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Ultimate Chest Workout with Dumbbells: Your Growth Guide
Are you struggling to build a bigger chest with dumbbells? While this is a common issue for many lifters with limited equipment access, there is an easy solution. I will outline the ten exercises...
Wearing Knee Sleeves For Squats: Tips + How Much Do They Help?
As a powerlifting coach, I’m often asked if it’s worth wearing knee sleeves for squats, how they help, and how much additional weight one can expect to lift when wearing them. Here’s my response: ...
7 Types of Lifting Belts (Explaining The Pros, Cons, & Which Is Best)
Weightlifting belts come in different styles, thicknesses, and materials, and based on what kinds of activities and exercises you do in the gym, one type may be better than others. If you purchas...
Training Division 78: Built In The Plateau
There's a point in training where progress doesn't slow—it stops. The bar won't budge. The numbers don't climb. The momentum you thought you had disappears. Good. Because this is where the truth sh...
Training Division 77: Run From The Ghost
The hardest miles aren't on the road. They're the ones where the old version of you is still trying to pull you back. Somewhere around mile three or mile thirteen, depending on the day, the convers...
Training Division 76: The First Rep Back
You don’t notice how loud doubt gets until you try to come back. It fills the space between sets, questions the weight on the bar, and reminds you how far you feel from where you used to be. The fi...
Training Division 75: Grit, Not Glory
The lift that gets recorded.The competition attempt.The moment when the room goes quiet and all eyes turn toward you. Those seconds feel important because they’re visible. But visibility isn’t what...
Training Division 74: Move the Weight, Move Your Life
Every lift mirrors life: pressure, focus, breakthrough. The moments that test you most aren’t always loud but they shape how you show up when it counts. What you build quietly in training becomes w...
Training Division 73: Friction
Resistance is a gift. It scours weakness and sparks strength. Friction is uncomfortable by design. It’s the part of the lift where the bar slows down and everything in you wants relief. The stickin...
Training Division 72: Brace for Impact
We’ve been sold a lie about rest days; that they're the space in between the “real” work. That taking a day off is somehow letting yourself down. But ask any serious athlete or high performer who’...
Training Division 71: Forged in Routine
Most people look for the moment that changes everything. The breakthrough lift. The perfect cycle. The day it finally feels different. Those moments are rare. Most of what you'll do will feel routi...
Training Division 70: Beyond the Hype
The New Year always starts the same way. Energy is high, promises are loud, and conviction feels effortless. Gyms are full. Plans are ambitious. Everyone believes this time will be different, this ...
Training Division 69: Reps Define You
Identity isn’t formed in big moments. It’s built quietly, through repetition. The lifts you choose, the standards you keep, the habits you reinforce day after day. Over time, those reps stop being ...
Training Division 68: Price of Progress
Strength isn’t given, it’s earned through consistent effort. Every choice you make this year adds up. Invest wisely. Progress always costs something. Time. Energy. Comfort. There’s no version of st...
Training Division 67: Set the Course
Drift is subtle. It doesn’t feel like failure. It feels like flexibility. You still train, still sweat, still show up most days. But the edge dulls. Standards soften. Sessions start reacting to moo...
Training Division 66: The Breaking Point
The breaking point shows up quietly. Learn why standing steady in that moment shapes who you are inside the gym and beyond it.
Training Division 65: Pain is the Path
Progress lives in discomfort. Learn how recognizing productive pain, not avoiding it, builds patience, resilience, and real growth.