I hope you are enjoying your weekend! Time to catch up on some fitness reading.

This week’s edition will catch you up to speed with strength tips, articles, and footage from my deadlift training.

Enjoy!

Strength Tips

Monday

*Break down your seemingly overwhelming goals into smaller tasks.

Losing 30 pounds may SOUND like an impossible task.

It’s not!

While losing 30 pounds sounds like a lot, losing 1 to 2 pounds a week seems very manageable.

Begin by breaking down your initial weight loss goal into simple, practical tasks. Focus on tackling the first task in your process towards achieving your goal.

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I hope you are enjoying your weekend! Time to catch up on some fitness reading.

This week’s edition will  include five strength tips, fifteen recommended  fitness readings and an interview with one of the all-time greatest bench pressers, Kirill Sarychev.

Enjoy!

Strength Tips

*Monday

There are helpful takeaways from both good and bad training sessions.

It’s easy to take successful days for granted. Instead, consider what you did well so you can repeat it.

Bad days also provide great insight. They let us know what we need to work on. Instead of worrying about a bad day, learn from it and improve next time.

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Good Reads 9/15/2014

I hope you are enjoying your weekend! Time to catch up on some fitness reading.

This week’s edition will catch you up to speed with strength tips and articles by myself and others.

Enjoy!

Strength Tips

*Here’s a quick tip to help with pull-ups.

Think about pulling with your elbows.

Pull-ups primarily target the lats, so you should feel the lats doing a majority of the work. Pull-ups also target the biceps along with many other muscles, but that doesn’t mean you should feel like you did a set of biceps curls after every set of pull-ups.

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