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Survivorship Bias, Genetics, and Why Most Training Programs Fail
Most people are training for somebody else’s results. You find an athlete you admire, you study what they do, and you build your training around it, like proximity to somebody else’s method is the same as having a plan. It isn’t. What you’re looking at when you watch elite performance is the end of a…
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The Role Environment and Equipment Play in Becoming a Great Strongman
You don’t become a great strongman on programming alone. A good program matters, but the athletes who really develop are the ones training in an environment built for the sport, with equipment that teaches them what lifting, carrying, and performing under load actually feel like. The coaching, the tools, and the culture all work together…
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Strongman Coaching and Programming Availability
Strongman training really clicks when you stop doing random workouts and start following a structured progression. Most serious strongman gyms offer coaching and programming for exactly that reason: to help you build strength with a purpose, clean up your technique, and actually prepare to perform. Good guidance takes all the effort you’re already putting in…
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Partial vs. Full Range of Motion for Muscle Development
Most lifters get taught one rule early on: use a full range of motion on every exercise. And for a long time, that got treated as the gold standard for building muscle. But if you’ve spent any real time under the bar, you’ve seen something different. You’ve seen partial reps build size. You’ve seen people…
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Getting Started with Strongman Coaching in San Diego
Starting strongman coaching comes down to two questions: where are you right now, and where do you want to go? Every athlete walks in with a different background, a different set of strengths, and different goals. Good coaching finds your real starting point and builds a plan that actually lines up with what you’re after.…
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Connection to Strongman Competitions and Events
A real strongman gym is more than a place to work out. It’s a preparation ground. The same floor you train on day to day is usually where athletes learn the events, practice under pressure, and get ready for what contest day actually feels like. That tight link between training and competition is one of…
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Accessory and Supplemental Work for Powerlifting
Most lifters treat accessory work like filler. Something you tack on at the end of the session. Something you throw in because you figure you’re supposed to. That’s exactly where it goes wrong. Accessory and supplemental work isn’t there to make you tired. It’s there to make your main lifts better. If it doesn’t carry…
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Recovery and Injury Prevention for the Powerlifter
Recovery isn’t what you do after training. It’s what makes training work. Most lifters treat it like an afterthought, something you get to when you’re sore, something you add in once something starts to hurt. That’s backwards. Recovery isn’t separate from training. It’s the thing that lets training actually produce results. If you’re not recovering,…
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Strength Development Techniques for Powerlifting
Techniques don’t build strength. Application does. There’s no shortage of methods in powerlifting: Every one of them works, at the right time, for the right lifter, applied the right way. That’s the whole difference. No technique is powerful on its own. It’s how and when you use it that decides the outcome. What Strength Development…
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Training Phases and Periodization for Powerlifting
Phases matter, but only if they fit the lifter. You’ll hear a lot about periodization. Phases, blocks, timelines, the perfect 12-week plan. And yes, structure matters. But here’s the truth: phases don’t build strength. Applying them correctly to the lifter does. I’ve used every model out there over the years, Linear, Block, Undulating, conjugate-based approaches.…
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Reactive Strength vs. Agile Strength: Where Speed Meets Control
Strength isn’t just about how much force you can produce. It’s about how well you can use it when it actually matters. Most lifters spend their time building strength in controlled environments, perfect setup, straight bar path, predictable movement. And that has real value. But the moment things speed up, shift, or fall out of…
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Program Design Elements for Powerlifting
Programs don’t build lifters. People do. Coaching, individualization, community, that’s what actually drives progress. There’s no shortage of powerlifting programs out there: templates, spreadsheets, percentages, systems with famous names attached. And a lot of them work, for a while. But here’s the reality. The program isn’t the answer. The lifter, and how the program gets…
