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...
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Chip Conrad
- Apr 7
- 2 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Feb 15
- 8 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Feb 2
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Jan 25
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Jan 17
- 3 min
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,...
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Chip Conrad
- Jan 6
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Nov 25, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Oct 10, 2021
- 4 min
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,...
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Chip Conrad
- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
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,...
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Chip Conrad
- Jul 2, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
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Chip Conrad
- Apr 12, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Question Everything?
There were some radio shock jocks who ran a billboard campaign that simply read Question Everything! This, of course, was the more...
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Chip Conrad
- Mar 21, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Feb 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Chip Conrad
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
Why is it Important?
Over on the 'secret' BodyTribe Facebook Group (just ask, I'll add ya), one of our deep thinkers, Steve Cork, opened a dialog with some...
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Chip Conrad
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
I Like to Move it, Move it.
Mind, Body, Spirit. The complete package. Or, if you're more clinically inclined, Cognitive, Physical, Emotional. Whatever your...
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