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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...
Training Division 66: The Breaking Point
The breaking point shows up quietly. Learn why standing steady in that moment shapes who you are inside the gym and beyond it.
Training Division 65: Pain is the Path
Progress lives in discomfort. Learn how recognizing productive pain, not avoiding it, builds patience, resilience, and real growth.
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
Stepping back isn’t weakness. It’s how you reset, regain clarity, and return sharper, stronger, and ready for what’s next.
Training Division 63: Steel Mind, Heavy Hands
Strength falters when doubt takes over. This piece explores how mental steadiness decides the lift—and everything beyond it.
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
The work that matters happens unseen. A reflection on quiet discipline, consistency, and building strength without applause.
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...