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 …
The Safety Squat Bar (SSB) is one of the most versatile tools you can use to get strong and build your legs. The fact that every gym doesn’t have one of these bars is mind blowing because it instantly makes squats more accessible and easier to learn for the majority of lifters. Here are four …
Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is the primary tool we use to prescribe load/intensity for our lifters. It helps us autoregulate the weight on the bar based on how the lifter is feeling on a given day. Autoregulation allows our lifters to push harder when they feel great, pull back when they don’t feel good, …
Lifting is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to getting stronger and building muscle. What we eat can affect the quality of our workouts and how quickly we recover from them. Intra-workout nutrition – what we consume during our workouts – gets overlooked by many. What should we be eating or drinking …
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It’s easier to criticize than to solve a problem. Nobody likes a complainer who offers no solution. However, as a coach, I find myself dismantling so much misinformation that my clients have been told by other trainers or seen on social media that sometimes, I just need to vent. Here are four of the dumbest …
A pivot block is a period of non-specific training that we use to give lifters a physical and mental break from heavy powerlifting-specific training. I first heard of this concept from Mike Tuchscherer of Reactive Training systems and to be clear, the way I use them is NOT the same way that RTS uses them. …
Traveling is one of life’s greatest joys… and biggest stressors. Whether you’re hitting the road for business or pleasure, by yourself or with a crew of people, the yin and yang of traveling is pronounced for many of us. Among the stressors of traveling is trying to maintain your training schedule. If you’re like most …
I’m generally not a fan of “system-based” strength training. There are far too many individual differences between lifters to try to pigeonhole everyone into the same exact training system. When this happens, results tend to follow a bell curve: 20 percent of lifters thrive, 20 percent of lifters do terribly, and the middle 60 percent …
