Welcome To TrainWithThom

Ramblings by Thom Rieck - Strength and Conditioning Coach, World Explorer, Wellness Enthusiast, Avid Motorcyclist, and Jack of a Couple of Trades.

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How to Turn Your Home Office Into a Workday Gym

Do you prefer to get your workout in bit-by-bit during the workday instead of going to the gym? Or perhaps you just want to start breaking up the monotony with some more healthy habits? Here’s how to turn your office (or the corner where you work) into a place you can also work out.

NEAT for the win!

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Why Cardio and Strength Training Are Both Important

I’ve been on both sides of the fence. As a runner, I would go months without lifting a weight or doing any purposeful strength training, because who has the time? And in my more recent life as a lifter, I’d join in the joking about how more than ten reps is cardio, hur hur hur. But here’s the truth: we all need strength training and real cardio.

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Exercise at Home With YouTube: Videos to Avoid and Videos to Watch

From exercise safety to the tone of the workout messages, learn how to find the right videos for you and get the most from your online workouts.

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Exclusive body transformation research: We analyzed a year’s worth of data from 1,000 nutrition coaching clients to find out how much effort it really takes to make meaningful change—to your body, your health, and even how you feel about yourself. These findings could shift the way you think about weight loss and health improvement forever. And most important, help you (or your clients) more easily achieve the sustainable results everyone wants.

#MotorcycleFitness

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If You Don't Have Time for a Workout, Try Exercise 'Snacks' Instead

If you don’t have time to exercise, welcome to the club. (I do exercise a lot, but some days I get overwhelmed by how much time and effort it takes to commit to an entire workout done in gym clothes at a specific place and time.) A way around this: the exercise snack.

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Exclusive body transformation research: We analyzed a year’s worth of data from 1,000 nutrition coaching clients to find out how much effort it really takes to make meaningful change—to your body, your health, and even how you feel about yourself. These findings could shift the way you think about weight loss and health improvement forever. And most important, help you (or your clients) more easily achieve the sustainable results everyone wants.

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Sweet potatoes vs. potatoes: A nutritional debate fueled by misinformation, baseless ‘superfood’ obsessions, and carbohydrate phobias. Here’s how these tubers compare — and why both deserve a place in your diet.

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Here's the secret to a long life: keep moving

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My house is filled with sweets this time of year. Can I use them instead of sport gels and gummies for long runs and bike rides?

Tis the season!

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As head of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, Brian Wansink built a career portfolio out of questionable research practices. His resignation has prompted a call for massive reforms in the profession.

Amazing and very sad... 

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Welcome Adventure Rider Radio listeners!!

 Thanks for visiting - check out my latest project: Riding every single road in Minnesota 

https://ridingminnesota.blogspot.com/

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Turns out extending your lifespan is pretty damn easy. Just follow these definitive, scientific, time-tested methods.

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Hip-based activity tracking devices varied in accuracy but performed better than their wrist-based counterparts for step accuracy. Distance measurements for both types of devices were more consistent but lacked accuracy.

Finally published!! 

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How Not To Make Coffee

How you make coffee is, you bring the dried and roasted and probably ground seeds of a Coffea plant together with some water, typically hot, for some period of time, and this turns the water into coffee. That’s it. It is not a complicated procedure.

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80 Percent of Health Advice on ‘The Doctors’ Is Unproven

When the doctors on The Doctors recommend a certain treatment or diet or supplement, you figure there’s probably some truth to their recommendation, right? But a survey of their advice, along with the Dr. Oz Show’s, finds that most of it is probably not worth heeding.

#ImagineThat

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ACE - Certified™: March 2018 - ACE-SPONSORED RESEARCH: Active vs. Passive Recovery and Exercise Performance: Which Strategy Is Best?

Recovery from exercise training is a vital component of the overall exercise program, and is essential for optimal performance and continued progression. To help determine the best recovery strategy for optimizing the benefits derived from a training program, ACE enlisted a team of researchers at Western State Colorado University to investigate the effects of recovery on performance.

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4 Exercises to Leave Behind This Year

To keep evolving and training clients in the most effective ways, here are four exercises that should be left behind in 2017, along with some much safer and more effective replacements.