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In your daily life, you are required to sit down and stand up (squat), bend over to pick up objects (deadlift), walk up and down stairs (lunge), push, pull, and carry heavy objects, etc. While exercises that utilize these movement patterns are very beneficial to your overall strength, sports performance, and aesthetics, they are also so important to your overall health as they will allow you to perform basic daily tasks without getting injured.

Absolutely everybody should include movement training in their workout program. Geoff Chiu discusses how you can implement movement training into your workout program, and explains why it will be beneficial, regardless of what your background is and your training objectives are.

General Health

6 Experts Tell You How To Prevent Gym Injuries -- James Fell & Others

How to Work With a Female Client’s Menstrual Cycle for Better Results  -- Nardia Norman, PTDC

My Body, My Business -- Erin Brown, Girls Gone Strong

A Better Way to Do the Band Pull Apart -- Michael Mash

5 Kettlebell Exercises to Get You Back to Overhead Pressing -- Andrew Millett

Strength Training

From the Ground Up: Strengthen Your Foundation and Build Better Movement -- Abby Clark, Girls Gone Strong

My Four Favorite Core Exercises That Are Safe for All Four Trimesters -- Stacey Schaedler

How to Fix CrossFit – For You -- David Dellanave

Tip: A Better Way to Overhead Press -- John Rusin, T-Nation

Tapering and Peaking: Why and How -- Brandon Roberts

Nutrition

Six Reliable Diet Tweaks for Frustrated Hardgainers -- Eric Bach

The Sneaky Trap that Diets Set to Keep You Stuck (and how to break free) -- Sean Flanagan, Go Kaleo

Just Tell Me What To Eat (No! Ok, Maybe) -- Amy Dix

Bodybuilding

Should You Lift Weights To Failure? -- James Fell, Askmen.com

The Best Cardio for Hardcore Lifters -- T-Nation

5 Brutal Exercise Tweaks for Leg Growth -- Shannan Maciejewski

Tip: Replace the Upright Row -- John Rusin, T-Nation

The Best Single Leg Exercises -- Nate Palmer

Fat Loss

The Deception of “Lose Weight Fast” Plans (And What You Can Do About It) -- Adam Bornstein

The “Leangains” Intermittent Fasting Study Is Finally Here -- Greg Nuckols

11 Habits of Every Successful Dieter -- Ryan Wood