health and fitness professionals that train the pelvic floor muscles with the same enthusiasm that a bro does biceps. Unless you’re in the niche of...

The Coach’s Guide to Ankle Sprains

I usually feel cool and confident when leading a training session.  But at this particular moment, I felt helpless. I turned to find one of the athletes in m...

The Best Way to Grow Your Gym

I received an important piece of advice from Ben Bergeron that every gym owner needs to hear.  It’s the secret to success for growing your gym into a mini fi...

[Case Study] How 36 Baseball Players Increased Their Velocity by 5.3mph in 8 weeks

This fall, 36 players enrolled in Cannon Arm Training for an 8-week throwing academy. The program included 4 training sessions per week, with the primary go...

The Glute and Core Guide

  We learned it from Chubbs… “It’s all in the hips.” When looking across all athletic performance this rings true. That’s because the hips are the power...

How The Brain Makes You Stronger