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The best coaches are able to coach people who are bad at something without making them feel like they are bad at it. This is a massive skill, I'll share my methods and what I've learned from 13 years of training in experienced lifters.

You'll get bored before you will ever get "too strong" or "too big". If lifting weights makes you less athletic, you weren't athletic in the first place.

I see this debate all the time, it's exhausting to watch people argue and make no progress. Allow me to help progress this conversation in a productive way.

I've got 27 years of training. The last 12 years I've trained every day literally. I've made plenty of mistakes. These are my top 5. Don't make these mistakes, learn from me and save time avoiding these same mistakes.

It feels taboo to even share my thoughts and opinions on motor unit recruitment. I'm gonna share them anyways. I have often said, training is not a science more than it is an art. There are too many variables and you cannot control them enough to learn through controlled environments. Recruiting motor units is an absolute art, and here is my full breakdown of how I interpret and use these concepts to my advantage in the gym

Assessing your progress can be difficult, especially if you don't know what you should be looking for and how often to look. I'll offer you my mindset and creative ways to ensure you accurately assess your progress and continue to hit PRs for a long time!

There are no secrets in the strength and conditioning or fitness world. Just a lot of details. In this case, the small details I discuss on the split squat ISO hold can lead to BIG results.

Overhead press being bad for you or dangerous has been one of the biggest lies out there and that idea deserves to be challenged. Allow me to give my full breakdown.

Low reps sets offer many benefits. There are still some misunderstandings around the topic. In this article my main goal is to breakdown WHY they work, and it's not much to do with the actual number of reps.

The Pendlay Row is great, but it's missing an element....leg drive. So I created a slightly altered version. The Power Row is essential to building mass, strength and power. Read this article to hear all it has to offer and why it works.

Whether you can't do a push up, you can do a LOT of push ups or your shoulders bother you when you try to do push ups, I've got a variation just for you. I am guessing most people have never seen 2 of these variations that I share.

You're not going to learn the technique for the 225 bench press technique on social media. This is because the experts that actually teach it, aren't on social media. Here are the concepts and tricks to improving your performance NOW.

Prep Sets is the mindset that most people need to maximize strength. Strength is measured in speed, and speed is the best way to prep for that max weight.

Squatting to full depth is very possible for nearly everyone. Here is a full guide how you or your athletes and clients can enjoy the highly revered ATG squat

Gaining weight is EXACTLY like working out. The food are the exercises and the portions are the reps and sets. Sometimes you don't feel like working out but you still do it because it's going to help you reach your goal. Eating is the same. You don't alway want to, you don't always like it. Do it anyways.

If you train in the weight room you have likely experienced some ailments time to time especially in the shoulder. Here are some great tips and solutions to help get around the issue.

Can't get any bigger? Tried everything? I bet not. Tonnage is the most underrated measure to track and assess hypertrophy. If you lift more weight for the same amount of reps overtime, I would argue there's some hypertrophy there. You just need the mindset and the vision, this article will help.

Turn the lat pulldown into a strength and type II fiber exercise using bands. I want to target my biggest and strongest fiber type from the first rep to the last rep, not just the last few reps in a set.

No one made the single arm DB Bench Press famous. It doesn't have a mom or dad. It's not a bodybuilding exercise, it's not a powerlifting exercise etc so it's just not a common exercise you see people doing. But it should be, here's my mindset on how I use it plus some tips and tricks.

You should RDL as much or more than your Deadlift. You just need the mindset, tips and tricks. I'll give them to you in this article.