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Picture a Tuesday morning forty years from now. Someone is on the floor of a kitchen, maybe from a slip, maybe just playing with a grandchild, and the only question that matters is whether they can get up on their own. For some 75-year-olds that moment is nothing. For others it is the moment everything changes, the ...
How to train while traveling doesn’t have to be challenging. Just because you are stuck with a hotel gym workout doesn’t give you a pass to sandbag your workout. A hotel gym with a dumbbell rack th...
Is a 30-minute strength workout enough to build strength? Absolutely. You don’t need a marathon workout that takes up half your day to see the results you want. Let’s set up a common scenario I see...
Run the arithmetic on two lifters. The first has a perfect week, six sessions, every set logged, and then the crash: one session the next week, one the week after, zero the week after that. Nine se...
Forget ghosts. Forget the guy in the hockey mask. The scariest thing in fitness is a training log with its last entry dated October 31. It happens every year, to lifters who swore it would not. And...
She tried pre-workout exactly once. A friend's tub, a heaping scoop, and ten minutes later her face prickled, her hands buzzed, and she spent the warm-up wondering if something was wrong with her. ...
She earns her rest days the way some people earn dessert. Three hard sessions this week, so tomorrow off is allowed. Two would have felt lazy, so she'd have squeezed in a fourth, tired or not, beca...
I compete in the Masters divisions at IBJJF and NAGA tournaments, and I can tell you precisely where strength lives in a match. It is not in a gym number. It is in the last minute of a round, when ...
The warm-up you skip in week two sends its invoice in week eleven. That is the cruel accounting of mobility work: it never bills you on the day you skip it. The lifter who blows off preparation fee...
