Learn how to reduce technique breakdown and form creep to have the most optimal barbell technique for your body, reduce injury risk and prevent injury in powerlifting.

Learn how to find the most optimal barbell technique for your body, optimal performance, injury risk reduction, and athlete recovery in powerlifting.

When a powerlifter becomes injured in any respect, they rarely need to stop training or exclusively use non-barbell exercises during rehab. In fact, they must incorporate barbell training as rehab to optimize the athlete recovery process.

Learn why rate of perceived exertion (RPE) & estimated 1 rep max (E1RM) are the most important things to track in your barbell training log and how to use them to reduce injury & hit PRs.

Learn how to use RPE in powerlifting and barbell training to optimize strength development and injury prevention.

Learn the 3 best fatigue management hacks to avoid overtraining in powerlifting!

This Exercise Prescription Guide provides the best exercise, volume, & intensity for your barbell training program to reach your goals without injury!

Uncover the 4 most important questions to answer before beginning a barbell strength training program yourself or with a barbell coach.

Understand why post-operative protocols are lackluster and provide 3 ways to incorporate barbell strength training into early physical therapy.

PRSC Chris Haggit details about his journey to follow his dream of becoming a barbell coach and how Progressive Rehab & Strength gave him the tools to successfully accomplish his dream!

Wondering why you should become a physical therapist or stay in the physical therapy profession? In this article there are 3 motivations to help you pursue a career in physical therapy with the desire to integrate barbell training into the rehabilitation setting!

To become the best outpatient sports physical therapist, you need to help people restore what was lost and improve their lives through movement, education, strength, and autonomy in injury management and risk reduction in as little time as possible

If you’re training and have to take time off, miss reps during a session, get injured during a session or out of the gym, and your progress stalls while you’re in a progression, this article is here to help you!

Identify a few key things that lead to confidence and flow with initial evaluations: six things you should implement right now to start helping you feel more ease and confidence going into both physical therapy and powerlifting coaching initial consultations.

When it comes to the bench press, the technique of arching your back has become a somewhat controversial topic depending on who you talk to. Some people will say that it’s cheating, and others will tell you that you need to have a bigger arch to bench heavier weight. Determining the best technique for your bench press depends on your goals for the lift and your training.

If you’ve ever felt a sharp pain at the tip of your shoulder when lifting overhead or during a specific portion of the bench press and it’s held you back from expressing your strength, you've probably been diagnosed with shoulder impingement: a vague diagnosis that leaves you with the general advice of "Does that hurt? Don't do that". In the world of lifting, let me tell you: THERE IS A BETTER WAY.

As a new or seasoned coach, the purpose of a free consultation call is for you and the potential new client to learn about each other and see if you're the right fit. This article breaks down how to handle that first conversation and seal the deal!

You’re training hard, chasing PRs, and working your butt off to make a difference for yourself in and out of the gym. However, when things don’t go your way, you may end up in pain. Whether it’s a pain you’ve been dealing with forever or simply a new pain to add to the list, it sucks. Rest assured, it happens to the best of us.

In Part 2 of our article series on urinary incontinence in Powerlifting, we want to rule out the most easily modifiable factors, including belts, incorrect breathing, technical breakdown, and bloating. These fall under the realm of mechanical stress acting directly on the bladder that can cause leaking.

If you just started training with barbells or an elite-level powerlifter before losing gym access, it doesn't matter. Having not trained with a barbell for 3-4 months means you're a novice again. Don't stress! This is actually a good thing, so hear us out!

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!