Enjoying a Long Healthy Life: You Cant Fool Mother Nature This past week a friend sent me an...
Health over 50
Learning From Experience: Don’t Subvert Yourself
Learning from Experience: Dont Subvert Yourself Learning from our experiences can be tricky,...
At What Age Do You Start to Decline?
At What Age do you Start to Decline? People who do not exercise begin to experience muscle atrophy...
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...
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,...
Exercise Over 50: Five things people often ask before starting a fitness program
Five questions people over 50 ask before they start a fitness program People considering exercising over age 50 have many questions they want to ask. Sometimes it is hard to get a clear answer to these questions. Here are five things that I have found people over 50...
Fitness Over 50: Your key to a great life
Fitness over age 50 is more available to you and easier than your might imagine. Exercise programs for seniors and those who are just nearing the magic age of 50 can bring you decades of looking and feeling fantastic! Your 50's and beyond can be one of the best times...
7 strategies to train hard but not get burned out
Overtraining = too much of a good thing As people who love to lift a lot of heavy stuff, we often find ourselves working too hard in the gym and having our powerlifting performance suffer as a result. The great bulk of the general public equates happiness as being...
Realizing Your Full Potential as a Lifter – Part 1
Over many decades I have observed that when lifters go through a workout, they may or may not get much out of their effort. Specifically, they may or may not get much (or any) benefit from the workout to improve their performance. People put a lot of time and effort...