What can Powerlifters Learn from Golfers

With the Masters Golf Championship being played this week in Augusta, Georgia, I happened to hear an interview on Freakonomics Radio with Greg Norman one of the all-time great golfers. I should note that I know almost nothing about golf. I do not even know where you...

Reviving Your Mind-Muscle Connection After a Layoff: Help for the Bench Press

Covid has forced many of us to train on our own outside our normal gym habitat. When we finally get back in the gym, we discover that we must take some time to get back in shape. Most of us will patiently do our reconditioning for about a week. Any more time than...

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,...