Golf and Powerlifting: Some Surprising Similarities To achieve a high level of performance in both...
Powerlifting Over 50
Latest Research on Weight Training: Much Less There than Meets the Eye
Latest Research on Weight Training: Much Less There than Meets the Eye Hardly a week goes by when...
A 5-second trick to help overcome physical weaknesses.
A 5-second trick to help overcome physical weaknesses. As longtime lifters we gradually move into...
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...
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...