The Velvet Coffin Where is your fitness journey taking you? We are all familiar with making...
Strength over 50
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity Over many decades working out in gyms, I have...
Build REAL Grip Strength: Dump the Straps
Build REAL Grip Strength: Dump the Straps If you want to have the fragile hands and wimpy grip of...
Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Minimal Program
Cardio Training for Weightlifters: A Minimal Program Cardiovascular conditioning is critical for all lifters, especially those over age 50. Being big and strong is great and a big contributor to your overall health. Cardiovascular health is part of your long game if...
Emerging from our Covid Cocoons: Some Exercises to Build new Skills
Emerging from our Covid Cocoons: Some Exercises to Build new Skills This mornings local newspaper noted that Covid restrictions for the entire state of Oregon could be lifted within a week. To say that the past 15 months have been disturbing for all of us would be an...
Why is Discipline so Hard? Plus Bonus Fat Loss Post
Accomplishing anything that takes commitment over time takes discipline. That is the ability to forgo short term pleasure for working longer term objectives. This work will often be difficult, frustrating, and occasionally dangerous. None of us would ever graduate...
Performance Metrics for Weightlifters: The Useful and the Useless
In recent years there has been a proliferation of fitness apps that record activities during workouts and provide data to the user. IMHO most fitness apps are brain dead and convey minimal information that is of any use. They create an illusion of precision by...
Inexpensive (almost free) Techniques to Improve Your Strength and Power
Inexpensive (almost free) techniques to improve your strength and power. We often fall prey to the idea that it is necessary that a gadget be expensive for it to help us improve our strength and/or power. If something is expensive, we tend to assume that it must be...
Exercise and High Quality Longevity: Some new Tips and Tricks
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