To develop and ingrain the habits of success overlook no fine details.
Strength is a journey, not a quick fix. Take the time to choose your tools correctly and create something indestructible.
There are a lot of factors involved in being a good strength athlete. From most to least important, here is my list of what you need to excel in this industry. Do you have them all?
Being truly great means finding a way to help others the same way you seek to improve yourself.
Are you still searching for the holy grail of programs? Here it is, in all its perfection.
You learn a lot from the mistakes you make at your first meet. Imagine all you can learn from the mistakes spanning an entire powerlifting career.
This crime classic is full of strength training lessons from the Corleone family. When you take the platform, are you the hot-tempered Santino or the calm, calculated Michael?
Some people will tell you that overtraining isn’t real. Don’t listen to these people. Take the time to consider your recovery just as much as you consider your training.
Even at my reduced bodyweight, the travel was rigorous. In the end, getting to see my family was worth every uncomfortable plane seat.
I have my own demons to keep in line. They’re a product of my disorders and I’ve learned to accept this.
Guidance through many years of elite-level powerlifting has produced six specific lessons for platform and personal strength.
Every online critic has his own idea about central nervous system recovery. When should you step away from the gym to accelerate progress and avoid injury?
C’ mon guys, everybody’s doing it. It won’t hurt you (as long as you use it correctly).
If you want to become the best, go learn from someone even better.
Chad was nestled all snug in his bed, while visions of power racks danced in his head…
Why don't you just go the safe route? Sit on the couch and think about all the things others have accomplished.
You want to leave the gym on a good note. Aichs explores what that really means.
Are you obsessing over the minutiae and overlooking the big picture?
At the last Learn to Train seminar, I saw attendees do amazing things. The Powerlifting Experience will be even better.
Is driving out of the hole on a squat PR any harder than burying the rail on a sweet wave? Hell yeah, it is!
When you are young and hungry to succeed, balance rarely enters the equation. As we mature, we tend to question things…
If you are limited by the work and sacrifice that are required to be a champion, then embrace your mediocrity!
If you are a serious lifter, you need to know how to overcome training obstacles before they derail your efforts.
Do you have the strength of will to say, “Screw everyone. I know I can do it”?
Mental toughness is the difference between getting huge PR lifts and missing them.
As we get stronger, everything changes and we have to keep adapting the program in order to keep getting stronger.
When you rip, you are at the mercy of wherever the bar goes with the rip.
It’s better to be proud of true, small accomplishments than great, elaborate lies.
I think the biggest and hardest change for me was learning to train less.
You would be hard pressed to find another seminar anywhere with the stacked deck in attendance at the LTT6.
Enjoy the ride (including a bike ride) because it’s over too quickly.
Your partners are not your personal cheering section or your therapists. You are a team working together to get insanely strong.
It’s an essential aspect of any great strength training routine. But are you doing it correctly?
Muscle memory is extremely important when it comes to lifting. However, have you instilled your muscles with the correct memory for proper technique?
Arrogance, confidence, and pride all have their place. But when is it too much?
Many strength athletes are way more than just big strong muscle heads.
I hadn’t competed in anything since college and that fire was raging again after the meet.
When I first decided to pursue powerlifting seriously, I knew I could be good. How good? I didn’t know.
It’s just as important to have a strong mind as it is to have a strong body!
If I could walk up the stairs I would go directly back down and squat until I physically couldn’t make it back up the stairs.
In my pursuit to become one of the best powerlifters in the world and get everything I could out of my body, I learned enormous amounts of training and strength information.
When you need that little pick-me-up for a big squat, your little friend, will never let you down.
Team DOS just received the new Econo Prowler a couple months ago with the intent of using the hell out of it.
I’ve been fighting it for a few weeks, but I’m definitely overtraining again. I don’t do shit anymore, but I keep overtraining. One of my training partners asks me what I expect, because don’t sleep. That’s easy. I’m Chad Aichs, and I expect to train hard every day while still getting stronger.
This games didn’t really go as planned. In hindsight, I made some mistakes that really affected my throwing. On the plus side, I won the national caber championship.
My latest Highland Games competition didn’t go as well as I’d hoped it would, but I learned some stuff and didn’t finish too badly. I took second place overall, and second in the stone championship.
Lately, it seems that I’ve gotten a lot of questions and comments from people talking about how frustrating powerlifting is, and asking if it’s all worth it. They’re thinking about the dedication, sacrifice, stress and pain powerlifting can cause.
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