The Most Important Elements in Lifting Cannot be Quantified! From time to time, we may be...
Strength over 50
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...
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...
Train for Durability: Maybe Your Biggest Payoff
Train for Durability: Maybe Your Biggest Payoff The idea of training for durability is probably not a front line notion for most power sport enthusiasts. Ill suggest that over the arc of your life durability may turn out to be the best workout investment you ever...
Can You Get Stronger When You are Over 80? My experience.
Can You Get Stronger When You are Over 80? My experience. At the tender age of 82 Im still lifting weightsoften heavy weights. I have been working out regularly for roughly 67 years. I have emphasized different sports or training approaches during that time, but...
The Velvet Coffin Where is your fitness journey taking you?
The Velvet Coffin Where is your fitness journey taking you? We are all familiar with making decisions about weight loss, training cycles, and workout programs. These are the routine decisions we make all the time. Few of us ever pause and think about the long game....
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity
Two unusual exercises: big benefit zero popularity Over many decades working out in gyms, I have noticed that the value of an exercise is often inversely proportional to how often people do it. The exception would be the deadlift which seems to be relatively popular...
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 a 90-year-old, lifting straps and gloves will do the job for you. Over the past few years I have seen more and more people lifting weights using straps to augment their...
Focus on the Process of Improvement not on Resolution Goals
Focus on the Process of Improvement not on Resolution Goals With Christmas just past we are entering that magical time of year when half the population resolves to lose at least 20 pounds and make massive changes for the better. In a month about 98% of these...