“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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]