The Worst Thing that Can Happen to a Lifter: Injuries! What bad stuff happens to a lifter? Not...
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Building habits for the life you want
Building habits for the life you want Each of us has only so much energy and time during a given...
Changing up your lifting routine: try some Olympic lifts
With Covid scrambling the schedule for powerlifting meets and the off/on opening of gyms, I have...
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,...
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...
Visualization for Powerlifters
Visualization is the process of using a purely mental rehearsal of a power lift to develop the neural pathways that control your body during the physical execution of the lift. This is training your brain to make your body do what you want it to when you do a...