Training Lab Recovery

With the amount of hip-hinging weightlifters and strength athletes do, a tight posterior chain can spell doom for a day at the gym. Missed lifts, poor mobility, pinched nerves, and muscle strains do not a happy lifter make. Get Your Lower Body Ready to Squat &...

Training Mobility 101: Your Complete Guide to Mobility Exercises from Head to Toe

Author: TrainHeroic Team

Improving your mobility can help you workout for longer, reduces joint pain, and can reduce the risk of injury. In this guide you’ll learn more about mobility, who it impacts, why you should be focusing on it no matter what your age or training history, and how to tame common mobility hot spots from head to toe.

Recover From An Injury With A Champion’s Mindset

Author: Jim Afremow

Returning from an injury isn’t the result of a single heroic effort, but putting in the required work over and over again. In this article, Jim explores ways to turn what could be a setback to lament into a learning experience to relish for anyone recovering from an injury.

Common Mobility Trouble Spots for Olympic Lifters and How to Fix Them

Author: TrainHeroic Team

When you train hard regularly, every part of your body can potentially develop range of motion and motor control issues. It’s easy to overlook or even mis-diagnose problem issues like this. In this article, we’ll tackle 3 mobility exercises for Olympic lifters who might be struggling with these issues – even if you don’t know it.

Reduce Your Bicep Pain With These Mobility Exercises

Author: TrainHeroic

If you’re experiencing excess soreness, dealing with tightness in your elbows and/or shoulders, or just haven’t mobilized this area for a while, try spending 10 minutes on the following bicep exercises once or twice a week.

Have You Been Overtraining?

Author: TrainHeroic

Whether you’re a power or endurance athlete, a rest day should be a required part of your program. OK, that statement seems like a gimme, but as the writer/philosopher Voltaire once said, “Common sense is not so common.” In the past few years, it has become popular for participants in all sports to up their volume and intensity so much that overdoing it has become the norm and taking a day off seems unfathomable.

How Sleep Impacts Your Physical And Mental

Author: Momentous

Dr. Allison Brager knows more than most people about sleep science and its application. After all, that’s the neuroscientist’s job in the US Army, and something she has used to great effect to push her to multiple CrossFit Games appearances.

Improve Your Joint Health With Collagen

Author: Momentous

While many parts of the economy are still battling back from the COVID-19 slump, the supplement business is booming. The FDA estimates that there are at least 85,000 different products out there, all clamoring for our attention on Facebook, Instagram, and Google ads. Yet, while celebrity X or athlete Y might well be incentivized to promote the latest fad pill or powder, true professionals look to the science when selecting their supplements.

Mobility Exercises for Your Hands

Author: TrainHeroic Team

Let’s be honest, when was the last time you thought about hand mobility, or even acknowledged that it was even a thing? Let's dive into some mobility exercises that can help all the sore hands out there.

Neck Exercises for Mobility and Strength

Author: TrainHeroic Team

While no one move is a magic bullet, here are four simple neck mobility exercises that can help alleviate neck pain and hopefully put paid to those headaches and migraines, too.

Loosen Your Lats With These Mobility Exercises

Author: TrainHeroic Team

If you clean up your lats, you can positively impact the range of motion, tone, and neuromuscular control of tissues and joints above and below your lats. With that in mind, here are a few exercises to incorporate into your mobility routine. Even doing them for two to five minutes a side twice a week will make a big difference.

Workout Recovery Tips with Christie Aschwanden

Author: Christie Aschwanden

In this revealing Q+A, science writer Christie Aschwanden – who was introduced to the TrainHeroic team by her good friend, Range author David Epstein – shares some insights from her bestselling book Good to Go that can help you recover better and live a healthier life.