Learn how to reduce technique breakdown and form creep to have the most optimal barbell technique for your body, reduce injury risk and prevent injury in powerlifting.
Read moreBench Press: The Arch
When it comes to the bench press, the technique of arching your back has become a somewhat controversial topic depending on who you talk to. Some people will say that it’s cheating, and others will tell you that you need to have a bigger arch to bench heavier weight. Determining the best technique for your bench press depends on your goals for the lift and your training.
Read more3 Reasons You Pee When You Powerlift & How To Fix It (Part 2): Mechanical Contributions
In Part 2 of our article series on urinary incontinence in Powerlifting, we want to rule out the most easily modifiable factors, including belts, incorrect breathing, technical breakdown, and bloating. These fall under the realm of mechanical stress acting directly on the bladder that can cause leaking.
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 more3 Reasons You Pee When You Powerlift & How To Fix It (Part 1)
Where peeing in your pants was once thought to only affect women who’ve had babies or entered the years of menopause, peeing in your pants has become as common as a barbell athlete losing a deadlift due to grip failure. Over the last 8 years, the growth of powerlifting has been tremendous and participation at USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Raw Nationals has increased 6.8x from 183 in 2012 to 1,260 lifters in 2019.
Read morePowerlifting Injury Prevention: 7 Keys To Reduce Barbell Lifting Injuries & Increase Longevity In Powerlifting
In this article, we're going to help you learn how to optimize your unique technique for fewer aches, pains, and injuries, so training goes uninterrupted. This will help you have less fear and more motivation to stay in the game and always get stronger.
Read more56 Alternatives To Barbell Train Around Mobility or Injury Limitations
Having mobility or pain limitations shouldn’t stop you from resistance training with barbells. Here are 56 alternatives to the squat, bench, deadlift, and overhead press so you can workout almost any injury or limitation.
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 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 moreWhy Everyone Should Press Overhead
What are the first exercises you think of when someone says they’re doing “upper body?” Bench press? Biceps and triceps? Dumbbell lateral raises? The obsession with growing arms, shoulders, and chest means cable columns, dumbbells, and benches are abundant in any gym with a weight room. So why do so many strength programs underemphasize, underrate, or completely omit the most important exercise for developing upper body strength and maintaining shoulder health?
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!
Read moreIPF Bench World 2018 Meet Recap
Part 3 of 3: 3 Reasons Your Bench Hasn't Progressed & It’s Not Your Programming!
Often times when lifters come to me for shoulder, neck or other injuries of the upper back or upper extremity, one of the FIRST things I have to fix is their EYE GAZE, something that greatly influences how much you bench.
Read morePart 2 of 3: 3 Reasons Your Bench Press Hasn’t Progressed & It’s Not Your Programing
Leg drive gets its own article as is a huge component of the bench press that can make or break a maximal attempt in competition or the completion of a training set as fatigue sets in throughout more and more reps. Additionally, in my physical therapy practice with barbell athletes, lack of leg drive is a common cause of shoulder injuries and pec strains while benching.
Read morePart 1 of 3: 3 Reasons Your Bench Press Hasn’t Progressed & It’s Not Your Programing!
The first of three KEY things regarding your bench press TECHNIQUE that can be a game changer for your bench press without making programming adjustments or adding in fancy toys - getting tight.
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