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Powerlifting Over 50

Practice makes perfect: Unless you perfect your mistakes

by | February 16, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Practice makes perfect: Unless you perfect your mistakes With the gym filled by the January rush of newly committed fitness devotees, Im seeing many new and creative ways to perform the three power lifts. Making physical errors in a complex lift is most obvious when...
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Isometrics: Critical for long term strength gains

by | February 16, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Isometrics: Critical for long term strength gains Isometric training is used to produce maximum overload to muscles and to the central nervous system. This is essential to keep making progress and prevent a long gradual slide in strength. Since being introduced to the...
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Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat

by | February 16, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Unusual but Powerful way to Improve Your Squat Could this be a secret new gadget built in a Silicon Valley by AI nerds trying to develop an autonomous Supermanor is it a newly discovered workout program developed by monks in a Tibetan monastery? Nope! It is an almost...
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Partial Squats: An Overlooked Exercise to Build Power

Partial Squats: An Overlooked Exercise to Build Power As all of us can verify, there are dozens of exercises we could do, but we only have the time and energy to do a select few. The goal is to get the most bang for the buck on our work. The partial squat is an...

An unusual way to improve your power lifts: Do them Blind.

An unusual way to improve your power lifts: Do them Blind. Usually when someone pitches a method for increasing your power lifts, the answer will cost you some serious money. Not so with the techniques Im about to discuss. They will be free. Some of you will say they...

An Unusual Method to Build Strength

An Unusual Method to Build Strength All of us are fully on board with lifting weights to build strength. In addition, most of us are occasional (or regular) users of gymnastic techniques to build strength. IMHO there are some other techniques that usually fly under...

Three high value exercises that take almost zero time: plus, a bonus

Three high value exercises that take almost zero time: plus, a bonus I always suggest that whatever exercises one does during their workouts should have provide a high return on your investment (ROI). Your investment in this case is time and energy. Often, we tend to...