We like to think we can tell ourselves what to do—that we’re fully in control and we just need to muster up our will power and get to work. Well, we are silly. It doesn’t really work that way. In fact, it doesn’t work that way at all. We’re a mass of unconscious drives that’s...Read More

Human beings are strange creatures. We’re surrounded by all of these things that could potentially make us happy—like success and the associated positive emotions—but it’s rare that we stretch ourselves and seek them out. Mostly, we spend our efforts trying to avoid bad things we might fail at, rather than actively taking steps toward good...Read More

People that exercise typically want their workouts to be challenging in some way, but challenge runs way deeper than that. Challenge is a way for us to examine ourselves, where we currently stand, and close the gap toward where we’d like to be. They’re also a hell of a lot of fun. Beyond seeking out...Read More

BasicSkill, BasicsKill is a little saying we’ve coined around here. It’s representative of a simple philosophy: get great at the basic exercises and keep doing them because they produce results. That’s why, at BSP NOVA, we focus on getting good at things like squatting, hinging, pushing with our upper-bodies, pulling with our upper-bodies, crawling, and...Read More

In last week’s blog we outlined 5 Reasons to Warm-up With Weights. Today, we’re going to expand on warming up and give you a strategy for your weight warm-up—and answer some warm-up FAQs.   Ok, let’s dance.   . It Begins with RPE Last week we gave a brief description of RPE, or Rate of...Read More

Warm-ups that get the body moving are great—especially ones that start on the ground and progress to the feet. They prepare the body for a wide range of movements and build movement skills that carry us through life. And, they actually get us warm. But, when it comes to warming up for strength training, they...Read More

“I don’t know what this is, but I know this is what my son needs right now.  Is this strength and conditioning?” A father recently asked this question as he stood with coach Chris, watching his son’s first full training session here at Beyond Strength Performance NOVA, LLC.  His son wasn’t doing the “traditional” strength...Read More

Change is hard—that’s why people have a difficult time doing it.  Life is busy, our time is limited, and 1,000 different things are pulling us in 1,000,000 different directions.  It’s tough to keep on the path toward progress while also managing the craziness of our everyday lives.  That’s the reality we’re faced with as modern...Read More

Here’s something you’ll find easy to believe: most fitness marketing doesn’t tell you the whole truth—shocker, right? From As Seen on TV gadgets, to hyper-fast fat loss advertisements from the new gym around the corner, to detox programs, we are inundated with information that tells us that transformation is low-effort if we only do what...Read More