All things
weightlifting.

Technique, programming, recovery and the equipment questions underneath them. 14 pieces, written for people who train.

Every piece

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Technique

Programming

Recovery

Equipment

Testing

Progressive overload without adding weight

Load is one of four variables and the least available one. What to move instead, and in what order.

Programming

Sep 29, 2026

5 min

How to know a set was actually hard

Effort is a feeling and it lies. Reps in reserve, and the one tell that does not.

Programming

Sep 22, 2026

5 min

Tempo: the variable most people never decide

Two lifters, same load, same ten reps, twelve seconds against forty. They did not do the same exercise.

Technique

Sep 15, 2026

4 min

Breathing and bracing under load

"Tighten your core" has a specific meaning, it is learnable in ten minutes, and it is not pulling your navel in.

Technique

Sep 8, 2026

5 min

Grip is the limiter nobody trains

Three grips, three problems, and why a well-shaped handle hides two of them.

Technique

Aug 27, 2026

4 min

Thirty-three movements, ranked by how badly people do them

Not a ranking of difficulty. A ranking of how reliably people get them wrong, based on watching them get them wrong.

Technique

Aug 18, 2026

6 min

When to deload, and how to tell

A planned easy week. The signals that call for one, in order of how much you should trust them. Soreness is not on the list.

Recovery

Aug 11, 2026

5 min

Programming around shift work and broken sleep

Most training advice assumes you sleep at night. On a rotation that advice is not slightly wrong, it is written for someone else.

Recovery

Jul 30, 2026

6 min

How to program a week on one block

Three heavy days, two conditioning days, one core day and one that keeps you moving. A worked example, not a rule.

Programming

Jul 21, 2026

6 min

The five-rep circuit, and why short beats clever

Ten movements, five reps, on a three-minute clock. It looks too simple to be a program. The clock is the program.

Programming

Jul 9, 2026

5 min

Train for the test: ACFT, CPAT and POPAT on a steel block

If your fitness test is a job requirement, the program should be written backwards from the events you actually get scored on.

Testing

Jun 24, 2026

7 min

Which weight should you actually buy?

Four loads, one footprint. The honest answer depends on what you can hold form with, not what you can lift once.

Equipment

Jun 10, 2026

4 min

What twenty-three years of hotel gyms teaches you about equipment

Someone has spent real money to fill a room, and the room still does not work. That is a controlled experiment.

Equipment

May 28, 2026

5 min

Why a cinder block was the right shape all along

Nobody designed it for training. It survived because it stacks, and because a person can carry one in each hand.

Equipment

May 14, 2026

5 min

The object

Everything here assumes
one block and a floor.

Solid American steel, four loads, one footprint. Made in the USA and shipped in two to three business days.

Military & group sales

Everything here assumesone block and a floor.

Everything here assumes
one block and a floor.