I had a few athletes once come to me during a session with their club team complaining of their backs hurting “like crazy.” Like any normal person would, I asked them when the pain started. For all three of them, the pain started when deadlifting in their PE class (all of them were in the same class). While some may jump to conclusions and start the battle cry for needing high school strength and conditioning coaches, I knew their PE teacher and that they do a decent job teac

I think people get married to ideas, methodologies, and exercises. I'll lump myself into that group as well. I'll admit that I've known of the benefits of unilateral training for a while yet never implemented it. Until I started getting hurt, I hit plateaus, and honestly felt like I was working for nothing. Now, I'm not necessarily a competitive weightlifter. It's just something I am passionate about because I find beauty in working against the natural forces of the earth. I

Recently, the facility I work at has been having some renovations going on that will add on to the side of our building. Since our facility is essentially a huge warehouse style metal building, this new structure is also of that type. What's mind blowing to watch is the process of setting a framework to have walls and a roof attached to, and mezzanine built of concrete. The first beam that was put up is 40 feet tall and swayed in the wind, and somehow managed to stay upright