Functional Training
This section of the site collects content relating to functional training: build muscle, strength, speed, agility, mobility, endurance, and more.
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….
Spartan Training – How to Train Like the Legendary Greek Warriors
The ferocity, fighting prowess, and athleticism of the Spartan warrior is the stuff of legend. So much so, that “Spartan”…