What I Learned from Bodybuilding and How It Can Help Your Powerlifting
What I Learned from Bodybuilding and How It Can Help Your Powerlifting
In May of this year, I competed in two bodybuilding shows: The NPC New York Metropolitan Championships and the NPC New England Championships. I
Testing Protein Quality
Testing Protein Quality
A variety of methods are used to test protein quality. Different methods yield different ratings for the tested source. In other words, a particular food or supplement may score very high with one test but score lower on other tests.
Maintaining Strength While Dieting
Maintaining Strength While Dieting
Trying to decrease body fat while maintaining and/or increasing your strength? Confused about supplements, food intake, and nutrient timing? Read on…
The Seven Day Plan to Getting Yoked
The Seven Day Plan to Getting Yoked
First off, we need to get this straight. Little Debbie is NOT Hostess. There are two things wrong with this. First off Little Debbie’s are known as snack slummin or pure ghetto snacks. That’s just not cool. Also, anything that has the name “little” attached to it can’t be good for the yoke.
Olympic Lifting for Athletes: Power Clean!
Olympic Lifting for Athletes: Power Clean!
It’s extremely important that athletes perform Olympic lifts correctly. This means teaching lifts through a progression designed to implement proper form. Doing the lifts incorrectly, which is the case with the vast majority of young athletes, reduces the effect of the lift and creates a much higher likelihood of injury.
How to Break PRs
How to Break PRs
What I intend to offer you is an example of what has helped me increase my own lifts.
Metabolic Typing (Part 2)
Metabolic Typing (Part 2)
I’m a human being. I’m a white, Caucasian male, and I’m an American citizen. I have blonde hair and blue/green eyes, and I’m 68 inches tall and weigh 177 lbs. I am a protein type.
Packing on the Mass
Packing on the Mass

I can’t tell you how many people have come into my office and told me that they absolutely can’t gain weight no matter what they do. They go on to tell me that they have tried everything imaginable and now they have just accepted the “fact” that they will be skinny little estrogen-filled boys for the rest of their lives.

Bodybuilder Nutrition Roundtable
Bodybuilder Nutrition Roundtable

The following interview was conducted by Josh Beaty with Layne Norton, Jamie Hale, Alan Aragon, and Will Brink. Sit back and enjoy a very informative discussion.

Metabolic Typing (Part 1)
Metabolic Typing (Part 1)

No two people are alike. Enter “metabolic typing,” or what I like to call common sense. In the 1930s, by visiting different parts of the world, Weston Price discovered that there was a link between modern eating habits and the degree of chronic degenerative illness.

Nutrition and Well-Being
Nutrition and Well-Being

I’ve been using nutrition as a successful weapon in such athletic endeavors as powerlifting, running, swimming, sprint triathlons, special operations military training, and then back to powerlifting. Has it made a difference for me?

Free Radicals and Exercise (Part 1)
Free Radicals and Exercise (Part 1)

Although exercise in the form of endurance or resistance type training has numerous benefits such as increasing oxygenation of tissues and improving insulin sensitivity, it also has a downside.

Protein Timing: Protein Essentials (excerpt from the book)
Protein Timing: Protein Essentials (excerpt from the book)

There’s a window of opportunity around workout time where protein consumption enhances muscle protein synthesis above normal levels (in addition to the protein synthesizing effects of resistance training).

Protein: The Complete Guide
Protein: The Complete Guide

Over the past two to three decades, there has been an almost never-ending debate regarding human requirements for protein. The basic argument has come down to whether or not athletes need more protein than average, sedentary individuals.

Tire Flipping: Tips and Techniques
Tire Flipping: Tips and Techniques

Aside from the Atlas Stones, the tire flip could be one of the most recognizable strongman events in the sport. However, it is probably the one event most incorrectly performed by athletes and most improperly used by strength coaches.

Fish Oils and Exercise for Better Health
Fish Oils and Exercise for Better Health

According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), high cholesterol, or hyperlipidemia, is one of the primary causes of coronary artery disease.

Maximum Effort Training for Strongman
Maximum Effort Training for Strongman

As covered in my last article, the dynamic effort (DE) session is dedicated to speed. Max effort (ME) is dedicated to huge weights and re-writing the record books every session you train. My approach is a bit different from the traditional Westside approach.

