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Starting Your Coaching Business

Matt Reynolds, CEO of Barbell Logic, speaking on Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast about transforming the fitness industry with online coaching.

Matt Reynolds on the Table Talk Podcast with Dave Tate

Where Will Your Habits Leave You?

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Stress Incontinence

Lifting and programming

Bad Obsession

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Seeing the Subtle, Simply: Squat Mechanics and You

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The Metamorphosis of the Novice Coach and Novice Programming

Coaching Endurance Training

Coaching Athletes: Endurance Training Part 3

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Coaching Athletes: Endurance Training Part 2

Endurance Training for Athletes

Coaching Athletes: Endurance Training Part 1

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The Ultimate Guide to Leggings (Part 3): Men’s Leggings

Ultimate Guide to Women's Leggings

The Ultimate Guide to Leggings (Part 2): Women’s Leggings

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The Ultimate Guide to Leggings (Part 1): Start Here

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AI in Coaching

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A General Conditioning Program for Health and Fitness

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Task-Dependent Conditioning

Business of Coaching

The Business of Coaching: Thriving During Hard Economic Times

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How We Heal: Muscle Injuries

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How We Heal: Tendon Injuries

Why Play More

Why We Should Play More

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Fighting Against the Crowd

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Ad Hoc Workout Plan and Training Principles

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Post Novice Training: “Hunt the Good Stuff”

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Lifting as Prevention: Musculoskeletal Injuries

Start with the Setup

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What Do Phantom Limbs and Lifting Have in Common?

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The Many Faces of the PR: Programming for Data and Feedback

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Flexibility and Stretching

Coaching Athletes for the Private Strength and Conditioning Coach

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Coaching and Programming Adjustments for Seniors

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How to Get Stronger: Elements of Using Strength

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Failed Reps: Why You Fail

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Deadlifts and Back Pain

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Working Out in the Heat (Summer Training Benefits and Safety)

Nutrition Bars: Healthy or Harmful?

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Escape the Cooking Rut: How to Not Get Bored with Healthy Food

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Oven-Cooked Chicken Breast: No Fowl Play

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Strength Training to Brain Training: Learn New Skills for Long-Term Benefits

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Old Time Strongman and the Home Gym (Strength History)

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How to Never Miss a Workout

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Too Much, All the Time: SRA, FFM, and Tonnage

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Kyphosis? Maybe Not! (Rounded Back Deadlifts)

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Training with Tattoos: An Ink-query

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Test Your Might: When and How to Take an Unscheduled PR

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Building Strength in your Wants, Awareness, and Boundaries

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“Punishers”: Corrective Exercises in Online Coaching

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Nutritional Differences for Women

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Getting in Shape for Good

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Minerva, World’s Strongest Woman (Strength History)

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Is a Calorie a Calorie?

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Healthier Baking: Strategies and Recipe Ideas

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The Bionic Man

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From The Ground Up

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Facing the Dreadlift

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The Only Fitness Article You’ll Ever Need to Read

Peter’s Adductor Rehab

New Years Resolutions Success

New Year’s Resolve

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The Science and Practice of Getting Started: Day One

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Happy and Healthy Holidays: Nutritional Strategies for Less Stress

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Your Holiday Workout Plan

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Barbells and Back Again (Part 2): A Wife’s Tale of Becoming a Client

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Barbells and Back Again (Part 1): A Husband’s Tale of Coaching His Wife’s Return to Barbells

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Eat Your Beans and 5 Beginner Bean Recipes

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BCAA Benefits: Helpful or Hype?

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Pandemic Programming Part 3: A Lifter’s Survival Guide

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Nutrition: Linking to Longevity

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Breathing: An Introduction to Breathwork

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Processed Foods

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Focus on Execution: A Mental Approach to Lifting

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Take Charge: Kitchen Essentials for Starting Out or Starting Over (Again)

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Becoming a Barbell Coach: Study, Practice, and Application

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Training Plates

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Pandemic Programming Part 2: Programming Behavior Change

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Resting for Strength Gains

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Occupational Identity & Client-Centered Coaching: An OT Perspective

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Nutrition for Endurance Athletes

Sedentary Activities

Sedentary Activities: Can You Outwork Sitting?

What is coaching?

