The latest trend in strength training that’s spread like wildfire is “movement optimism” – that is, focusing on making every exercise and every rep as biomechanically “optimal” as possible. On its face, this sounds great. Time is precious, so let’s waste no time and try to get as big a return on our efforts as …
Powerlifting training involves a series of calculated risks. You lift weights that are heavy and challenging, over and over, in order to be able to lift heavier and more challenging weights over time. Lift too light and you won’t make progress. Lift too heavy too often and you’ll burn out. It’s a tightrope walk with …
Over a decade of coaching team sport athletes, powerlifters and everyone in between, I’ve seen my share of injuries and the ways in which strength coaches can help athletes return to their sport. It’s not the coach’s job to fix or prevent injuries, but the way we coach and program for our lifters can play …
Here’s an excerpt about supplementary exercises from my free e-book, Seek and Destroy: A Powerlifter’s Guide to Identifying Weak Points and Improving Technique. It’s got over 90 pages of information to teach you how to pick exercises and program them to eliminate your own specific weaknesses as a powerlifter. And it’s all yours when you …
A few weeks back, I hosted my Powerlifting Program Design seminar and got to present my coaching and programming approach that I’ve developed over the past decade. That’s the good news. The bad news: I only got through about 75 percent of the material I planned to present. I guess I can be a bit long …
Here’s an age-old sports cliche: it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. When it comes to the bench press, it’s hard to finish what you started if you can’t lock out heavy weights. The lockout relies mostly on the triceps to extend the elbows. And while it doesn’t take much convincing to get …
Top 5 Triceps Exercises to Improve Your Bench Press Lockout Read More »
Last weekend saw eight lifters represent team Bonvec Strength at the 2023 WRPF North American Championship in Las Vegas. It’s the most lifters we’ve had at a single national-level meet. By and large, our lifters did incredibly well, securing a handful national records, state records and podium placings. We experienced our fair share of challenges …
People love to argue about which strength training program is the best, as if one single prefabricated approach is going to be significantly better for the majority of people than any other program out there (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing). If you truly understand what foundational principles are necessary for any program to be …
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Here’s a preview of one of the sections in my newest e-book, Seek and Destroy: A Powerlifter’s Guide to Identifying Weak Points and Improving Technique. It’s available for free to my mailing list subscribers, so sign up here to download your copy (and get free training content delivered straight to your inbox every week). If …
Owning a gym comes with its pros and cons. One of the biggest pros is having a gym outfitted with equipment hand-selected by me. So while it’s not technically a home gym, it’s got all the stuff I deem important for training hard and getting strong. I have many online clients who train in a …
