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Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills
Strength Building: Practice the Invisible Skills Realizing your full potential for lifting heavy...
Practice Like a Pro: Work on the Small Details of Performance
Practice Like a Pro: Work on the Small Details of Performance If you have been competing in...
Deadlifting Injuries: Tips from a long-time powerlifter on preventing them
Deadlifting Injuries: Tips from a long-time powerlifter on preventing them Injuries from deadlifting seem to be occurring more often than in previous decades. Powerlifters have been doing heavy deadlifts ever since the sport began (back in the late 1960s). In recent...
Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit
Use Your Attention to Maximum Benefit Your conscious attention is one of the resources that most people squander. For those of us who lift heavy weights, losing sharp mental focus can significantly diminish our efforts. Having sharp mental focus enables us to devote...
Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right!
Get the Small Stuff right, or you will never get the BIG Stuff right! Being successful at weight training requires attention to a lot of details. Simply showing up and flailing through a workout leads to little (or no) improvement year after year. There is an oft...
The Most Important Elements in 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...
Five Tips for Managing Your Energy: Key to Long Term Progress
Five Tips for Managing Your Energy: Key to Long Term Progress All of us can cheerfully advise others that making progress in heavy lifting requires devoting the time needed to fully recover from a demanding workout. We also advise others that keeping a few reps in the...
Practice Habits: Your key to Long Term Improvement
Practice Habits: Your key to Long Term Improvement Every coach says, do the hard work and pay attention to the details. I constantly harp on doing each of the power lifts with perfect technique. Going beyond these generalizations in real workouts and doing so for many...