Programming

Tracking Your Barbell Training: The Importance of RPE & E1RM in Reaching Your Goals in Powerlifting & Strength Training

Tracking Your Barbell Training: The Importance of RPE & E1RM in Reaching Your Goals in Powerlifting & Strength Training

Learn why rate of perceived exertion (RPE) & estimated 1 rep max (E1RM) are the most important things to track in your barbell training log and how to use them to reduce injury & hit PRs.

RPE In Powerlifting: What is RPE? + How To Use Rating Of Perceived Exertion Optimally

RPE In Powerlifting: What is RPE? + How To Use Rating Of Perceived Exertion Optimally

Learn how to use RPE in powerlifting and barbell training to optimize strength development and injury prevention.

How To Manage Strength Training Fatigue In Your Barbell Training Program | Fatigue Management While Powerlifting

How To Manage Strength Training Fatigue In Your Barbell Training Program | Fatigue Management While Powerlifting

Learn the 3 best fatigue management hacks to avoid overtraining in powerlifting!

Exercise Prescription Guide: How to Choose the Best Exercises & Volume For Your Barbell Strength Training Program

Exercise Prescription Guide: How to Choose the Best Exercises & Volume For Your Barbell Strength Training Program

This Exercise Prescription Guide provides the best exercise, volume, & intensity for your barbell training program to reach your goals without injury!


The 4 Questions to Answer Before Beginning A Barbell Strength Training Program

The 4 Questions to Answer Before Beginning A Barbell Strength Training Program

Uncover the 4 most important questions to answer before beginning a barbell strength training program yourself or with a barbell coach.


Barbell Physical Therapy: 3 Ways to Incorporate Barbell Training into Sports Rehab & Physical Therapy for Athlete Recovery

Barbell Physical Therapy: 3 Ways to Incorporate Barbell Training into Sports Rehab & Physical Therapy for  Athlete Recovery

Understand why post-operative protocols are lackluster and provide 3 ways to incorporate barbell strength training into early physical therapy.

How Becoming a PRS Certified Coach (PRSC) Has Impacted My Business And Life

How Becoming a PRS Certified Coach (PRSC) Has Impacted My Business And Life

PRSC Chris Haggit details about his journey to follow his dream of becoming a barbell coach and how Progressive Rehab & Strength gave him the tools to successfully accomplish his dream!

How To Become The Best Outpatient Sports Physical Therapist

How To Become The Best Outpatient Sports Physical Therapist

To become the best outpatient sports physical therapist, you need to help people restore what was lost and improve their lives through movement, education, strength, and autonomy in injury management and risk reduction in as little time as possible

The Beginner Barbell Training Reset: What to Do When You Take Time Off, Miss Reps, Get Injured or Progress Stalls

The Beginner Barbell Training Reset: What to Do When You Take Time Off, Miss Reps, Get Injured or Progress Stalls

If you’re training and have to take time off, miss reps during a session, get injured during a session or out of the gym, and your progress stalls while you’re in a progression, this article is here to help you!

5 Reasons To Use a Beginner Powerlifting Program After A Month Off Training

5 Reasons To Use a Beginner Powerlifting Program After A Month Off Training

If you just started training with barbells or an elite-level powerlifter before losing gym access, it doesn't matter. Having not trained with a barbell for 3-4 months means you're a novice again. Don't stress! This is actually a good thing, so hear us out!

The Safety of Barbell Resistance Training for Adult Powerlifters with Scoliosis

The Safety of Barbell Resistance Training for Adult Powerlifters with Scoliosis

Barbell resistance training is the most effective type of exercise training to accomplish nearly all goals. From achieving a muscular and lean physique to maintaining health and function as you age, and rehabilitating from surgery and returning to your sport of choice. But often, doctors, physical therapists, and chiropractors shy away from “lifting weights” because they lack an understanding of safe and effective programming and technique implementation across the life and healthspan.

How To Incorporate Cardio Into Your Strength Program

How To Incorporate Cardio Into Your Strength Program

Being strong and being fit are not the same thing. You don’t have to give up cardio when you start resistance training with barbells. Here’s exactly how to structure cardio into the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression. So keep on doing your conditioning, cardio, or hobbies. Let’s be strong and fit!

8 Reasons To Be Strong and Why You Should Resistance Train with Barbells

8 Reasons To Be Strong and Why You Should Resistance Train with Barbells

Barbell resistance training is the BEST way to get stronger and will improve all aspects of your life. f you’re afraid of resistance training and afraid of picking up a barbell, stop! Being physically strong has more benefits than I can count on both hands and feet. Strength is the foundation of everything related to health, fitness, sports performance, and human survival.

Progression Without Regression: How to Adjust Training So Things Don't Go Awry!

Progression Without Regression: How to Adjust Training So Things Don't Go Awry!

You’re following a templated program like 5/3/1, SS NLP, Texas Method, Cube, Conjugate Method, HLM, and you’re doing it alone and have read the books and the articles that come along with your program, but you aren’t quite sure exactly how to transition your program along the way. We’re here to help you figure it all out in this article!

Carbs Part 2: The Strength Trainee’s Guide To Carb Timing

Carbs Part 2: The Strength Trainee’s Guide To Carb Timing

In this article, Coach Will discusses the importance of carbohydrates for all Strength Trainees around workouts. This article goes into understanding when or how much to eat before, during, and after stepping into the gym and helps you understand how to time your carbs properly to improve performance  and recovery allowing you to eek out the absolute most from training.

RPE: Am I Doing This Right?!

RPE: Am I Doing This Right?!

You’ve been barbell training for a while. Maybe today’s your first day under the bar. Wherever you are on your strength journey, you know that putting weight on your back, or in your hands, feels some type of way. Some days the weight feels how you expect it to feel like, some days it feels like loose-leaf paper, and other days it feels like a humpback whale.

PRS Mythbuster: Weight Training & Your Physique

PRS Mythbuster: Weight Training & Your Physique

We’ve all seen and heard it before - the advice on how to “tone up”, “bulk up” (or NOT bulk up), “get shredded”, “lean out”, etc... If you’re like me you’ve probably tried light weights, heavy weights, sets of 8, sets of 20, supersets, cardio, yoga, circuit training… the list goes on. So why did it all stop working eventually? Why do your pants not fit better? Why don’t you have 21-inch biceps? Chances are, at one point or another, you’ve succumbed to at least 1 of 5 common myths about strength training in your pursuit of a leaner, “more toned”, or muscular physique. Well, I’m here to set the record straight!