Making Improvements as an Experienced Lifter We are all aware of how easy it is for a beginning...
Weight Training Over 50
Mini Practice: Stealth opportunities for valuable strength building
Mini Practice: Stealth opportunities for valuable strength building Most of us make a clear...
Fitness Metrics: Stick to what is important
Fitness Metrics: Stick to what is important The fitness market is awash in apps that promise...
Three Quick Tips for Speeding Your Reconditioning After Covid Shutdown
In the past month or so many of the gyms we have been missing have begun to open again. My gym of choice only opened again on April Fools Day. Many of us who have been working out but did not have access to barbells are back pursuing heavy lifting. The last thing any...
What can Powerlifters Learn from Golfers
With the Masters Golf Championship being played this week in Augusta, Georgia, I happened to hear an interview on Freakonomics Radio with Greg Norman one of the all-time great golfers. I should note that I know almost nothing about golf. I do not even know where you...
Reviving Your Mind-Muscle Connection After a Layoff: Help for the Bench Press
Covid has forced many of us to train on our own outside our normal gym habitat. When we finally get back in the gym, we discover that we must take some time to get back in shape. Most of us will patiently do our reconditioning for about a week. Any more time than...
Learning From Failure: Ideas for Powerlifters from the Harvard Business Review
Everyone pays lip service to the idea that we should learn from your mistakes. That is a nice idea, but it sidesteps the issue of precisely what you are supposed to learn and how? If you are going to learn something it must be useful for managing your training or...
Your First Powerlifting Meet
Your first powerlifting meet can be an exciting, exhilarating and rewarding experience. It can also be frustrating, confusing and humbling. If you know what to expect, and what you must do to be prepared, good things are more likely to happen. I have enjoyed competing...
Your Personal Training Management System: Part 3 – Recovering from Exercise
Your Personal Training Management System : Part 3: Recovery "Lifting heavy weights will not make you strong. Lifting heavy weight and recovering will make you very strong." : Dan John Fitness is one of those areas of life where fantasy and wishful thinking can easily...