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Earlier in the week, I was doing some online professional development (doom scrolling through Instagram Reels) and stumbled across a video where a S&C coach was talking about, how once there is damage to the articular cartilage in your knee, deep squats will continue to shred that cartilage until there is nothing left. “Like rubbing the eraser on the back of your pencil down to the metal.” Which is wildly inaccurate. Even worse were the comments, where there was more fear-mon

I had a poll up on my Instagram Story (@jonovautin_aep) , asking the Exercise Physiologists and Strength & Conditioning coaches that follow me the following: “If a client of yours only had 5-10 minutes available in the day to get a single lift in, which exercise would you pick, a Back Squat or Deadlift.” The results surprised me. My belief was that the deadlift would be the go-to option: Can progress load (weight lifted) more quickly Utilises a large amount of lower limb and

What if I let you in on a little secret that the fitness industry is keeping from you? What if I told you that: All training is “Functional Training” (Ok, not quite all, but a vast majority is… and it’s a better headline) Or to put it this way, by doing what we might call “Traditional Strength Training” you can improve your muscular strength, size, endurance, flexibility and mobility, reduce injury risk, improve your quality of life, and make tasks of daily living easier. Al

I want to take you back to school quickly. Remember at the end of each term when you would dread (or enjoy) taking home your report card to your parents and you were especially worried about what your math teacher had written on it (because you had been slacking off in class). Well, today we are going to try a similar concept, but for your health habits. For most of us, there will be one aspect of our health habits that we excel at, a few that we have enough discipline to man

This article took me far longer than I expected. Every time I sat down to write it, I found myself arguing with myself  about the point I wanted to make. I found myself re-writing this post constantly. I was almost considering making this article into a podcast purely because I thought I might have more clarity on my view by saying it rather than writing it. But I think I’ve worked out what I want to write. So, buckle up. Is lifting technique important? Yes. But some nuance i

Every time I open social media, I am hit with a new post about how good creatine is, but maybe I just follow too many dieticians. In all...