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Prioritize Recovery to Maximize Gains

I was recently doing a goal review with a client who was disappointed she hasn’t been adding as much to her lifts as she’d hoped. When we dug in a bit more about how she’s been doing, we discovered that...

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What Makes PPG Different

At Power Plant Gym, you’ll find we do things a bit differently than some other gyms do. We work with people ranging from youth to older adults, and we help them all find their strongest selves! We help people to...

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Health Promoting Behaviors

Many of our members come to us with health goals, ranging from reducing pain, to improving health metrics like cholesterol or blood pressure, to managing specific conditions. Strength training can help with all of these, along with offering tons of...

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Beer Muscles 9 Sponsors & Donors

Sponsors Raffle Donors Want to support this event? Email jess@thepowerplantgym.com for details! Our raffle proceeds benefit the Special Olympics team of Delaware County and to date we’ve raised $9000 for the team to support their coaching, equipment, and competition fees!

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Moving Through an Injury

Our coaching team recently completed the Barbell Rehab Method certification program. The program focuses on using barbell movements for people with pain and injury. In any given year, about a third of people experience an injury. Fortunately, our bodies are...

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Compound Lifts

Compound lifts are movements that engage multiple muscle groups and joints at the same time. If you are moving at multiple joints, it is a compound lift. If you’re moving only one joint, it is an isolation movement. While isolation...

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Starting With a Barbell

I was in a training program for small business owners last year and received an assignment to find something in my business that I felt was the symbol for our business. After looking around our gym a bit, I realized...

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Benefits to Competition as a Beginner

I recently started working with a new client who is interested in competing but wasn’t sure if it is a realistic goal for her. Hearing this goal got me so excited—I know she’s going to crush it on the platform!...

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Returning to Exercise in Eating Disorder Recovery

It’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and intentional movement in eating disorder recovery can be a minefield. Some people in recovery are terrified to return to exercise because of the harmful relationship they’ve had with intentional movement in their eating disorder....

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Getting Back to Lifting After a Break

Sometimes your fitness ends up taking a backseat, maybe to life changes, illness, injury. Life happens, and it’s not easy to get back into it. A member recently joined our LIFT program who had been working out and making good...

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Do You Wanna Be a Strongman?

We talk to a lot of folks who see the stuff we do in strongman and say, “I could never do that!” We also talk to a lot of folks who ask, “Do you think I could do that?” Here’s...

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Mental Transformations

A lot of people we coach talk about the mental transformation that came with lifting being as important as any physical changes. Interestingly, few people say their goals include mental or emotional changes when they start. Regular strength training is...

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