Your Inner Coach #3- Muscle Control Exerting control over your muscles is essential for putting...
Muscle over 50
Longevity and Lifting Weights
Longevity and Lifting Weights It is nearly impossible to put a value on the positive aspects of...
Recovery: When You Make all the Gains
Recovery: When You Make all the Gains There is an underappreciated quote from the legendary coach...
Meaningful Data on Your Workouts
Meaningful Data on Your Workouts Powerlifting is all about numbers. But numbers alone don't mean anything unless they're related to some significant purpose you are trying to achieve. Many of us keep detailed data on our workouts. It is important that the data we keep...
Preventing Lower Back Injuries with the Kettlebell Swing
Preventing Lower Back Injuries With the Kettlebell Swing Preventing injuries is vastly superior to doing rehab. A huge percentage of American men will suffer from lower back problems. Depending on the source used as many as 80% of men will have a back problem at some...
Health Span and Weight Training
Health Span and Weight Training This past week an article in the New Yorker noted that while Americans seem to be living longer, the years beyond 65 are often ones of very poor health. The health span of the US population has not increased much while people stay alive...
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...
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...
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity Over many decades working out in gyms, I have noticed that the value of an exercise is often inversely proportional to how often people do it. The exception would be the deadlift which seems to be relatively popular...