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Powerlifting Over 50

Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit

by | March 23, 2025 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit Your conscious attention is one of the resources that most people squander. For those of us who lift heavy weights, losing sharp mental focus can significantly diminish our efforts. Having sharp mental focus enables us to devote...
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Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right!

by | February 1, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right! Being successful at weight training requires attention to a lot of details. Simply showing up and flailing through a workout leads to little (or no) improvement year after year. There is an oft...
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The Most Important Elements in Lifting Cannot be Quantified!

by | February 1, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

The Most Important Elements in Lifting Cannot be Quantified! From time to time, we may be intrigued by various high-tech innovations that promise to elevate our lifting performance. Usually these innovations are old wine in a new bottle, or simply something that could...
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Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Minimal Program

Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Minimal Program Cardiovascular conditioning is critical for all lifters, especially those over age 50. Being big and strong is great and a big contributor to your overall health. Cardiovascular health is part of your long game if...

Emerging from our Covid Cocoons: Some Exercises to Build new Skills

Emerging from our Covid Cocoons: Some Exercises to Build new Skills This mornings local newspaper noted that Covid restrictions for the entire state of Oregon could be lifted within a week. To say that the past 15 months have been disturbing for all of us would be an...

Why is Discipline so Hard? Plus Bonus Fat Loss Post

Accomplishing anything that takes commitment over time takes discipline. That is the ability to forgo short term pleasure for working longer term objectives. This work will often be difficult, frustrating, and occasionally dangerous. None of us would ever graduate...

Performance Metrics for Weightlifters: The Useful and the Useless

In recent years there has been a proliferation of fitness apps that record activities during workouts and provide data to the user. IMHO most fitness apps are brain dead and convey minimal information that is of any use. They create an illusion of precision by...

Exercise and High Quality Longevity: Some new Tips and Tricks

Exercise and High-Quality Longevity: Some new Tricks and Tips High quality longevity means getting old(er) and feeling great. It means not having physical limitations on what you want to do (within reason). As I write this article Im a month from being 81 years old...