Weight Training Over 50

Strength training innovations: Would I want it IF it worked?

Strength training innovations: Would I want it IF it worked? About twenty years ago many professional nutritionists advised their clients to avoid eating large amounts of protein because this practice supposedly created liver problems. Now the standard advice more...

The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game

The Inner Game of Powerlifting: Key to Improvement in Your Outer Game In January every year gyms are flooded with new members who have made some sort of personal decision to get in shape. Roughly 90% will quit before February comes around. IMHO this is due in part to...

Practice makes perfect: Unless you perfect your mistakes

Practice makes perfect: Unless you perfect your mistakes With the gym filled by the January rush of newly committed fitness devotees, Im seeing many new and creative ways to perform the three power lifts. Making physical errors in a complex lift is most obvious when...

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises

Big Benefits from Some Rarely Used Exercises Building overall body strength and flexibility is one of the best ways to stay on top in the game of life. In this brief article Im going to reacquaint you with two exercises that in my opinion are among the very best for...

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training – II

Artificial Intelligence and Strength Training - II As we anticipate an AI stock market crash, let's briefly examine how AI tools can enhance your strength training. I have been working with AI since the 1980s and am not bamboozled by the daydreaming and hype that...

Overhead Squat: Easy to Killer Difficult

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...

Critical Things you Cant Measure: Because they Dont Happen

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...

Isometric Poses for Rehab, Gym Phone Zombies and a Cancer Study

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...

Making Progress If You Dont Know What to Do

Making Progress If You Don't Know What to Do Making progress in our training is our persistent quest. Often we find ourselves stymied or out of answers about what to do to move ahead. The mainstream media and the endless number of influencers offer us mountains of...