Barbell resistance training is the most effective type of exercise training to accomplish nearly all goals. From achieving a muscular and lean physique to maintaining health and function as you age, and rehabilitating from surgery and returning to your sport of choice. But often, doctors, physical therapists, and chiropractors shy away from “lifting weights” because they lack an understanding of safe and effective programming and technique implementation across the life and healthspan.
Where peeing in your pants was once thought to only affect women who’ve had babies or entered the years of menopause, peeing in your pants has become as common as a barbell athlete losing a deadlift due to grip failure. Over the last 8 years, the growth of powerlifting has been tremendous and participation at USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Raw Nationals has increased 6.8x from 183 in 2012 to 1,260 lifters in 2019.
At Progressive Rehab & Strength we not only aim to help athletes recover from injury and return to training and competing using the most up-to-date evidence-based strategies for long-term injury risk reduction, but we also aim to help clinical rehab students and professionals integrate this into their practice.
If you’ve had chronic low back pain with multiple acute episodes of increased pain that makes it nearly impossible for you to continue training and you tell your new physical therapist that the last PT you went to did electrical stimulation (e-stim), heat, dry needling and gave you a home exercise program with some boring breathing techniques and a balloon to help you rehab, we’re here to help you and tell you why these treatments are NOT long-term solutions and how you can creative longevity from your pain and injuries with barbell training!
Being strong and being fit are not the same thing. You don’t have to give up cardio when you start resistance training with barbells. Here’s exactly how to structure cardio into the Starting Strength Novice Linear Progression. So keep on doing your conditioning, cardio, or hobbies. Let’s be strong and fit!
Barbell resistance training is the BEST way to get stronger and will improve all aspects of your life. f you’re afraid of resistance training and afraid of picking up a barbell, stop! Being physically strong has more benefits than I can count on both hands and feet. Strength is the foundation of everything related to health, fitness, sports performance, and human survival.
You’re following a templated program like 5/3/1, SS NLP, Texas Method, Cube, Conjugate Method, HLM, and you’re doing it alone and have read the books and the articles that come along with your program, but you aren’t quite sure exactly how to transition your program along the way. We’re here to help you figure it all out in this article!
You’re not the only one struggling with the amount of time training takes and how it works with your life schedule.
And since life is life, we need to have some mental and programmable strategies to decrease anxiety and optimize the situation to get the most out of training during difficult and stressful times.
In this article, Coach Will discusses the importance of carbohydrates for all Strength Trainees around workouts. This article goes into understanding when or how much to eat before, during, and after stepping into the gym and helps you understand how to time your carbs properly to improve performance and recovery allowing you to eek out the absolute most from training.
You’ve been barbell training for a while. Maybe today’s your first day under the bar. Wherever you are on your strength journey, you know that putting weight on your back, or in your hands, feels some type of way. Some days the weight feels how you expect it to feel like, some days it feels like loose-leaf paper, and other days it feels like a humpback whale.
What are the first exercises you think of when someone says they’re doing “upper body?” Bench press? Biceps and triceps? Dumbbell lateral raises? The obsession with growing arms, shoulders, and chest means cable columns, dumbbells, and benches are abundant in any gym with a weight room. So why do so many strength programs underemphasize, underrate, or completely omit the most important exercise for developing upper body strength and maintaining shoulder health?
We’ve all seen and heard it before - the advice on how to “tone up”, “bulk up” (or NOT bulk up), “get shredded”, “lean out”, etc... If you’re like me you’ve probably tried light weights, heavy weights, sets of 8, sets of 20, supersets, cardio, yoga, circuit training… the list goes on. So why did it all stop working eventually? Why do your pants not fit better? Why don’t you have 21-inch biceps? Chances are, at one point or another, you’ve succumbed to at least 1 of 5 common myths about strength training in your pursuit of a leaner, “more toned”, or muscular physique. Well, I’m here to set the record straight!
