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Powerlifting Over 50

Meaningful Data on Your Workouts

by | August 23, 2024 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

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...
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Preventing Lower Back Injuries with the Kettlebell Swing

by | July 16, 2024 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Muscle over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

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...
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No Brain, No Gain

by | July 16, 2024 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

No Brain, No Gain Having spent many years in gyms, I am consistently surprised by the number of people who work out for years and never seem to make any progress. Not changing much if you are in great condition is probably OK. However, most people who train regularly...
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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...