Practice CAN improve performance Among the many clichs that we are exposed to as we go through...
Men’s fitness over 50
A Super Cheap Power Training Equipment Idea: HUGE value for the $
A Super Cheap Power Training Equipment Idea: HUGE value for the $ In the never-ending scramble to...
Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit
Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit Your conscious attention is one of the resources that most...
Four Simple Exercises to Reduce Your Chance of Injury
Four Simple Exercises to Reduce Your Chance of Injury As all of you know the worst thing that can happen to an athlete is not losing a game, it is getting injured. When you get hurt you cant play! Winning or losing lasts about 10 minutes. getting hurt can last for...
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...
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...