What is Coaching: A Two-Level View

Model Informed Coaching

Model-Informed Coaching: Investigating the Drop and Pop Deadlift

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Training Gear: Clothes, Shoes, Lifting Belts, and More

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Strength Training for BJJ: More Mat Time, Fewer Injuries

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Pandemic Programming for Strength

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Deadlift Muscles Worked: Grip Function and Training

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What Does Creatine Do? Compiling Research and an FAQ

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Coaching Lifters with Depression (Part 4): Programming Strategies

Increase Your Gravity

Increase Your Gravity: Strength, Health, and Space

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Strength Programming: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Changes

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Rising to the Challenge and Defining Yourself

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Coaching Lifters with Depression (Part 3): Coaching Considerations

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Nutrition for Kids

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MED for the Military

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Assessing the Army’s New Health & Fitness Doctrine (Part 2 of 2)

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Assessing the Army’s New Health & Fitness Doctrine (Part 1 of 2)

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Professional Transitions: Starting from Scratch

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The Field Guide Series: Romanian Deadlift

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Coaching Lifters with Depression (Part 2): Training Benefits

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The BLOC Approach: Client-Centered, Model-Informed, for Life

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Coaching Lifters with Depression: An Introduction (Part 1)

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The Rack Pull Field Guide

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How to Not Totally Suck as a New Coach: A People Business

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How to Not Totally Suck as a New Coach: A Risky Business (Medical Edition)

Performing the Sumo Deadlift

How to Sumo Deadlift

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Time to Feast: How Much Can One Meal Impact Body Composition?

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Rethinking the Exercise Selection Criteria

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Does Lifting Weights Stunt Growth?

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Deadlift Form Fixes: Becoming a Deadlift Machine

How to Get Stronger with Programming Changes

When to Step Back: Ramping Up Progress with More Recovery

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The Post Novice Series

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Self-Efficacy and Strength Training

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Relationship Between Nutrition and Sleep

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Carole Reading: A Profile in Strength

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The Barbell Health Series

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Becoming Whole: Training for Health

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A Nutritional Guide to Medical Checkups

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The Interview Series

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Elbow Pain While Lifting Weights: Tendinitis and the Squat

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Professional Transitions: How to Finance Your Freedom

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Proper Precautions for Strength Training Safety

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RDL vs Stiff Leg Deadlift: Details, Cues, and Programming

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Knee Pain and Squatting

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Professional Transitions: Expand Your Options

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Back to Basics: The Fundamentals of Technique

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Transformational Leadership: Parallels with Strength Training

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Professional Transitions: Reject the Default and Choose Your Future

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Organic vs. Nonorganic Foods

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Content Marketing 101

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Barbell Hunting 101

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Why Fiber?

The Press: Muscles Worked

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Overhead Strength

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The Coach’s Personality

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The Muscles Worked in the Squat

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The 5 + 1 Deadlift Eye

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Hunger 101

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Bench Press Muscles Worked

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Optimizing Nutrition for Recovery

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Summer Accessory Work and Conditioning

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Muscles Worked in the Deadlift

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Simple Supplementation

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How to Choose Quality Protein Supplements

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(Don’t Let It) Rust in Peace: How to Restore a Rusty Barbell

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Failing a Rep: Novice Troubleshooting

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More is Better

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Muscle vs. Fat

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The Capable Coach: From Good to Great

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The Learning Curve of Disasters

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Athleticism for Strength Training Success

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DIY: Training Bar and Plates

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Immersive Learning

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Training Without a Gym

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Getting Started with Meal Prep

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Protein as We Age

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You Are Not a Tactical Athlete

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Should You Train for Power?

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Compassionate Coaching for Client Breakthroughs

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Greater than the Sum of Your Parts

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Nutrition for Aesthetics, Performance, and Health

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Be Your Own Action Hero

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Coaching: The Novice Stage—Learn to Execute

Learn Barbell Lifts Cues

Improve the Barbell Lifts with Tasks

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Coaching Standards and Objectives

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Survival and Your Irrational Mind

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The Science and Art of Coaching

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Sticking to New Year’s Resolutions

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The Western Diet: What We Can Learn and How We Can Change It

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It’s Messy in the Middle

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Treat vs Cheat: A Paradigm Shift

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Gamification and Your Goals

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The Coach’s Path to Mastery

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Mind and Muscle: What Controls Your Effort?

