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 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 …
When I first started personal training in 2012, breathing drills were all the rage in every avenue of fitness. You couldn’t read a training-related article without the opening line being some derivative of, “Did you know that we take over 20,000 breaths per day?” Belly breathing was the key to maximal strength, the diaphragm was …
At Bonvec Strength, we’re incredibly proud to be able to train complete beginners, national-level powerlifters and everyone else in between under the same roof. Not everyone follows the exact same workouts, does the same exercises or lifts the same weights, but they train similarly enough that our coaches can effectively train them at the same …
Online coaching has been both a blessing and a curse for the fitness industry. On the plus side, it’s given lifters unprecedented access to fantastic coaches all over the world that they wouldn’t have been able to hire even just a few years ago. On the other hand, it’s made an already low-barrier-for-entry industry even …
If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you know that I put out a ton of free training content. But did you know I also send out even MORE free stuff to my mailing list subscribers? And if you’re a subscriber, I’ve got something extra special for you. I’ve got a brand-new 12-part Level …
When a powerlifter is successful, who should get the credit? The lifter, because they did all the work and lifted the weight? The coach, because they wrote the program and taught the lifter what to do? Clearly the credit is shared between the two sides, especially if the coach and lifter have established a trusting …
Collaborative Decision Making between Coaches and Lifters Read More »
As I sit here with crippling delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) from Tuesday’s squat session, I got to thinking about soreness and how it’s been misrepresented on both ends of the spectrum by coaches and trainers. One side (the no pain, no gain side) of the coaching continuum uses soreness as a form of self-validation. When …
3 Random Thoughts on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) Read More »
Coaches and lifters love to argue over minutia and quibble over semantics. There’s probably some validity to every training method out there. And there’s probably some valid criticism for each one, too. Some training methods, therapies and remedies probably don’t do much good, but don’t do any harm either. And if we can agree that …
If it Doesn’t Help but it Doesn’t Hurt… it Probably Helps Read More »
