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Fitness over 50

New Deadlift Training Approach: Rack Pulls, Speed Pulls and Isometrics

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

New Deadlift Training Approach: Rack Pulls, Speed Pulls and Isometrics A couple years ago I published a blog about the Paul Anderson power rack method to build a big deadlift. In the past month I have devised a slightly more elaborate scheme to enhance the impact of...
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Important Workout Data and Useless Information

by | July 2, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Important Workout Data and Useless Information Any athlete who is serious about improving their performance must track some key indicators of how they are doing. The importance of the indicators is not always consistent with how easily they are measured. Some of the...
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Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills

by | July 2, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills Realizing your full potential for lifting heavy weights or doing some other feat of strength is dependent on being able to mobilize your muscles to do a very difficult movement. The most important action in producing...
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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...