Bad genetics, no time to go to the gym, too old to lifts weights, etc. The list of excuses is quite frankly endless if excuses is what you’re looking for. One I haven’t talked about yet is “bad body type” – long arms, long legs, short torso. It’s very hard to come up with a list [...]
Donny Shankle is one of the elite lifters at California Strength where Glenn Pendlay MS coaches. Donny has used the 5×5 method (he was the first one to use the WFW method which is similar to Madcow) and is a National champion with a 172,5kg Snatch (that’s an American Record) and a 462lb clean & jerk. [...]
Yesterday I turned 30. It’s now been 15 years since I started my journey after losing at armwrestling to all my friends (and a girl … who could do Push-ups while I couldn’t do 1 rep), and more than 11y since I’ve started doing Squats. Looking back, it took me way too long to reach [...]
Here are this week’s facebook updates. If you don’t belong to the StrongLifts Facebook Fan page yet, I urge you to join by clicking here to gain access to exclusive content not on this blog and you can ask questions and get advice from other SL Fans. Here are just some of the things you missed this week… [...]
Note by Mehdi: This is guestpost by StrongLifts Member Crone (20, Netherlands) ### In a lot of the articles and success stories you can read that SL-Members find this community of self-improving people to be so motivating and refreshing. Although I couldn’t agree more, I keep thinking what a waste it is that there is [...]
Showing up. Granted, Woody Allen is a bit of a weirdo, but he’s funny as hell and I like his movies. The guy is also a Machine: he has released a movie every single year for over 20 years. Even now that’s he’s past 75y he continues to. I say respect. Now I don’t know [...]
