A coach gives tips to an athlete who is holding a medicine ball.
Tips for Coaching

Coach Preparation Tips

Coaches: Are you Under Preparing or Overcoaching? Written by Kirsten Ahrendt Have you ever coached a class and felt ineffective, or as though you could’ve

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Female athlete using an ab strength wheel prototype.
anatomy and physiology

Can Your Period Predict Your Pants-Peeing?

Written by Michele Vieux Ladies – do you wonder why you struggle to control the flow of urine during

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Female Olympic lifter and her coach giving the double-high five to each other.
Olympic Lifting, Thought Provoking, mindset

Patience: Applications to Weightlifting, Sports & Life

Patience: Applications to Weightlifting, Sports & Life Written by Fritz Nugent I would like to use Sarwar as an example here. Many of you know

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Olympic Lifting, weightlifting

What Does “Patience” in Weightlifting Mean?

https://youtu.be/VoPBPDAwiM8 What Does “Patience” in Weightlifting Mean? Written by Jared Enderton What does being “patient” in the Snatch or the Clean mean? It just means

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Female athlete warms up with double-under before a weightlifting event.
Thought Provoking, success stories

How I Lost 100 Pounds

Written by Samie Acevedo This isn’t your typical weight loss story. Often we label weight loss as “success stories” because

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A female athlete facing away from the camera doing a PVC warm-up for snatching.
anatomy and physiology, exercises

Nervous System Training

Written by Kaija Stern, Bryce Smith, TJ O’Brien & Ricky Moore In the gym, we spend a lot of focus on our

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Woman holding pregnant belly.
Tips for Coaching, anatomy and physiology, exercises, philosophy

Pregnancy Training: Coning & Doming

Pregnancy Training: Coning & Doming Written by Kirsten Ahrendt Recently we had a member who is 32 weeks prego, have coning occurring during our pull-up

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Face-down athlete does PVC passthroughs.
mindset, philosophy

Escaping the Injury Funk

Written by TJ O’Brien Doesn’t life just suck sometimes? That’s how I’ve been feeling since that neck injury I sustained in

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Male athlete wearing a singlet in the bottom on the weightlifting platform.
Nutrition, Olympic Lifting, weightlifting

Olympic Weightlifting and Fat Loss

Written by Fritz Nugent It’s a fact. Training in general doesn’t burn much more fat than not training. Crazy, you

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Invictus coach with hands on hips giving "a look".
Thought Provoking, mindset

Learning to Lose

Written by TJ O’Brien “Man, last week TJ pretty much made Jiu Jitsu his whole personality, but I haven’t heard him talk

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Mike and Vickie standing in front of a barbell while holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes.
success stories

100% Mike – An Athlete’s Voyage for Quality

Written by Michele Vieux As soon as you meet Invictus Athlete, Mike Paesano, it’s obvious that there’s

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Two female athletes cheer on a third who is riding the Assault Bike so hard that her hair is blowing everywhere.
Tips for Coaching, exercises, philosophy

Modifying for an Athlete with a History of Low Back Issues

Written by TJ O’Brien Do you cringe when deadlifts or kettlebell swings show up

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exercises

3 Points of Performance for Hinging Movements

Written by Kirsten Ahrendt Here’s a quick review of some of the finer points of hinging. This is

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Coach Fritz being overshadowed by the massiveness of Machu Pichu terraces.
anatomy and physiology, philosophy

Periodization: Terraces, Elevation and Corn

  Written by Fritz Nugent How do these three things come together in a beautiful metaphor for periodization? Well, let

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Invictus Masters Athlete, MA, holding a barbell overhead.
success stories

MA’s Competitive Journey

Interview by Nichole Kribs Meet Marianne Flannery (aka MA). She has been an Invictus athlete since 2021 and competes in the 40-44

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