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 […]
Nobody Told You Arm Training Was Allowed (And Most People Are Still Doing It Wrong) Read More »
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
Stop Shortchanging Yourself (And Stop Using That as an Excuse) Read More »
Most people treat their body like a car that should start the same way every morning regardless of what happened yesterday. Same weight. Same sets. Same pace. The fact that you slept five hours, ate nothing real, and have been running on stress since Tuesday is apparently not relevant information. Your body disagrees. Loudly, sometimes.
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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.
When the Doctor Can’t Fix It (And When They Can) Read More »