Fat Loss and Athleticism
Upper Echelon Nutrition co-founder Paul Fabritz discusses how fat loss (when done the right way) can improve athleticism.
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Protein Intake and Injury Risk
Upper Echelon Nutrition co-founders Max Schmarzo and Paul Fabritz discuss the importance of sufficient protein intake for athletes with regard to m...
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How Long Should I Work Out?
We often like to put constraints on things for the sake of constraints. For example, people like to workout for a given period of time instead of ...
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Should I Use A Foam Roller?
Sometimes when we train, we get areas of tightness and soreness. Believe it or not, the research world doesn’t fully understand why this happens. ...
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Learn How To Sleep Better
Slow wave sleep (SWS) is in the family of non-rapid eye movement (nREM) sleep. The majority of this sleep occurs in the first half of your nighttim...
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Systemic Fatigue
When we talk about training, we need to think about the whole picture! So when we think about fatigue and what workouts cause the most amount of fa...
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Motor Unit Recruitment
A motor unit consists of a single motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates. So in one muscle, like your quads, you have many different moto...
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A Proper Workout Warm-Up
Your warm-up can make or break your athletic performance and it is paramount for athletes to be warming up properly, effectively, and efficiently. ...
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Understanding Nutrient Timing
Nutrient timing is the concept that what you eat should have a purpose based on what you are doing or did. For example, it's not just about how man...
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The Tabata Method and Workouts
The Tabata Method itself is pretty simple and can be a great conditioning workout. It is a form of high intensity interval training (HIIT) where yo...
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Overcoming Isometrics
Overcoming isometrics are a form of isometric where the movement is performed by pressing into an immovable object, for example pressing into pins....
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Tempo Push-Pull Conditioning Program
This upper body conditioning series is simple, to the point and effective. The goal is to pick two exercises, in this case push-ups and inverse row...
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Core Workouts
Your core is critically important. Its job is to help create movement (at times) and resist movement at other times. Yes, I get it, people like to ...
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