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The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game

by | March 19, 2026 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game In January every year gyms are flooded with new members who have made some sort of personal decision to get in shape. Roughly 90% will quit before February comes around. IMHO this is due in part to...
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Visualization for Powerlifters

by | March 19, 2026 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

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...
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Strength training innovations: Would I want it IF it worked?

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

Strength training innovations: Would I want it IF it worked? About twenty years ago many professional nutritionists advised their clients to avoid eating large amounts of protein because this practice supposedly created liver problems. Now the standard advice more...
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Isometrics: Critical for long term strength gains

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...

The Most Important Elements in Heavy Lifting Cannot be Quantified!

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...

A Method for Correcting Weak Points in Your Lifts

A Method for Correcting Weak Points in Your Lifts Each of us is a unique collection of strong and not so strong muscles. There is a lot more to all of us, but in the weight room we tend to focus on our muscles and not so much on our color perception or music pitch....

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises Building overall body strength and flexibility is one of the best ways to stay on top in the game of life. In this brief article Im going to reacquaint you with two exercises that in my opinion are among the very best for...

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training – II

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training - II As we anticipate an AI stock market crash, let's briefly examine how AI tools can enhance your strength training. I have been working with AI since the 1980s and am not bamboozled by the daydreaming and hype that...

Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult

Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult The overhead squat is one of those movements that find any weak point you may have. This exercise is one of the most demanding of any in the weight training repertoire. However, it is an exercise that you can master by moving...