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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…
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Fundamentals of Powerlifting
Powerlifting is simple. Strength, simplified, but not easy. Three lifts: That’s it. No tricks, no shortcuts, no hiding. You either move the weight or you don’t. But don’t confuse simple with easy. Mastering these lifts, and building real strength through them, takes time, structure, and discipline. The Big Three: And What They Really Represent Most…
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Strength Training Systems
I’ve been doing this for over 30 years. Under the bar, on the platform, and still learning. Not just lifting, but studying, testing, coaching, breaking things, rebuilding them, and figuring out what actually works in the real world. I’ve learned from: And I’ve studied the systems: But more importantly, I’ve applied them. On myself. On…
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Hypertrophy Training Systems
Muscle growth isn’t a workout. It’s a system. Most hypertrophy training you see online is built around: Push/Pull/Legs. Upper/Lower. Bro splits. None of those are wrong. But none of them are complete. Because muscle growth isn’t driven by a split. It’s driven by how well your training system manages: That’s where most people get stuck.…
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What Strongman Coaching Involves
Strongman coaching is about a lot more than just getting stronger. It pulls together programming, technical work, and performance planning, all built specifically around the demands of the sport. Every session has a point. Every phase moves you toward something. You’re training with direction instead of guessing, and you understand how each piece feeds your…
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Strongman Axle Press: Strategies for Improving Overhead Strength
The axle press is one of the most technical and humbling events in strongman. It looks like a simple overhead lift, until you grip a thick, non-rotating bar that gives you zero whip, zero rotation, and zero forgiveness. Grip becomes a limiter. The clean turns more technical. The press demands total-body tension from the floor…
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Endurance Training Systems
Most people train endurance the wrong way. Ask the average person what endurance training is and they’ll say: And most of the time, they just go hard, get tired, and call it a day. That’s not endurance training. That’s just fatigue. Real endurance training isn’t about how tired you can get. It’s about how long…
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