If you’re not consuming enough water before, during, and after your workouts during these hot summer months, you’re essentially sabotaging the gains you’re making from all that hard work.

Not only that, if you aren’t properly hydrated, your performance will also be hindered at the gym, which means you won’t be able to go as hard or as heavy, and that means less EFFORT and fewer results.

To some extent, we all know that hydration is crucial. Yet, many of us still don’t drink enough water every day. Why is that?

Rest days are crucial because the real magic happens in between your workouts while you’re recovering.

Know what’s cool about foam rolling? Nothing. That’s why it’s time to throw that old-school, pool-noodle phrase away.

What if I told you that you could decrease your recovery time between training sessions? Or that you could quickly make a painful tissue feel better? Or heck, even improve your ability to achieve positions you use while training more easily? Well, that isn’t foam rolling. Please let me introduce you instead to soft tissue mobilization.

A lot of us probably recall the RICE protocol for dealing with injuries — Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate. Well, it turns out that this approach to acute injuries is actually pretty outdated and not the type of cold we’re talking about today. You still want to rest and elevate after an injury, but icing it is actually up for debate.

But what about deliberate, full-body cold exposure via cold air, cold shower, or full-body immersion?