Mid Life Hard Body

Strength over 50

Where does fat go when you lose it? Mainly out of your mouth.

by | November 6, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fat loss over 50, Fitness over 50, Losing weight over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Where does fat go when you lose it? Mainly out of your mouth. For someone who has been involved in physical fitness activities for decades, I was surprised to find that I didnt know the precise answer to this question. There is was in my daily news update from MIT...
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Learn to listen to your body: Key to building strength and endurance

by | November 6, 2022 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Powerlifting Over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Learn to listen to your body: Key to building strength and endurance Back in the 1970s the first US based research on factors impacting sports performance emerged. When the running boom was in its early stages, a few psychologists began trying to figure out what elite...
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Practicing things you don’t like: The key to improvement

by | September 4, 2022 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fat loss over 50, Health over 50, Over 50 lifestyle, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Mid Life Hard Body Practicing Things You Dont Like: Key to Improvement Sadly, the universe does not care about what each of us likes and doesnt like. Our opinions and preferences dont have an impact in the physical world. This inconvenient reality means that to make...
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Improve your lifting: Find your Blind Spots

Last night my wifes granddaughter was at dinner with us. She is a hot shot high school basketball player currently getting ready for her senior season. While discussing her pre-season training, she mentioned one of her team mates who practices all the time, and never...

Tricks for Getting Tougher: Check out “The Iceman”

Im always harping on the necessity of learning new things that could help your lifting and fitness. A few months ago, I read a book called The Way of the Iceman that I believe has some valuable insights that can help both regular fitness people and those of us who are...

Stay fit while traveling: Quick Tips

When I first began regular business traveling in the 1970s, most people considered working out to be a form of mental illness. Things are very different now. There are usually good gyms in almost any town. You will find people running on the street in the most remote...

The Value of a Great Powerlifting Coach

If you have been competing for a while, you probably know the value of working with a good coach. An experienced powerlifting coach can help you in ways that no one else can. The main reason for this is that doing competition legal power lifts at or near your maximum...

Secrets for a LONG career in powerlifting

As many of you know, I have been lifting weights seriously for a LONG time....62 years to be exact. In that time, I have competed in both Olympic style lifting and did 25 years of powerlifting competition. I also competed as a runner for 22 years and played all the...

Under used Assistance Training for Strength and Health

Athletes over age 50 need all the clever tricks they can find to stay on top of their game. In this newsletter, Ill discuss one of the more overlooked (or actively ignored) areas of assistance training for building power. It is a secret? Not exactly. Its just that...