Learning From Failure: Ideas for Powerlifters from the Harvard Business Review

Everyone pays lip service to the idea that we should learn from your mistakes. That is a nice idea, but it sidesteps the issue of precisely what you are supposed to learn and how? If you are going to learn something it must be useful for managing your training or...

5 Tricks I learned working out during the Covid lockdown

It was about a year ago that they gyms in my area were put in lockdown because of Covid. For the first time since I was an obnoxious teenager I could not go to a gym to play with barbells and other heavy objects. This was a day I thought would never come. However,...

Your Personal Training Management System: Part 3 – Recovering from Exercise

Your Personal Training Management System : Part 3: Recovery “Lifting heavy weights will not make you strong. Lifting heavy weight and recovering will make you very strong.” : Dan John Fitness is one of those areas of life where fantasy and wishful thinking...

Your Personal Training Management System: Part 2 – Building Skills

Your Personal Training Management System: Part 2 – Building Skills It is impossible to progress in any activity that requires skill without consciously practicing in ways that help you develop needed skills.  For example, it is easy to understand how piano...