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Ultimate Chest Workout with Dumbbells: Your Growth Guide
Are you struggling to build a bigger chest with dumbbells? While this is a common issue for many lifters with limited equipment access, there is an easy solution. I will outline the ten exercises...
Wearing Knee Sleeves For Squats: Tips + How Much Do They Help?
As a powerlifting coach, I’m often asked if it’s worth wearing knee sleeves for squats, how they help, and how much additional weight one can expect to lift when wearing them. Here’s my response: ...
7 Types of Lifting Belts (Explaining The Pros, Cons, & Which Is Best)
Weightlifting belts come in different styles, thicknesses, and materials, and based on what kinds of activities and exercises you do in the gym, one type may be better than others. If you purchas...
Training Division 85: Loyal to the work
There’s a point where the feeling dies. No hype. No momentum. No signs it’s working. Just weight on the bar, a clock that won’t move, and a version of you that would rather walk out. That’s where m...
Training Division 84: The Iron Will Endures
There’s a moment in every lift—and in every hard season of life—where the signal gets distorted. Muscles burn, lungs tighten, and everything in you starts making a case to shut it down. It sounds r...
Training Division 83: Forged in Routine
There’s a part of training no one talks about. No PR. No crowd. No highlight. Just the same bar, the same weight, the same ritual—again and again. It’s easy to feel like nothing’s happening there. ...
Training Division 82: Train Around it
There’s a moment in training—and in life—when something gives out. A shoulder tweaks. A knee won’t cooperate. The plan you built starts to crack, and frustration creeps in fast. That’s where most p...
Training Division 81: Deceptive
There’s a point in training—and in life—when everything starts to feel off. The weight feels heavier than it should. Your energy is low. Focus slips. You walk away from the session thinking it was ...
Training Division 80: Weak Side
Your imbalance isn't hidden—it's just untrained. Fix it before it fails you. Everyone's got a side they lean on. The one that feels solid. Reliable. Strong when everything gets heavy. And then ther...
Training Division 79: Blood, Chalk and Time
Every callus, every failed rep, every second under tension adds up—whether you see it yet or not. Strength isn’t given. It’s carved out over time. Built in the days you didn’t want to show up but d...
Training Division 78: Built In The Plateau
There's a point in training where progress doesn't slow—it stops. The bar won't budge. The numbers don't climb. The momentum you thought you had disappears. Good. Because this is where the truth sh...
Training Division 77: Run From The Ghost
The hardest miles aren't on the road. They're the ones where the old version of you is still trying to pull you back. Somewhere around mile three or mile thirteen, depending on the day, the convers...
Training Division 76: The First Rep Back
You don’t notice how loud doubt gets until you try to come back. It fills the space between sets, questions the weight on the bar, and reminds you how far you feel from where you used to be. The fi...
Training Division 75: Grit, Not Glory
The lift that gets recorded.The competition attempt.The moment when the room goes quiet and all eyes turn toward you. Those seconds feel important because they’re visible. But visibility isn’t what...
Training Division 74: Move the Weight, Move Your Life
Every lift mirrors life: pressure, focus, breakthrough. The moments that test you most aren’t always loud but they shape how you show up when it counts. What you build quietly in training becomes w...
Training Division 73: Friction
Resistance is a gift. It scours weakness and sparks strength. Friction is uncomfortable by design. It’s the part of the lift where the bar slows down and everything in you wants relief. The stickin...
Training Division 72: Brace for Impact
We’ve been sold a lie about rest days; that they're the space in between the “real” work. That taking a day off is somehow letting yourself down. But ask any serious athlete or high performer who’...