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A Few of Our Favorite Things

This week we’re sharing our coach’s favorite gym equipment over on Instagram, so I wanted to share about what is most important for a new lifter starting out. If you are brand new, I suggest no new equipment. You can...

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Lifting for Everyday Athletes

We’ve been sharing about our lifters who competed recently at RPS and Beer Muscles, but I wanted to share a bit this week about the strength training for people who don’t want to compete. I’ve been seeing so many news...

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Powerlifting for Beginners!

Several of our members just competed at RPS powerlifting meet and we’ve got several more training for Christmas Carnage in December. Powerlifting, at it’s core, is a simple sport: the goal is to squat, bench, and deadlift the most weight...

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Post Comp Recovery

It’s the week after your competition, you feel pretty good and not too beat up from your show, so you decide to get back into the gym. But when you get there, weights that should feel light are moving like...

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Mobility Work for Strength

Mobility is a topic that comes up a lot for lifters, and I’d like to give some info on why it is important, and how to incorporate mobility training into your lifting. Before we dig in, let’s talk about what...

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After Your Competition

Last weekend was our Rainbow Rumble Push Pull competition, and we packed PPG with powerlifting athletes and spectators in a celebration of strength and Pride! Our athletes ranged from pretty new to very experienced, as young as 14-years-old, and with...

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Sanctioned or Unsanctioned?

This weekend, we’re hosting our unsanctioned push-pull competition at PPG, Rainbow Rumble. We also recently had an unsanctioned strongman, Catalina Strongman Mixer. I thought this was a good time to talk about competing in sanctioned versus unsanctioned events and what...

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Fitness on the Road

I’m away this week for the final week and graduation from the Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses program. We’re all in NYC, and we’ve got a busy couple of days, but upon checking into my hotel, I had a couple...

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Move Throughout Your Day

This Wednesday May 15 is National Employee Health and Fitness Day. Maybe the company you work for is doing something to honor it, or maybe they’re not. We’re going to talk today about some strategies for getting a bit more...

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Comp Day Packing Tips

With our Catalina Strongman Mixer coming up this weekend, it seemed like a great time to share about packing for your competition! We have a printable comp day packing list on our LinkTree, and it is a helpful tool if...

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Sleep to Get Gainz

When was the time in your life when your sleep was the worst? I know for sure mine was when my younger child was an infant. He was the worst sleeper as a baby, and it was an awful time...

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Women in Powerlifting

I did my first powerlifting meet in 2018. At that time, I was over 30, falling into the “submaster” category. I had only begun my journey into lifting weights about a year prior. Walking into that first meet, I was...

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