Training for Hot Environments

This post will focus on a recent competition one of our athletes (Matt Brady) competed at as part of the CrossFit Games season. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on some of the training [...]

Many years ago when I first began designing training programs for individuals I often would write percentages for effort. Such as 85 to 90% effort. Years before that even, I believe I would even [...]

Jason, First off, I want to thank you for your near 8 years of service at OPT. I can’t believe it has already been that long. I should have told you this before the end of November, but I never [...]

Functional Threshold Power I first heard of the acronym FTP maybe 10 years ago. At the time I was deep into coaching CrossFit, not so much into trying to completely understand what was going on [...]

Preamble  I am going to write about 2 competing priorities in training for the fitness competitor (i.e. CrossFit, Hyrox, IF3, etc.). Namely, training to compete versus training to improve your [...]

This post is broken into 3 parts: 1 – Genesis  2 – Application   3 – Exercise Physiology    Part 1 – Genesis  What is a Work: Work interval?  Quite simply, it is the [...]

Why do people use Heart rate monitors when exercising? I asked ChatGPT this exact question. The top 2 reasons Mr. GPT gave were 1) Monitoring Intensity and 2) Optimizing Workouts. Let’s focus on [...]

You teach your clients to lift a barbell, to swing on the rings, to walk on their hands. These movement patterns are learned. Many times Coaches will discuss Running with the same ideas in mind [...]

Perception of Effort can be considered one of the main limiting factors in endurance performance. This is not really a controversial statement. What Samuele Marcora brings to the table with his [...]

This month we will delve into a very important and sometimes contentious topic within fitness training. Namely, the concept of Periodization. Nowadays, many Coaches use that word but are not [...]