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Exercise Over 50

Deadlifting Injuries: Tips from a long-time powerlifter on preventing them

by | March 23, 2025 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Deadlifting Injuries: Tips from a long-time powerlifter on preventing them Injuries from deadlifting seem to be occurring more often than in previous decades. Powerlifters have been doing heavy deadlifts ever since the sport began (back in the late 1960s). In recent...
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Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit

by | March 23, 2025 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit Your conscious attention is one of the resources that most people squander. For those of us who lift heavy weights, losing sharp mental focus can significantly diminish our efforts. Having sharp mental focus enables us to devote...
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Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right!

by | February 1, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right! Being successful at weight training requires attention to a lot of details. Simply showing up and flailing through a workout leads to little (or no) improvement year after year. There is an oft...
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Longevity and Fitness – Secrets of an 84 Year Old Powerlifter

Longevity, Fitness and Training Secrets If youre not doing it, you dont know it - Tony Robbins At the tender age of 84 I believe I have earned the right to talk about longevity.both in general and in terms of fitness. When discussing longevity I always emphasize that...

Two Major Principles for Life and Working Out

Two Major Principles for Life and Working Out For those of us who pursue long term goals, there are two tightly linked principles that IMHO are extremely important to remember as we embark on various projects in fitness and in other parts of our lives. People always...

Cutting Edge Innovations in Fitness and Health: Buyer Beware!

Cutting Edge Innovations in Fitness and Health: Buyer Beware! There are a staggering number of products and programs offered for sale in the fitness and health universe. Many of these are marketed as significant innovations. Most of us have developed a reasonable...

Golf and Powerlifting: Some Surprising Similarities

Golf and Powerlifting: Some Surprising Similarities To achieve a high level of performance in both golf and powerlifting excellent balance is required. This is an underappreciated training requirement for both sports that is rarely discussed in the literature on...

Dont Get Old Before Your Time!

Dont Get Old Before Your Time! How many people have that OMG experience when they suddenly become aware of how lousy they look and feel at an age when they should be in their prime? They feel ancient and look ten or twenty years older than they actually are. When a...