Biomechanics principles you can actually use in the gym.
Programming Push Day
Jordan Shallow
January 29 2026
Targeted musculature, type of stimulus, training frequency, mobility limitations, concurrent pull sessions: These factors inform how to select exercises, order them within a workout, and set correspondent volume and intensity parameters.
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Archive
Maximize quad development by applying length-tension principles.
Eric Bugera
August 11 2025
Building well-developed quads is a central goal for trainers and trainees across the board. However, a common problem among many programming approaches is the overlap of movement patterns and joint angles in the same session.
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Three components to build the perfect warm-up.
Eric Bugera
August 05 2025
Too many trainers treat warming up as a tedious ritual or an afterthought, failing to realize that an ineffective warm-up sabotages strength gains and increases injury risk.
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How to select the right load placement for your split squat.
Eric Bugera
July 31 2025
The split squat stands as one of your most powerful tools for generating lower-body coordination, increasing stability, and stimulating muscle growth.
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Maximize training outcomes through scapular mobility.
Eric Bugera
July 22 2025
Scapular mobility is the prerequisite for training any muscle in the upper body.
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Fatigue management is the key to sustaining progress.
Eric Bugera
July 16 2025
Proper regulation of muscular and neurological fatigue is what lets you train harder for longer and see more results.
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Three steps to improve your hip internal rotation.
Eric Bugera
July 11 2025
Your hip internal rotation sets the limit for most lower body movements – train accordingly.
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Implement three principles to train stability effectively.
Eric Bugera
July 10 2025
When a joint is adequately stable, its crossing muscles can produce more force. Learn how to unlock progress in size and strength by increasing joint stability- without doing boring rehab-tier work.
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Reaching true muscular failure – reliably and sustainably.
Eric Bugera
July 03 2025
For most training adaptations, effective training stimulus pushes you in the direction of temporary muscular failure. Regardless of rep volume, consistently working near muscular failure will reliably yield productive results.
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Let's eliminate "light days" from our training repertoire.
Eric Bugera
June 26 2025
Challenging working sets induced via load are a prerequisite for any stimulus that builds muscle. Time is valuable, and “going light” is a good way to waste precious minutes of a session with no substantial return.
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Length-Tension Relationships: A cheat code to gains.
Eric Bugera
June 19 2025
At some point during training you must have noticed a sticking point – a range of motion that feels disproportionately more challenging than the rest.
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