Six-Week Wave Bench Progression
This month’s featured program should help build confidence by benching with low rep sets with lower percentage weights and practicing higher percentage singles. Feel free to toss in some assistance work while you’re at it, too.
WATCH: Steve Pulcinella Visits the S5 Compound
After a long, miserable drive to Ohio, we stuck a camera in Steve’s face and forced him to talk about his life. The results are about what you’d expect.
Some updated gym stuff
Steve Pulcinella has been passionately strength training since the age of twelve and competing in strength athletics since the age of fourteen. He started as a powerlifter and progressed into Strongman, winning many powerlifting titles in the early eighties and eventually competing in the 1994 World's Strongest Man Contest. He currently coaches at his gym, Iron Sport Gym.
I Was a Teenage Gym Rat- Part 1
Our cellar dwellar training became a very competitive and ball busting affair
A quick little coaching tip for masters lifters
guys like me who in my prime was a 30 year old, 330lb brama bull
The "fifty lifty"
I'm still mentally, emotionally, socially, sexually and financially as immature as I ever was
I guess the basics ain't so basic anymore
find a coach who was around lifting before the god damned internet and learn the basics.
Here is a nifty little "sesh"
every time I even think of getting serious about my eating that makes me want to drink
Log entry Sept 10, 2015
So it's not just my shit that my members bust up, they take their destruction with them on the road too.
Cause and effect
Ok so the big controversy of the day is how Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison took his kids "participation trophies" away from them. I know a lot of hippy liberals don't like this and that's because they are all for the pussyfication of America. I agree with James Harrison, winners should be recognized and awarded and […]
And there is days that this happens . . .
He didn't just walk through the doors of the gym that day, he ripped the fuckers off the hinges!
When good advice falls on deaf (and dumb) ears.
I guess brutal honesty is lost on the younger generation.
A leap of faith update April 9th, 2014
. . . I have been in this business for twenty years now, never underestimate people's cheapness . . .
As long as you're in the gym
Steve Pulcinella has been passionately strength training since the age of twelve and competing in strength athletics since the age of fourteen. He started out as a powerlifter and progressed into doing strongman, winning many powerlifting titles in the early eighties and eventually competing in the 1994 World’s Strongest Man Contest. He currently coaches at his gym, Iron Sport Gym.
Vegan Powerlifters . . . ?
So what led you to this like of self sacrifice and eating the shittiest food I have ever seen?
Whatever happened to the strong, silent type?
There is nothing that'll make ya cringe like watching an older white guy trying to dance to "Turn down for what"
Stevey P's fantastic Front Squat Tape (tm)
Do you have trouble with your front squats slipping off your shoulders? Those days are over!
Mobility or Warming Up
Back in the 70's the weightlifting world was ruled by huge Russian men of girth with very tiny singlets and everything was right with the world.
Rounding and Pounding
I figured while everyone else is out at the Arnold this weekend circle jerking each other, or on the internet trying to book seminars based on your popularity for enjoying exotic donuts Stevey P would write a useful article from his vast experience and knowledge. Living, Learning and Passing on I believe they call it.
The "Big 100 Shoulder Explosion" (tm)
It requires no special equipment other than a barbell, some dumbbells, a set of balls and your desire to have shoulders that look like a porn star's tits
The "ascending rep scheme"
feel free to steal this idea, call it something else and make a few bucks off it by making people think that you came up with it ya buzzards
My leap of faith update
I'm very nice to everyone that walks in and out of the gym. Even the jackasses that stress me out
My Personal Opinion on Coaching the Powerlifts
Not just learn the lifts, MASTER the lifts according to the mechanics of their body.
The RPS Lancaster PA meet story
Her failure as a lifter is actually my failure as a coach because I never told her what hitching a deadlift was and that it was not legal.
A personal update
I'd like to say that the rest of my day is filled with much needed self help activities like reading or basic hygiene but . . .
Hang-cleans and Hoagies
"When it comes to selling your product you can have it good, fast and cheap but you can't have all three, you only get to pick TWO."
Solution For Stretch Marks
Are you looking for a solution to those ugly stretch marks? Stevie P has some tips for you.
Solution For Stretch Marks
Are you looking for a solution to those ugly stretch marks? Stevie P has some tips for you.
WATCH: Pulcinella's Advice for Teen Lifters
You're still growing hair in funny places, so you don’' know any better. Listen up.
Steve's Strength Tips: Fix Your Kicks
The opinions shared by the author are not necessarily those of elitefts, it's owners or staff.
Iron Sport: Life Challenges
I had never been in a hospital anywhere near this long before. It really sucked.
Iron Sport: Ramblings of a Gym Owner
I was in the middle of training and saw what looked like a strung out, homeless vagrant walk in the front door.
Iron Sport: Stevey P Goes to College
Steve talks about helping a college kid, prostate troubles, and tweets gone awry.
Iron Sport: The 30th Annual AOBS Dinner
Being a huge fan of all things strength, I have been attending the AOBS annual dinner for six or seven years.
