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.
Read moreRPE 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.
Read moreHow 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!
Read moreExercise 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
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
Understand why post-operative protocols are lackluster and provide 3 ways to incorporate barbell strength training into early physical therapy.
Read moreHow 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!
Read moreHow 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
Read moreThe 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!
Read more5 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!
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreHow 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!
Read more8 Simple Ways to Ditch Excuses & Start Your Barbell Resistance Training Journey Today
Don’t let not knowing where and how to start resistance training with barbells stop you. Here we discuss how to adapt the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression to your life and give you all the tools you need to start resistance training with barbells today.
Read more8 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.
Read moreProgression 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!
Read more9 Time-Saving Adjustments To Reduce Training Anxiety
You’re not the only one struggling with the amount of time training takes and how it works with your life schedule.
And since life is life, we need to have some mental and programmable strategies to decrease anxiety and optimize the situation to get the most out of training during difficult and stressful times.
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.
Read moreHow to Get The Most Beginner Gains: The Deadlift
In this article we provide a 3-phase deadlift program for the trainee who has stopped seeing progress on their deadlift and will help reduce or eliminate training failures, prevent resets, and keep you getting stronger without any setbacks.
Read moreRPE: 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.
Read morePRS 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!
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