A few weeks ago I started counting down my top 10 myths about fitness and nutrition. Read myth #10: being skinny means you are healthy and myth #9: lactic acid causes soreness. Myth #8 is that you need a sports drink after working out. The marketers of these drinks really [...]

Last week I started counting down the top 10 myths about fitness and nutrition. Click here to read myth #10: being skinny means you are healthy. Today I'm clearing up some confusion surrounding soreness. The largest myth related to the topic is that lactic acid causes soreness. It does not. [...]

Myth #10: Being skinny means you are healthy This is a myth that I deal with a lot. Not necessarily because I have to tell thin people that they’re actually in poor health, but because the firefighters I work with often feel discouraged when their exercise efforts are not resulting [...]

As you may have heard, core strength is very important for firefighters to possess. In fact, I would be willing to bet all my student loans that 99% of firefighters know this. But there's a lot of exercises out there - some good, some bad. So which ones should you [...]

Last week I described a simple treadmill test made specifically for firefighters that you can use to predict your aerobic capacity (aka. “VO2max”), which is a measure of aerobic fitness. In the past I’ve explained that maintaining a high level of aerobic fitness is really important for firefighters since the [...]