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The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game

by | March 19, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game In January every year gyms are flooded with new members who have made some sort of personal decision to get in shape. Roughly 90% will quit before February comes around. IMHO this is due in part to...
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Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat

by | February 16, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat Could this be a secret new gadget built in a Silicon Valley by AI nerds trying to develop an autonomous Supermanor is it a newly discovered workout program developed by monks in a Tibetan monastery? Nope! It is an almost...
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When Less is More: Building Strength

by | December 2, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

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...
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Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult

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

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...

Making Progress If You Dont Know What to Do

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 of...

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

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

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...