In tha Beginning, There was WL 6 Weeks | 4 Days per week Beginner Weightlifting Program As the name implies, this is one of our most trusted beginner programs. Like the seminal album In tha Beginning, There was Rap we cover all the classics. The goal is to improve positional awareness and strength, by pausing…
Please pay attention to the weekly guidelines at the bottom of the excel sheet to know how to plan your daily numbers.
2 Simple Do’s and Don’ts for Better Lifts Before you dive in this is not an article about technique, or programming, but these might be 2 of the easiest fixes you can make if you want to be better at weightlifting. Hell they might be 2 of the easiest things you can do to be…
Whole Foot, Whole Time: Balance in Weightlifting Movements Here I am teaching a course on weightlifting looking across the room at a giant poster on the wall with depictions of how the athlete should snatch and clean and jerk. Nothing overtly wrong with it, until I look at the little diagram on the poster of…
Training at Thresholds: How to not kill yourself training for weightlifting Staring at your program and looking at what’s on tap for the day, you’re likely to see one of two things. Option 1: A hard and fast percentage of your best lift. Written in blood, on a tablet of stone, you have to hit…
How Often Should you PR? Recently the following question was posed to me: How often should I PR? Specifically this was a masters lifter, running into some frustration on how he should gauge improvement. Weightlifting, in the first couple years, can set you up for a royal mind trick down the road. It’s as if…
On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Coach Tim Socha, University of Washington Strength Coach.
Performance Podcast-Brian Nguyen On what might be our best episode ever, Coach Dos and I interview Brian Nguyen. Brian has gained fame as the trainer of Mark Wahlberg. Brian shares with us his journey from working in the NFL, to working on movies, running a successful gym. How 2 tragedies have shaped his career. Why…
