I have a dream. I dream of a world where strength training experts train people for strength and fat loss experts help people lose weight. In this fantasy world, neither pretends that the other is a primary goal. In other words, my strength experts will not claim that fat loss will make you stronger, and … Read more
Relative Strength is muscular strength relative to body weight. Literally, relative strength is a person’s strength per kilogram or pound of body weight. Since absolute strength is the total strength, as defined by the total force that can be exerted regardless of body weight, relative strength is found by dividing the absolute strength by body … Read more
Originally published on August 12, 2009 I was thinking about proper breathing recently and it struck me that it’s a good example of how the nostalgia for old-time strongman stuff is sometimes just that…nostalgia. So much so people are actually selling material from the early 1900s over the internet. The strength game, in the past, has … Read more
Is strength training and getting stronger really focused on how much weight your lifting? Why, yes! Of course, it is. The popular entertainment site Buzzfeed loves to feature list articles where various ‘experts’ are asked questions. This probably actually means that the author simply features isolated quotes from their online articles, and pretends they interviewed a … Read more
Originally published on June 5, 2014 I used to give away a free PDF book entitled “Strength Training and Bodybuilding: How Different Are They?” This book explained, to my way of thinking and in no uncertain terms, how bodybuilding is a practice that is distinct from strength training. This was not a book that I ever … Read more
One of the most common questions about deadlifts is what muscle group you should predominantly feel working during the deadlift. Many people tend to feel the deadlift mostly in their lower back, for instance. Is this normal? Or, should you expect to feel the lift working a different muscle? Also related to this is where you … Read more