Practice makes perfect: Unless you perfect your mistakes With the gym filled by the January rush...
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Isometrics: Critical for long term strength gains
Isometrics: Critical for long term strength gains Isometric training is used to produce maximum...
Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat
Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat Could this be a secret new gadget built in a...
The Most Important Elements in Heavy Lifting Cannot be Quantified!
The Most Important Elements in Lifting Cannot be Quantified! From time to time, we may be intrigued by various high-tech innovations that promise to elevate our lifting performance. Usually these innovations are old wine in a new bottle, or simply something that could...
When Less is More: Building Strength
When Less is More Being a hard-core gym rat weightlifter type, even in advanced age I find that the temptation to keep working out beyond what I planned to happens to me all the time. When I have finished my planned workout, there is always the little voice in my head...
A Method for Correcting Weak Points in Your Lifts
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
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...
Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen
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
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...