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Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult

by | December 2, 2025 | Fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

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...
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Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen

by | October 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen Its often the things that dont happen that are of major importance in your lifting career and your life. However, when things dont happen, the wonks who make wearable fitness trackers dont include them on your...
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Isometric Poses for Rehab, Gym Phone Zombies and a Cancer Study

by | October 6, 2025 | Exercise Over 50, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Longevity fitness, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

Isometric Poses for Rehab, Gym Phone Zombies and a Cancer Study Necessity being the mother of invention, I devised a set of isometric poses to help me recover from the weakness brought on by a shoulder dislocation. In the first two months after my fall on the ice...
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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...

Important Workout Data and Useless Information

Important Workout Data and Useless Information Any athlete who is serious about improving their performance must track some key indicators of how they are doing. The importance of the indicators is not always consistent with how easily they are measured. Some of the...

Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills

Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills Realizing your full potential for lifting heavy weights or doing some other feat of strength is dependent on being able to mobilize your muscles to do a very difficult movement. The most important action in producing...