“You’re doing cardio too, aren’t you?,” my doctor asked when I saw her last month. “Nope,” I say. “I just lift heavy weights. That’s all.” My doctor clearly never hears about this barbell stuff and I can tell she wants to argue and suggest that I add cardio to my workouts. But the conviction in […]
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I suck at sports but I want to be a great powerlifter
I have always been a mediocre athlete. Born with little body awareness and nonexistent intrinsic understanding of how to perform a new movement or task, when learning any new physical feat, fear and an immediate awareness of how bad I am at learning new things flood my system. The truth is, I have always been […]
Getting Strong Makes You Happy
“A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.” -Mark Rippetoe Getting strong […]
Professional Athletes Rely On Their Strength Coaches
In case you haven’t heard yet, the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series. I am not here to discuss the tremendous achievement and historical implications of the thrilling victory, which have been extensively written about by people far more qualified than me. Instead, I write this blog post to point out that without a […]
If You Can’t Do It Over 40, It Isn’t Worth Doing
A few weeks ago, I was helping Coach Dave move equipment into the gym when we saw two people who must have been in their 80s, hunched over, slowly walking across the parking lot. I thought in that moment that it was so appropriate that I was there moving equipment into a new strength gym […]