Training Partners are Important But should you be training partners with your significant other? My wife does triathlons, 5k races and bike rides. Her goals are to do a century ride. Mine are to squat 500, bench 350 and deadlift 600. Doesn’t seem like something that would allow us to train together. But we make it […]
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Online Coaching seems to be the answer to both the need for expert instruction and the convenience that Garage Gym Lifters are looking for. But along with the convenience, lowered expense, large pool of candidates and expert feedback come with some drawbacks. What’s Bad About It: The Invisible Man– As someone who hires an online
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Online Coach Necessity or Luxury? When Jim Wendler released 5/3/1 it opened the floodgates. Suddenly it seemed as if everyone had to release a strength template, showcasing their ideas about how the general population should train. Some of these were excellent, well thought out and easy to adapt to individual needs. Others fit on a
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Location doesn’t matter until it does A prime location for a garage training facility has to be inexpensive, accessible, and convenient. Some storage units meet all of these requirements with just a little tweaking. I had a conversation in 2016 with two gentleman who were thinking about starting up their own garage gym. The problem was
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There is No Magic to Monday I received a text recently that read, “I’m feeling better. Should I train today or wait until Monday?” My answer was, “There is no magic to Monday”. If you feel good enough to train today, do whatever you would have done today if you hadn’t had the layoff. Yes, you
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The Beginning of My Tale You read Buy What You Need, Not What’s On Sale so now you’re ready to hear the story of my home gym beginning. When I first started training at home, all I had were two 70lb dumbbells and a wooden box. I had just started a new job and one of
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Blessed and Thankful Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Genesis 33:11 ESV I’m so thankful right now. It’s 7:51 on Thanksgiving morning and I can’t thank God enough for what He’s done for me. From the blessing of our new baby,
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My Sons and Daughters First of all, regardless of your reasons, I’m glad that you all decided to make regular exercise a part of your lives. Many young people your age don’t do this and most adults don’t encourage it. There are a lot of reasons for this: It’s not part of our culture Most
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I once read an article in a now defunct powerlifting magazine that made me chuckle. But first, I have to announce that because of this article, I have learned a new term. Cue the drum roll please. The word of the day is NARPs. NARP stands for Non Athletic Regular People. The lowercase “s” is for when you see
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What You Know About That G Code? The G Code : Lessons for Living an Extraordinary Life in the Real World is a nod to the unwritten rules that govern urban street life. Part autobiography, part blue-collar success manifesto with a dash of legacy building instruction. It’s written by Gregory “G Diesel” Santarsiero who I met roughly
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