The Power of Persistence: An Unbeatable Formula when Paired with Learning One of my favorite...
Exercise Over 50
When Less is More: Give Yourself a Gift
When Less is More: Give Yourself a Gift As a devoted practitioner of fitness there are some free...
Lifting Weights for 68 Years: Whats New and Different?
Lifting Weights for 68 Years: Whats New and Different? I began lifting weights in 1955and yes we...
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...
Your First Powerlifting Meet
Your first powerlifting meet can be an exciting, exhilarating and rewarding experience. It can also be frustrating, confusing and humbling. If you know what to expect, and what you must do to be prepared, good things are more likely to happen. I have enjoyed competing...
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 can easily...
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...
Your Personal Data Driven Training Management System: Part 1
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...