Lift & Learn II: The Benefits of Bodybuilding
Lift & Learn II: The Benefits of Bodybuilding

When I look back at my experiences as a bodybuilder there are plenty of good memories, tons of fun workouts, painful workouts and some injuries.

Combat Nutrition (Part One)
Combat Nutrition (Part One)

A few weeks ago I was weighing guys at the Kentucky Fighting Challenge weigh-ins and I realized how bad these athletes needed some direction regarding nutrition. In fact, I have realized this for a long time as I speak with numerous combat athletes weekly. . I finally decided to address this issue with an article.

Transformation of a Young Athlete
Transformation of a Young Athlete

Dan White had a lot of trouble gaining weight through his years of wrestling. As a freshman in high school he barely weighed 90 lbs and wrestled in the 103 lb weight class. As a sophomore he finally gained enough muscle and was able to wrestle at 103 lbs with no problems making weight.

Teenage Super Bench Press Monster
Teenage Super Bench Press Monster

The super Bench Press Monster, Mike Brown, brought a massive 730 pounds down to his chest and blew it off like it was a broomstick.

Power Nutrition Recipes to Get You Jacked!
Power Nutrition Recipes to Get You Jacked!

There are thousands of recipes out there but the problem is the large majority aren’t geared for the powerlifter.

The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 3)
The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 3)

Yes, it’s finally here! You now have the final part in this three part series on how to go up a weight class. All the while making sure you don’t look like you have been on a serious diet of hot dogs and marshmallows.

The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 1)
The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 1)

One of the most asked questions that I receive is how to gain lean muscle tissue while maintaining their current body fat percentage.

The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 2)
The Top 25 Ways to Pack on Serious Mass (Part 2)

In the first part of this series I discussed 8 top ways to pack on mass when going up a weight class. In the second part of this three part series I will continue with the next 8 tips to take you to success.

The Pie Diet, Nutrition for the Powerlifter
The Pie Diet, Nutrition for the Powerlifter

Being a powerlifter allows you more room for error in your nutritional plan than say, a bodybuilder, but getting the right amount of calories and nutrients is just as important.

12 Basic Steps to a Bigger Total
12 Basic Steps to a Bigger Total

Learn the Fundamentals of Power Nutrition.

Strength Considerations for Throwers in Track and Field
Strength Considerations for Throwers in Track and Field

Most periodized training programs for athletes follow a Western or linear model.

The Unmaking of an Athlete
The Unmaking of an Athlete

I sometimes wonder if there are any prerequisites at all to getting a job as college strength and conditioning coach.

Super Compensation
Super Compensation

The reason to couple super compensation work with training work is simple, gain a reciprocative function of the fatigue-frequency relationship more often in a training stage.

Workout Wisdom
Workout Wisdom

When planning a training protocol, one must take into account the value of work administered in terms of function and time.

Barbell Bullshit
Barbell Bullshit

Maybe it’s because I found out the hard way that you must vent information through a screen door in order to attain measurable improvements every training session in the real world. Maybe it’s because I have been doing research lately on American training strategies and I got a swift kick of deja vu.

Auto Regulatory Training Part 2
Auto Regulatory Training Part 2

The training process must include a critical and determined degree of fatigue, followed by an appropriate duration to which Reserve Strength may be elicited.

Auto Regulatory Training Part 1
Auto Regulatory Training Part 1

The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables. Specifically, these elements that must be monitored in training for sport can be generally classified into the broad category of measurement.

Training High School Athletes
Training High School Athletes

One of the most asked questions throughout the day was “What would you have done differently, if you knew what you know now?” And though I answered the question as best I could, I couldn’t help but rethink the question over and over.

General Training Journal For High School Field Athletes
General Training Journal For High School Field Athletes

When discussing training, there are many things to consider, such as speed work, building absolute strength, improving form, raising work capacity, recuperation, and selecting exercises and rotating them them in proper sequence to avoid adaptation.

Pick Your Poison
Pick Your Poison

This article is all about you, as a unique individual, training for your goals and based on your needs.

Items 178 to 214 of 214 total

Page