Functional Training
This section of the site collects content relating to functional training: build muscle, strength, speed, agility, mobility, endurance, and more.
Vivobarefoot Primus Knit Review – An Urban Functional Shoe
The Vivobarefoot Primus Knit is a new minimalist shoe from Vivobarefoot, that can help improve overall foot strength and mobility,…
Advanced Isometric Training: Ballistic and Quasi Isometrics
I love cool, lesser talked-about types of training, that can help you to achieve awesome results. Isometrics ticks all those…
Nightwing Workout Part 2 – Push/Pull Days – Gymnastic Strength Training
In Part One of this Nightwing Training series, we devised a ‘leg day’ – designed to help build explosive leg…
Nervous System Training – Muscle Fiber Recruitment and Rate Coding Explained
Have you ever thought about what happens when you hold an isometric contraction? Pick up a dumbbell in one hand,…
Nightwing Workout Part One – Explosive Leg Training
Nightwing – Dick Grayson – is Batman’s protégé who became a hero in his own right. But far from being…
Secrets of Shaolin Training – Legendary Training
Part of the mission statement of the Bioneer, has always been to seek out unusual training methods and examples of…
Incidental Training: Everything Can Be Training
I saw an interesting documentary on the BBC a while ago called ‘The Truth About Slim People’, that followed the…
Real Ninja Shinobi Training
Modern popular culture has a fascination with ninjas. They are prominently featured in video games, comic books, movies, and novels….
Learning From Legends – Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I mentioned to people that I would be making a new series focused on real life legends, almost everyone…
A Home Workout for Single Leg Strength and Jump Height
Leg training on the whole is significantly less varied and creative than upper body training among the gym going population….