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Your Fitness Tracker Is Not Your Doctor
Wearables can reveal valuable patterns in sleep, HRV and recovery—but a score is not a diagnosis, and sometimes the data can work against you. Learn how to use Oura, WHOOP, Apple Watch and other fitness trackers without letting the algorithm overrule your body.
Injury Treatment with METH (not RICE)
This video challenges the old RICE approach and introduces METH as a more movement-friendly framework for thinking about injury recovery.
The Choices You Make in 2018
A New Year-style mindset piece on the small daily choices that shape training, health, discipline, and personal responsibility.
The Broomstick Ritual for a Bigger Bench and Deeper Squat
A simple broomstick ritual that prepares the body for stronger pressing and deeper squatting before the real weight ever hits the bar.
Top 3 Articles of the Year
A quick year-end roundup of the three articles that drew the most attention, from calves and gut health to injury recovery.
A Lateral Raise from Beyond 2001
A shoulder-training twist inspired by eccentric overload, showing how a lateral raise variation can make light weights feel brutally effective.
4 Tips to Live By
Four straightforward health and performance habits covering sleep, vitamin D, breakfast, and recovery—simple ideas that are easy to overlook.
This Injury Prevention Assessment Fails Again
A critical look at the Functional Movement Screen and why popular assessment tools should still be questioned when the research does not back the hype.
Prioritize to Enter the Eye of the Storm
A physique-prioritization piece on identifying weak points, staying centered, and bringing lagging muscle groups into the eye of the storm.
Eat Your Protein First
A simple nutrition priority with big implications: put protein first, then build the rest of the meal around what matters most.
Do You Find Strength Workouts Boring?
Strength training does not have to feel like a chore. This video looks at ways trainers can keep clients engaged during serious workouts.
My Homemade Poliquin Rack
A behind-the-scenes look at a homemade Poliquin-style rack and the kind of equipment tweaks serious lifters love to add to their arsenal.
Keeping Up With Current and Not-So-Current Research (Part 4)
Part four wraps more health-and-fitness research into plain-English takeaways for coaches, trainers, and curious lifters.
Keeping Up With Current and Not-So-Current Research (Part 3)
Part three continues the research scan with useful takeaways for trainers who want practical insights without drowning in academic clutter.
Keeping Up With Current and Not-So-Current Research (Part 2)
Another research-driven roundup that helps trainers cut through the noise and pull practical lessons from current and older fitness findings.
Keeping Up With Current and Not-So-Current Research (Part 1)
A research roundup for fitness professionals covering training, flexibility, cardio, injury risk, and the kind of findings worth paying attention to.
Money Is One Thing. Lifestyle Is Everything!
A lifestyle-first business lesson on money, freedom, stress, and why a bigger income is not always a better deal.
Perfect Fit Television Show – January 11, 2007
Another Perfect Fit archive clip gives viewers a look at John Paul’s television segment and the subscriber-only full episode bonus.
Perfect Fit Television Show – November 9, 2006
This archive clip previews John Paul’s Perfect Fit television appearance and points subscribers toward the full Fat Loss Firestorm bonus.
How to Build Wider Shoulders
Wider shoulders start with smarter delt training. This video points to practical ways to improve shoulder width and strengthen the V-taper.
Full Circle with Siff, Di Pasquale, and Serrano
A personal reflection on learning from Mel Siff, Mauro Di Pasquale, and Eric Serrano—and how great mentors can shape a training philosophy.