by Richard | Mar 21, 2021 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Muscle over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
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,...
by Richard | Mar 15, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
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...
by Richard | Mar 15, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
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...
by Richard | Mar 15, 2021 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Your Personal Data Driven Training Management System: Part 1 None of the regular readers of this newsletter suffer from a lack of energy or enthusiasm for working out. It is almost impossible to keep us out of the gym. Even during Covid restrictions all of...
by Richard | Aug 18, 2020 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fat loss over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Five questions people over 50 ask before they start a fitness program People considering exercising over age 50 have many questions they want to ask. Sometimes it is hard to get a clear answer to these questions. Here are five things that I have found people over 50...
by Richard | Aug 10, 2020 | Anti-aging fitness, Fat loss over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Fitness over age 50 is more available to you and easier than your might imagine. Exercise programs for seniors and those who are just nearing the magic age of 50 can bring you decades of looking and feeling fantastic! Your 50’s and beyond can be one of the best...
by Richard | Aug 15, 2019 | Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Uncategorized, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
I had thought of calling this a technique to get “perfect form” but decided there was no such thing as “perfect” form for any lift. We just try to get as close as possible to perfection. This is a drill you can do 2-3 times a week as part of...
by Richard | Aug 8, 2019 | Fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Visualization is the process of using a purely mental rehearsal of a power lift to develop the neural pathways that control your body during the physical execution of the lift. This is training your brain to make your body do what you want it to when you do a...
by Richard | Aug 8, 2019 | Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Most readers of this blog will have been lifting for quite a while. The quick and easy progress that came when first starting out is long behind us. As experienced lifters we must tease progress out of progressively more elusive places. When discussing powerlifting...
by Richard | Mar 20, 2019 | Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50
Overtraining = too much of a good thing As people who love to lift a lot of heavy stuff, we often find ourselves working too hard in the gym and having our powerlifting performance suffer as a result. The great bulk of the general public equates happiness as being...