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A Method for Correcting Weak Points in Your Lifts

by Richard | Dec 2, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

A Method for Correcting Weak Points in Your Lifts Each of us is a unique collection of strong and not so strong muscles. There is a lot more to all of us, but in the weight room we tend to focus on our muscles and not so much on our color perception or music pitch....

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises

by Richard | Dec 2, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises Building overall body strength and flexibility is one of the best ways to stay on top in the game of life. In this brief article Im going to reacquaint you with two exercises that in my opinion are among the very best for...

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training – II

by Richard | Dec 2, 2025 | Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training – II As we anticipate an AI stock market crash, let’s briefly examine how AI tools can enhance your strength training. I have been working with AI since the 1980s and am not bamboozled by the daydreaming and...

Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult

by Richard | Dec 2, 2025 | Fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult The overhead squat is one of those movements that find any weak point you may have. This exercise is one of the most demanding of any in the weight training repertoire. However, it is an exercise that you can master by moving...

Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen

by Richard | Oct 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen Its often the things that dont happen that are of major importance in your lifting career and your life. However, when things dont happen, the wonks who make wearable fitness trackers dont include them on your...

Isometric Poses for Rehab, Gym Phone Zombies and a Cancer Study

by Richard | Oct 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Isometric Poses for Rehab, Gym Phone Zombies and a Cancer Study Necessity being the mother of invention, I devised a set of isometric poses to help me recover from the weakness brought on by a shoulder dislocation. In the first two months after my fall on the ice...

Making Progress If You Dont Know What to Do

by Richard | Oct 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Making Progress If You Don’t Know What to Do Making progress in our training is our persistent quest. Often we find ourselves stymied or out of answers about what to do to move ahead. The mainstream media and the endless number of influencers offer us mountains...

Partial Squats: An Overlooked Exercise to Build Power

by Richard | Oct 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Partial Squats: An Overlooked Exercise to Build Power As all of us can verify, there are dozens of exercises we could do, but we only have the time and energy to do a select few. The goal is to get the most bang for the buck on our work. The partial squat is an...

An unusual way to improve your power lifts: Do them Blind.

by Richard | Aug 11, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

An unusual way to improve your power lifts: Do them Blind. Usually when someone pitches a method for increasing your power lifts, the answer will cost you some serious money. Not so with the techniques Im about to discuss. They will be free. Some of you will say they...

Becoming the best lifter you can be: Developing Self-Awareness

by Richard | Aug 11, 2025 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50

Becoming the best lifter you can be: Developing Self-Awareness Most readers of this blog have been working hard at one or many fitness activities for a very long time. Each of us is diligent about performing the best we can and are always on the lookout for a way to...
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