Championship Nature Series: The Inverted U and Wooden on Criticism
Championship Nature Series: The Inverted U and Wooden on Criticism

You can’t control what people say about you. Sometimes what they say will be good; sometimes what they say will be bad. What you can control is the way you respond to it. You can let the media get you on the highs and lows of the season, or you can simply choose to not respond to it. It’s your choice.

Top Training Tips For Advanced Lifters — Stay Healthy and Be Your Own Worst Critic
Top Training Tips For Advanced Lifters — Stay Healthy and Be Your Own Wo...

Do you think the top-level guys are 100% healthy? Do you know the best way to deal with critics?

5 Ways You're Rejecting Self Improvement As A Coach
5 Ways You're Rejecting Self Improvement As A Coach

I recently started going through some old boxes and found an article I printed and saved when I coached at Denison. The information was pertinent for coaches then and it still is now.

Life Lessons of the Iron
Life Lessons of the Iron

Train with me for one day and I will know more about you than I could learn from a year outside the gym. If you spend time with the weights, you’ll learn more about yourself, too.

How Are We Judged As Strength Coaches?
How Are We Judged As Strength Coaches?

Wins and losses? Injury prevention? Fourth-quarter dominance?

You Can't Handle the Truth
You Can't Handle the Truth

A lot of powerlifters are soft today.

Leaders Spit Out the Bones
Leaders Spit Out the Bones
The ability to dispassionately learn from others is an important step towards emotional maturity
How Not to Behave and Why
How Not to Behave and Why

Avoid these career-crushing errors that most strength coaches inadvertently commit.

Stop the Trash Talk
Stop the Trash Talk

Wise advice from the Gandhi of the Farmer's Walk.

LISTEN: Transforming your Habits with James Clear
LISTEN: Transforming your Habits with James Clear

Former student, athlete, and intern becomes one of my biggest influences

Rookie Coaching Vanilla
Rookie Coaching Vanilla

Keep everything vanilla for that first year of coaching.

Reno Hardcore: I Am Your Training Partner, Not Your Mother
Reno Hardcore: I Am Your Training Partner, Not Your Mother

Your partners are not your personal cheering section or your therapists. You are a team working together to get insanely strong.

Bench Training with Ed Rectenwald
Bench Training with Ed Rectenwald

Coming up with new articles each month can be a challenging task and coming up with quality information can be even harder. After a couple hundred articles I find myself repeating myself time and time again.

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