The bad news: You can’t go hard all the time. It’s the quickest way to burn out — to see your progress stall, to get injured, and to lose interest in your training. The good news: A bodybuilding-style approach to the offseason has a ton of benefits for the powerlifter.

You’re a big dog now and the good ol’ days of TWO heavy pressing days per week won’t work anymore. So, what’s the answer? My answer is to train shoulders specifically in a predetermined offseason with these weird exercises. They work!

High-rep training is extraordinarily useful to powerlifters (even if it’s also extraordinarily unpleasant). Like any other programming tool, however, it needs to be used appropriately, or it can cause more harm than good.

There is a difference between what I want now and what I want most.

These two recipes will let you indulge your pumpkin cravings whether your dieting or bulking this fall season.

I grill Ken Skip Hill, debrief Agent X, and de-shell Shelby Starnes to find the optimal diet plan after a bodybuilding show.

Arms have always been a weak point for me, and they still are though they’ve improved quite a bit this year.

We started with some heavy standing calf work, then higher-rep seated calf work, then seated leg curls pyramiding up in weight.