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Structuring Your Gym Time: Do It Yourself or Follow a Plan?
Walk into any gym and you can spot the two camps. One group has a plan. They know exactly what they’re doing today and why. The other group wanders from machine to machine, does whatever’s open, calls it a workout, and then wonders six months later why nothing changed. The question of whether to build…
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Hydration for Powerlifting: Staying Strong in Training and on Meet Day
Hydration is the easiest thing to get right and one of the most common things lifters get wrong. A small drop in how hydrated you are can cost you strength, focus, and bar speed before you ever feel thirsty. Under heavy weight, that margin matters. Why Hydration Affects Your Strength Your muscles are mostly water.…
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Cardio, Weights, or Both? Choosing the Right Workout for Your Goals
One of the most common questions I get from new people is some version of “should I do cardio or lift weights?” Most of the time they’ve already decided on cardio, because that’s what they think burning fat is supposed to look like. The honest answer is that it was never an either-or, and picking…
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Meal Timing and Frequency for Powerlifters
Lifters love to argue about meal timing. Three big meals or six small ones. Eat early, eat late, never eat at night. After thirty-plus years of watching what actually works, here is the truth. Your daily totals matter most, and timing is the fine-tuning that comes after you get the totals right. Totals First, Then…
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The Perfect Start: Why You Don’t Need to Wait Until Monday
“I’ll start Monday.” I’ve heard it ten thousand times. Then Monday shows up, something’s off, and now it’s next Monday. Then it’s the first of the month. Then after the holiday. Then after this busy stretch at work settles down. The perfect starting line is a mirage. It moves every time you walk toward it.…
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The Cost of Results: Gym, Coaching, and Eating Well
Let’s talk about money, because somebody has to. Getting in shape costs something. A membership, maybe a coach, better food in the cart. People look at those numbers and flinch. What they almost never add up is the cost of staying exactly where they are, and that bill is usually higher. It just gets paid…
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Intra-Workout Nutrition for Powerlifting: Fueling Long, Heavy Sessions
Most powerlifting sessions do not need anything more than water. But when the work gets long and heavy, what you take in during the session can be the difference between finishing strong and falling apart on your last lifts. Intra-workout nutrition is a tool. You just have to know when to reach for it. When…
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Discovering Your Why: The Deeper Reasons Behind Your Goals
Everybody who walks into my gym has a goal sitting on the surface. “I want to lose twenty pounds.” “I want to fit my old clothes.” That’s fine, and it’s a place to start. But the surface goal is never the thing that keeps a person coming back. What keeps you coming back lives underneath…
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Post-Workout Nutrition for Powerlifting: Refueling After Heavy Work
The session does not end when you rack the last rep. What you do in the hours after heavy training decides how much of that work you actually keep. I have coached lifters who trained hard and recovered poorly, and they always plateaued faster than the ones who took refueling seriously. What Your Body Needs…
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Popular Armwrestling Exercises
Devon Larratt and Michael Todd have been promoting specific armwrestling strength lifts, often using straps attached to loading pins or cables to mimic key movements in an armwrestling match. These exercises target riser strength, pronation, and wrist containment. While there has not been a universally standardized naming system for these lifts, this is an attempt…
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How Do Smaller Athletes Get Started in Strongman Competitions?
One of the most common questions in strongman comes from athletes who don’t see themselves as naturally built for the sport. They might be 5’6″ or 5’7″, 160 pounds, coming from powerlifting, bodybuilding, or general strength training. They look at event videos, see the size of the implements, and wonder how they’re supposed to compete…
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Pre-Workout Nutrition for Powerlifting: Eating Before You Lift Heavy
What you eat before a heavy session shows up in the quality of your work. I have seen lifters blame their program for a bad day when the real problem was they walked in under-fueled or stuffed full ten minutes before squats. Pre-workout nutrition is simple once you understand what you are actually trying to…
