Mid Life Hard Body

Weight Training Over 50

What can weightlifters learn from “Moneyball”?

by | January 4, 2023 | Anti-aging fitness, Exercise Over 50, Fitness Data, Fitness over 50, Health over 50, Men's fitness over 50, Strength over 50, Weight Training Over 50 | 0 Comments

What can weightlifters learn from Moneyball? In the past few weeks I have been reading books written by Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball the classic study of how the Oakland As were able to use statistical data to gain a competitive edge in searching for...
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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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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...

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...