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2015 marks the beginning of my 18th year in a weight room. The amount of knowledge one can accrue in 18 years is astounding. I have had the privilege of interacting with a ridiculously large number extremely educated and informed minds in the iron game. I...

Summertime is almost here! If you live in Wisconsin, you might need to wait for June, but if you live in San Diego, summer is already here. When it comes time to kick it on the beach all day and drink a cold beverage at a beachside bar, we want to have the abs to...

In early July, I spent 5 days hanging out with one of my best friends from early childhood. We were inseparable from 5-12 years old, playing basketball together for hours every day. This consumed us, and then he moved to Switzerland. We continued our...

Full disclosure, I have always used percentages in programming for athletes. It makes sense because it keeps a progressive structure, it ensures small loading is added to the bar, and it allows for programming deload weeks or to oscillate intensities. But...

To Fail or not to fail… Training to failure is a topic of prime importance these days. Failure can be defined in a couple different ways: In the Olympic lifting world, failure is defined by missing a rep. In Bodybuilding, failure is the result of training...

With a small tweak, the same program can work for either goal I love Mondays. I wasn’t always able to say this. In the past, Mondays were the most dreaded day, because it meant another 5-day work week in corporate America. Mondays now represent the...

Soreness When we train, we get sore. This seems to be a trend. Train hard, put in the effort, and you are rewarded with muscle soreness, or DOMS, as it is called (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness). Today, I want to delve a little deeper into the phenomenon of...

Perfect Practice: Creating Good Habits 100 Power Cleans On Saturday afternoon, it was pouring rain. That same morning, at 6:15am, I was shaken out of deep sleep by the skies splitting open; the loudest strike of thunder I had heard in my eight years in San...

In part 1 of the article, I discussed the Anaerobic system. I mentioned that anaerobic training is easily identified by the rest period being longer than the working period. In contrast, Aerobic work is defined by the rest period being shorter than the...

This will be a running blog where we’ll delve into something that is near and dear to my heart – PROGRAMMING! Just a brief “manual” of sorts defining the types of workouts we are doing, and some of the dorky science behind it. I will also briefly cover how...