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Ever Upward and Onward: Training in the 10th Decade of Life
(Last week, we published the YouTube profile of Greysteel athlete John C. linked above. Here is a more detailed profile of this amazing...
Greysteel Channel #12 is Up!
Hey all, I just published our newest installment on the Greysteel Channel. This is not one of our produced videos, but rather the lecture...
Hypertension 1: The Silent Killer
From now on, whenever we post a new video on The Greysteel Channel, we'll also post it here, along with the script, for those of you who...
Standing Up to Acting Old: Ann B.
A senior citizen uses barbell training to reverse the life-limiting affects of weakness. For 4 years, Ann B., a 75-year-old retired...
Are You Too Strong?
Answer the question. Are you too strong? If you are like 99.9% of the population, your answer to this question will be "no." The other...
GS Channel #3: How We Age
Just returned from a brief but warm December sojourn in Arizona, back to the freezing tundra of Michigan, barely in time to publish our...
Fat Doom, Heart Health, and the Silly Season: An Update
It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Top of the list of crazies is the release of my new book with Andy Baker, The Barbell Prescription....
Your Prescription is Available for Pick-Up
Last week, more than three years of hard work came to fruition with the publication of my book, co-authored with Coach Andy Baker of...
Announcing The Greysteel Channel
Today, November 21, 2016, a date that will live in infamy, we officially began posting structured content to channel on YouTube:...
Planning for Catastrophe
Last week, we lost the peerless poet, songwriter, novelist, and performer Leonard Cohen. Aged 82, Cohen was battling cancer and looking...
Everybody Needs a Coach
About a year ago, I called up this guy I know, a Master's Athlete, very strong and knowledgeable about lifting, to discuss a few business...
The Prescription is a Program
Exercise is the most powerful medicine in the world. This is an extraordinary claim, but in 2016 I believe it is an entirely...
Pain =/= Broken
My friend and physician/coaching colleague Dr. Austin Baraki has recently made some wonderful contributions at the Starting Strength...
Easy Doesn't Work
After decades of dominance by aerobics and "cardio," strength has made a comeback. Even some doctors have begun to catch up with the...
I Take Iron for Back Pain
Strength Training is the the treatment of choice for chronic low back pain. Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC Back pain is ubiquitous...
Welcome to GreySteel
YOU CAN GET STRONGER! As we age, we lose fitness—power, stamina, flexibility, endurance, and balance. But the most important of all...