So You’ve achieved Your Goal… Now What?
So You’ve achieved Your Goal… Now What?
We all have long term goals. Some of us want to lose weight, gain weight, get stronger, get faster, run farther, look better, fit into some old clothes, have better blood work, more lung capacity, ...
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Lifting: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Let me start by saying that I am not a psychologist or a therapist. This is coming from experience training many different people and training myself. This is meant to be a helpful read to ...
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Get Stronger by Lifting Less?
Here is a confusing statement… you do not get stronger in the gym!
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Dealing with a Failed Lift
It happens to everyone at some point…failing a lift. It sucks when it happens but it is not the end of the world. You just have to know how to handle it.
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Grip Strength
Hands…have you ever stopped to think about how weird they really are? Just a pair of bony appendages on the end of our arms that branch out into smaller bony appendages that bend around on ...
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A Meditation on Goal Setting
We are in the time of year where the spirit of personal change and growth is abundant and fresh. I’m not saying that you have to set a new year’s resolution but I’m also not ...
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The Skill Component of Strength
I’m going to make a very strange statement and that is the following: “Strength is not just being strong.”
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Visualizing Other Measures of Strength Progress
Strength development is easy to see in lifting…you’re able to do more weight for the same number of reps or you are able to do the same weight but for more reps. However there is ...
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How to Ask Someone for a Spot
We’ve all been there and it is super awkward… asking for help, in this case asking for a spot! I will acknowledge that there may be a certain level of anxiety in this situation. In ...
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Visualization for Lifting
If you were to ask anybody on the planet what percentage of a sport is physical and what percentage of it is mental, I guarantee you that literally no one will say “It’s 100% physical.” ...
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You are Stronger Than You Think!
If you have read the title of this post and are looking for some great hype to get your blood pumping, goose bumps on your arms, and electricity bolting through your entire body then you ...
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Benefits of a Good Training Partner
The value of training with (a) partner/s in relation to strength training cannot truly be quantified, but, I am going to try to in this short read. First we must put into context what “training” ...
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