A 5-second trick to help overcome physical weaknesses. As longtime lifters we gradually move into...
Powerlifting Over 50
The Power of Persistence: An Unbeatable Formula when Paired with Learning
The Power of Persistence: An Unbeatable Formula when Paired with Learning One of my favorite...
Lifting Weights for 68 Years: Whats New and Different?
Lifting Weights for 68 Years: Whats New and Different? I began lifting weights in 1955and yes we...
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...
Fool Proof Method For Developing Great Technique in the Squat
I had thought of calling this a technique to get "perfect form" but decided there was no such thing as "perfect" form for any lift. We just try to get as close as possible to perfection. This is a drill you can do 2-3 times a week as part of your warmups. It is called...
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...
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...
7 strategies to train hard but not get burned out
Overtraining = too much of a good thing As people who love to lift a lot of heavy stuff, we often find ourselves working too hard in the gym and having our powerlifting performance suffer as a result. The great bulk of the general public equates happiness as being...