Managing your own training when you are a strength coach can be a difficult task. You spend 60+ hours at the gym, much of it training clients and writing programs and then you are there even more to get your own training in. Sometimes, especially in the off-season, the discipline just to get your training in can be rough. Not only is there so many things that you’d like to be doing other than spending more hours at your job, but even when you do train, you are still the coac

Some time ago, I wrote an article to you about why I wasn’t ready for geared lifting. Well, the time has come where I am ready to make the jump and start testing my strength in some equipment. Just like I did the break down with the reasons why I had not yet made that leap, I will do the same with why it's time. 1. More to Achieve I have now met many of my raw lifting goals. Though there are always more, I have realized that I am ready for some different goals that I want to

On April 16th, I competed in the Women’s Pro Am in Cincinnati, OH. This meet is hosted by Laura Phelps, who runs a wonderful well run event. I had a blast and I am so glad that I did it this year. I was originally planning on competing at the Arnold in March, but because of an injury to my hand, I was unable to properly prepare for it. We left on Thursday afternoon to head down to Cincinnati. It is about 7 hours of drive time to go straight though, but we had to stop in Colum

I am not a powerlifter. However, my business partner and good friend Sabrina Provoast is. I thought I had been exposed to powerlifting somewhat by being a strongwoman and doing the big three on a semi-regular basis in training. Boy was I wrong. I got talked into doing my first meet by Beth Thomas, who then introduced me to Sabrina. It was kind of a “what the hell, I’ve dabbled in everything else, why not?” idea. So in late October 2015, I competed alongside Sabrina as she hit

During my time in powerlifting, I have traveled to some of the top gyms and trained with some of the strongest athletes in the sport. This in itself has been one of the main attributes to my success in powerlifting. With this being said, ask you yourself what you are willing to give up, how much time are you going to dedicate, where will you travel, and how much will you step out of your comfort zone to put yourself around those who are the best in the business. Travel Ask an

For the past couple years, I have had the plans to one day compete in gear. Although it has been hard for me to not make the switch over to “the dark side,” there are many reasons that I have not. I know that there are many people out there that have dealt with the same dilemma, so here I will share some of my reasoning for waiting. 1. More To Achieve I believe that if I made the switch over to geared lifting now, I would feel that I had some sort of unfinished business in th

As many have experienced, injuries are quite common in not only the sport of Powerlifting, but in the strength and athletic world as a whole. Depending on many factors including the severity of the injury, the individuals pain tolerance or quite honestly the willpower of the athlete, people can and will perform injuries aside. The question is, when is it ok to work through them, when should we hold off, and when should we stop being a baby and suck it up? I think that all the