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How Many Reps?!!
Will a certain rep scheme build more muscle? Burn more fat? Create robotic-like endurance? Is a 3 rep program for no-necks, 10 reps for...
Chip Conrad
Aug 31, 20235 min read
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Age, Choices, & Blame
I wrote a book that made this claim: "Make better choices now for more choices later. The opposite is also true. Poor choices now mean...
Chip Conrad
Apr 8, 20232 min read
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The Cult of Shouldn't
Did you know there are trainers out there who brag about NOT using barbells? Others boast about never using 2-legged squats, only single...
Chip Conrad
Sep 1, 20223 min read
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YOUR Best vs THE Best
I've often, and maybe obviously, been accused of being competitive. Believe it or not, in the past the verdict made me bristle, but now...
Chip Conrad
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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Do Certifications Make Trainers Dumber?
In the industry of making people move around in interesting ways, dropping a grand or two on a weekend certification once seemed as...
Chip Conrad
Feb 15, 20228 min read
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What the Actual Heck is "Training?"
An excerpt from chapter 3 of More Inclined Towards Adventure, available digitally on this website (and part of the membership), and in...
Chip Conrad
Feb 2, 20223 min read
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Begin Again: The Art of Not Knowing
An interesting trend is developing in my email threads. Recently, the majority of my dialog with clients and website members involves the...
Chip Conrad
Jan 25, 20223 min read
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Drastically Different, But Still the Same
There has been very little new thought in the name of Fitness recently. And by "recently," I mean the last 130 years or so. This is OK,...
Chip Conrad
Jan 17, 20223 min read
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Primal? Give Yourself Some Credit.
What happens when a pair of acutely aware thinkers and movers facilitate dialogs with a handful of other thinker/movers? Ideas are...
Chip Conrad
Jan 6, 20223 min read
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The Reasons We Move!
I'm stealing from my own book, Are You Useful. A story about how BodyTribe started, at least philosophically, which happen to be one of...
Chip Conrad
Nov 25, 20216 min read
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Catabolic Dogma: The Protein Rabbit Hole
I remember reading an interview with a massive bodybuilder named Dave Palumbo back in the mid 90s. He never won any of the big contests,...
Chip Conrad
Oct 10, 20214 min read
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Something to Prove? Compete or Die!
Wise folks have said we all compete. Against time, against each other, and against ourselves. Only a few of us, however, are athletes,...
Chip Conrad
Jul 29, 20212 min read
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Putting the Ass in Assessment
Every few years a new program for trainers comes along. The name is a collection of initials and the marketing copy always hits the same...
Chip Conrad
Jul 2, 20215 min read
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Fitness Stuff and Our Relationship With it
I have my sleep-and-not-leave-the-house wear, which means whatever shirt and shorts combo I embraced into unconsciousness tends to stay...
Chip Conrad
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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Do and Do Not. There is Try!
The Jedi-curious among you might see where this post is going from the title alone. Yeah, Yoda might've been wrong. Such an antagonistic...
Chip Conrad
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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Are Some Exercises Named Incorrectly?
Hinge. It's one of those words that when you say it a lot it starts sounding weird in your head. If you're sitting while reading this,...
Chip Conrad
Apr 23, 20213 min read
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History Repeats Itself Until You are You
A case could be made that the first notable schism in the exercise world, at least here in the U.S., began in the mid 1800s. Training was...
Chip Conrad
Apr 12, 20215 min read
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Question Everything?
There were some radio shock jocks who ran a billboard campaign that simply read Question Everything! This, of course, was the more...
Chip Conrad
Mar 28, 20213 min read
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The Magic of Exchanging Power.
I can't imagine what you think of me. Should I? Although I have only peripheral control of your perception of me, it's not my job to...
Chip Conrad
Mar 21, 20214 min read
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Know Tommy Kono
I started lifting weights a little later in life than, say, a high school jock or college athlete. I started Weightlifting even later...
Chip Conrad
Mar 1, 20213 min read
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