Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Special Source of Strength Over the many decades I have been...
Men’s fitness over 50
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...
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...
Your Personal Training Management System: Part 3 – Recovering from Exercise
Your Personal Training Management System : Part 3: Recovery "Lifting heavy weights will not make you strong. Lifting heavy weight and recovering will make you very strong." : Dan John Fitness is one of those areas of life where fantasy and wishful thinking can easily...
Your Personal Training Management System: Part 2 – Building Skills
Your Personal Training Management System: Part 2 - Building Skills It is impossible to progress in any activity that requires skill without consciously practicing in ways that help you develop needed skills. For example, it is easy to understand how piano...
Your Personal Data Driven Training Management System: Part 1
Your Personal Data Driven Training Management System: Part 1 None of the regular readers of this newsletter suffer from a lack of energy or enthusiasm for working out. It is almost impossible to keep us out of the gym. Even during Covid restrictions all of...
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...
Key to Continuing Progress for Advanced Lifters: SMALL Improvements
Most readers of this blog will have been lifting for quite a while. The quick and easy progress that came when first starting out is long behind us. As experienced lifters we must tease progress out of progressively more elusive places. When discussing powerlifting...