Adult Fitness Training Archives - Josh Shuman Training

The Science of Strength Just Got Updated. Here’s What It Actually Means for You.

The American College of Sports Medicine published new resistance training guidelines in March 2026. First update in 17 years. They pulled from 137 systematic reviews covering over 30,000 participants, which is about as thorough as this kind of research gets. The headlines focused on the heavy lifting stuff. Go hard, lift at least 80% of […]

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Your Body Is Leaning. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.

A client kept having flare ups. We’d tried backing off certain movements, adjusted his load, took things easier for a stretch. Nothing worked. The flare ups kept coming back and we couldn’t figure out why. So we did something different. Took a photo from straight on and drew a line from the middle of his

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Nobody Told You Arm Training Was Allowed (And Most People Are Still Doing It Wrong)

Somewhere along the way, arm training became the thing serious lifters pretend they don’t care about. You’re supposed to squat heavy, pull heavy, press heavy, and be above vanity. Bicep curls are for the guy in the tank top who’s been doing the same workout since 2009 and still asks people if they’re using that

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Hold the Line

Three weeks in and nothing is happening. You’ve been consistent, mostly. You’ve been doing the thing, kind of. And now you’re starting to wonder if the thing even works. This is the part where most people quit. Which is unfortunate, because it’s also usually right before anything real starts to happen. The timeline between starting

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Stop Shortchanging Yourself (And Stop Using That as an Excuse)

She was going through cancer treatment and still showing up to train. We had 30 minutes. Sometimes less. Her schedule was unpredictable in the way that treatment schedules are, which is to say completely. She was fatigued in a way that a good night of sleep doesn’t touch. The program she’d been running wasn’t an

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It’s Always Going to Feel Hard. That’s Kind of the Point.

There’s a question I get pretty regularly from clients who have been training for a while. Not beginners. People who have been showing up consistently, putting in real work, seeing real results. And they pull me aside at some point and ask some version of the same thing. “When does this get easier?” One client

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When the Doctor Can’t Fix It (And When They Can)

A client of mine had back pain that had taken over his life. Not dramatic, acute injury pain. The kind that just quietly ends things over time. Golf was gone. Moving comfortably was gone. He wanted to get back to both. We worked together for a while. The problem was he couldn’t really buy in.

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Stop Playing Whack a Mole With Your Body

She came in because she had no time. Working constantly, and when she wasn’t working she was too drained to function. Sitting at a computer most of the day, same position for hours, barely moving. Somewhere in the middle of all that her wrist started hurting. So she dealt with the wrist. Brace, rest, ice,

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Pickleball Is Not Your Fitness Plan

I want to start by saying I have nothing against pickleball. I feel like I need to establish that upfront because I’m about to say some things and I don’t need a mob of retirees with paddles showing up at the gym. Pickleball is fun. It gets people moving who weren’t moving before. The social

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