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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...
Why Tracking Your Workouts Changes Everything
Most people don’t stall out in the gym because they aren’t working hard enough. It’s because they’re training without consistent tracking. When you don’t track your workouts, it’s easy to repeat t...
Training Division 64: Pause to Power Up
The grind doesn’t define you, your ability to sustain it does. Reflecting for a moment doesn’t slow your momentum. It strengthens it. The holidays offer something training rarely does: space to br...
Training Division 63: Steel Mind, Heavy Hands
A strong body can only take you so far. The mind decides the rest. Every lifter knows the moment when the bar feels heavier than expected. Not because your strength failed, but because hesitation ...
4 Workout Tracking Tips to Maximize Your Results
Looking to make the most out of your gym sessions in 2026? You don’t need more motivation; you need better data. Consistently tracking your workouts transforms training from best-guesses into repea...
Training Division 62: Built in Silence
Greatness doesn’t announce itself; it’s forged where no one’s looking. There’s a part of training most people never see. Not the PRs. Not the highlights. Not the posted clips or the loud victories....
Training Division 61: The Weight Never Lies
There’s a moment in every lifter’s journey when the truth hits harder than the weight itself. No cheering crowd. No angle to hide behind. Just you and the bar—cold, indifferent, and brutally honest...
Training Division 60: The Grind Within
The greatest battles are often unseen—the inner work that fuels the outer results. You can load the bar. You can stack the plates. But none of it matters if the battle inside you isn’t won first. T...
Training Division 59: Built in the Dark
Your biggest wins often come when no one’s watching—just you, the work, and the will to show up. The spotlight is seductive. Recognition feels good. But the real foundation of greatness is built in...
Training Division 58: The Legacy Rep
Every session is part of a bigger story. Train like your legacy depends on it—because it does. Each rep is small. Each session is just another day. But stacked together, they become something grea...
Training Division 57: Discipline Over Motivation (Redux)
When motivation slips, systems keep you moving. Discipline is the long game. Motivation is a spark. It feels good—but it fades. Discipline is the framework that stands when sparks die out. This is...
Training Division 56: The Balance of Ambition
Chase big goals—but know when to pull back. Pushing too hard without rest breaks the mission. Ambition is a fire. Left unchecked, it burns out everything in its path—including you. But aimed with ...
Tap into the strength that drives action when comfort holds you back. Strength is easy when the music’s loud, the gym is buzzing, and you’re fired up. But real strength shows up when all of that di...
Titles don’t mean much. Respect and results are earned—never handed out. It’s easy to flash a label, to grab a title, to talk about what you “do.” But titles fade fast under the bar. The weight doe...
Sweat Equity There’s no shortcut to greatness. Every drop of effort invested now is a deposit in your future. Everyone wants the results. Everyone wants the end state—the physique, the total, the s...