The following article is a quick five tips to help you with your squat.
Now that I think about it, I’ve had a lot of shitty “first times.”
On the 3rd rep of 660 I dropped the bar and decided to walk away without risking injury.
Whenever we evaluate programs to decide how good they are, we can always come back to the seven fundamental principles to help point us in the right direction.
It usually starts like this—an elbow to the ribs in the middle of the night from your spouse.
I usually pride myself on having common sense and being able to understand things.
Feeling extremely run-down now, so that’s good. It means I’m putting in work.
Take two grilled cheese sandwiches put burger between and enjoy the awesomeness!
I remember chanting to myself over and over, “Get under the bar and just get it done.”
Hopefully this gives you an idea what it takes to be big and strong, and by extension of those, awesome.
Just kept busy and did a little work this week after the meet.
I learned that what I have been doing is working just fine and as long as my lifts keep moving.
If there is someone out there who is crazy enough to get back into weightlifting after being diagnosed with lupus, I’ll be the first to tell you that it can be done.
Old-time favorites: Mac and Cheese and Grilled Corn-on-the-Cob.
After about 5,762,987 trillion text messages and half as many e-mails back and forth between Kiefer and myself, we came up with a plan.
Of course, you’ll find this in Chad Aichs’ bag, but you’ll also find it in McMillan’s.
By this point in the process, I wasn’t anywhere near an expert, but things were starting to click.
Everyone must have been scared of me. Either that or nobody wanted to fly to Connecticut to lift.
Here are some tips for those of you who are considering your first powerlifting meet.
The good news was that my shoulder felt fine with the much-needed grip change.
We asked Dave for his “best bench video ever” and this is what he ended up with.
The next week you could rotate to some reverse bands with shirt off boards
The first thing I learned here was I wasn’t using the proper intensity and mindset in my warm-up.
I will give you five very good reasons why powerlifting exercises and repetition schemes should be used in your athletic conditioning programs.
Grilled Buffalo Chicken Wings with a side of man ranch.
Another problem with the Western method of periodization is that many abilities aren’t maintained.
This is embarrassing, I was more of a mess than I thought when I started.
The Answer Man helps guide you from shit to suck, from suck to good, and eventually from good to great!
There seems to be a lot of confusion over what exactly the word “intensity” means in a weight room setting.
This is the exact training cycle I used years ago to squat my first 500 pounds.
Well you should wonder, but in case you haven’t, I have. And this is what I came up with.
Enjoy the early accomplishments of a young (and pre-male pattern baldness) baby-faced Ted.
This will take me well into pre-comp training and lead to some important sessions.
Simple (but not without effort) guidelines to jacking up your bench press.