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Lifting in the Dark: Strength Training and Depression

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Mental Toughness

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Endurance Training

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How to Learn Midfoot Balance and Set Your Back

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The BEEFCAKE

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The Strength Connection

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Heavy Light Medium (HLM): A Common-Sense Framework

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The Texas Method: Method vs. Template (Part 2)

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The Texas Method: Clear Goals, Measurable Changes, and Applicability

“It is quite true that man lives by bread alone—when there is no bread. But what happens to man’s desires when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled?
At once other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than physiological hungers, dominate the organism. And when these in turn are satisfied, again new (and still higher) needs emerge, and so on. This is what we mean by saying that the basic human needs are organized into a hierarchy of relative prepotency.” —from Abraham H. Maslow, “Motivation and Personality,” p. 38 (1954)

Training for Control and the Hierarchy of Needs

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Programming for Your Bench Press

Finding Your First Clients

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Four Day Split Programming: Bringing Order with MED Principles

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Finding the Touch-Point for Your Bench Press

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Creating Intentional Spaces for Training

Lifting Shoes for Deadlifts?

Caffeine for Training and Press Pot Coffee

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Flow State Training for Lifting

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What Does Gym Chalk Do?

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Training With Limitations

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Training to Fight Fires: The Red Card Pack Test

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Are You Undervaluing Strength?

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Squat Depth: A Repeatable Range of Motion

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The Rules of Cueing Have Changed

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Rest Between Sets is Good for Your Form

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The Opportunity Cost of Strength

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How Much Is Enough?

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The Problem With Strength (Philosophy of Strength)

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Practice with Purpose: The Path to Coaching Excellence

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Getting Started in Strongman

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Strength and Longevity

With a friend holding you in place, use your legs to push your body into them.

Build Your Bench Press Arch

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How to Program Assistance Work

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Are You Born Athletic? The Role of Genetics in Sports Performance

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Minimum Effective Dose: A Practical Approach for the Early-Advanced Trainee

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Overhead Press Progression and Training Variables

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Training Your Core for Functional Fitness

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How to Take a Cue

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Signs of Overtraining

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How to Bounce Back from a Bad Workout

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How Many Calories Does Lifting Burn?

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Avoiding Burnout

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Recovery and Sleep

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Recovery and Water

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Let’s Talk About Recovery

You Need Lifting Shoes

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Homeostasis: A Framework for Strength Gains

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Squats and Your Back: Common Myths

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Strength Training for the Low-Priority Lifter

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Stress and Homeostasis

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Building Better Practices: Strength Training Warm-up Sets

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The Squat Frequency Project

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Strength History: Strongwoman Icon Katie Sandwina

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Training for Balance

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How to Set Goals: Goal Characteristics

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How to Get the Most Out of Online Coaching

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How to Set Goals: Don’t “Do Your Best”

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Why You Should Embrace Change

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Strength and Martial Arts: You Can Do Both

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Role Model’s Influence in Our Quest for Strength

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Rehabbing Adductor Tendonitis

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Spend Less Time in the Gym

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Squat Myths and Misconceptions (Part 2): Taking Down the Knee Naysayers

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Training on the Road (Part 2): Equipment

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Training on the Road: Planning

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How to be a Lifting Skeptic

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Falling In and Out of Love with the Lifts

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Expectations for Post-Novice Lifters and Traps to Avoid

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The Core Values: Insight Into Barbell Logic Online Coaching’s Culture

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Squat Myths and Misconceptions – Confronting Broscience

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Strength History: Performance vs Training

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We are Thankful for Strength

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Five Reps or Five Seconds; Victory or Honor

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The Tyranny of the Urgent

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Lifting Rituals – Are They Useful or Crazy?

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Injury Prevention in Young Athletes

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Strength History: Eugen Sandow’s System of Physical Training

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In-Season vs Off-Season Strength Training for Sports

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In Defense of the Training Log

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How To Share Training with the Masses

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Coach is Your Co-Pilot

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Starting Sports: General vs Specific Strength

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Lifting with Da Vinci: Anthropometry and Art

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Novice Linear Progression: An Individualized Program

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Be a Novice, Build Your Training History

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Introducing the Coaching Academy

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Take Your Strength Outside

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Novice LP: Why We Love It and You Should Too

Don’t Fear the Barbell

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Train Your Brain: Deliberate Practice

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Better Movement = Better Lifting

Coaching Cues

5 Tips for Following Coaching Cues

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Why Coaches Add Value to Your Training

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The Importance of Form and Consistency in Setting PRs

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Who’s the Competition? You vs You

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Lifestyle of Strength: It’s “Our Thing”

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The Diversity of Masters Athletes

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Managing the Mental Game

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Depression and Strength Training

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Aristotle, Matt Reynolds, and the Origins of Voluntary Hardship

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The Most Important Thing You’re Not Doing BEFORE You Squat

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Strength Performers and Early Barbells

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