Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right! Being successful at weight...
Fitness over 50
Five Tips for Managing Your Energy: Key to Long Term Progress
Five Tips for Managing Your Energy: Key to Long Term Progress All of us can cheerfully advise...
Your inner coach #2
Your inner coach #2 Last week I introduced you to your three inner coaches. One of them deals with...
Unanticipated Layoffs: How Much Conditioning do You Lose?
Unanticipated Layoffs: How Much Conditioning do You Lose? Unplanned layoffs can disrupt our training occasionally. How much conditioning a person will lose is always on our minds when our regular training schedule is disrupted. An ice storm hit my city this week and...
Longevity in Lifting and in Life
Thoughts on Longevity in Lifting and in Life In about six months, Ill celebrate birthday number 84. Hard to believe given that I feel as if Im at least 20 years younger than thatif not more. While life offers no guarantees, I believe there are some things that anyone...
Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Special Source of Strength
Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Special Source of Strength Over the many decades I have been both running and lifting weights, I have observed that the two fitness communities around these activities tend to regard the other with great suspicion. Runners tend to...
The Long Game: Some thoughts on how I’m still powerlifting at 83
The Long Game: Some thoughts on how Im still powerlifting at 83 Im 83 and getting ready to lift in a powerlifting meet in mid-August. I competed in my first powerlifting meet in 1987 in a career that includes doing meets in five decades. How does this happen? Besides...
Technique to help you add 15-20 pounds to your deadlift in 2 months
Technique to help you add 15-20 pounds to your deadlift in 2 months Many of us find improving our deadlift above a long established 1 rep max is very difficult. Often we are stuck at the same top weight for a few years. Increasing our own personal limit can be very...
Adapting a training technique from Olympic Lifting for power training: The two rep set
Adapting a training technique from Olympic Lifting for power training: The two rep set Over decades of power training, I have found that there is a tendency to divide workouts into conditioning training using high rep sets with lighter weights and those where you work...