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SQUAT EVERY DAY
by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC We train these movements because they are the building blocks of human physical performance. We...
Barbell Training is the Fountain of Youth
Fitness after fifty is possible, and strength is the key. Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC As we age, we lose fitness—power, stamina,...
COVID-19 LOCKDOWN WORKOUT!
We're hunkered down, locked down, feeling down. Many of us work out in commercial gym spaces and suddenly we're without access to our...
New Video: Type 2 Diabetes, Part I
In the first part of our series on Type 2 Diabetes, Sully explains what it is, how it happens, and why it seems to be getting worse.
The Deadlift Prescription
Wherein Sully explains how the deadlift meets our exercise prescription and strength training criteria. The deadlift is powerful medicine.
SQUAT CAMP Q&A PART III
From the squat camp in Farmington Hills held by the Michigan Strength Conspiracy in May 2018. Coaches Kurisko and Sullivan discuss...
Video: I Take Iron for Back Pain
Greysteel Vlog: Sully talks about the recent StrengthCon, Triad Festival in Winchester Virginia, Back Pain, and when not to use heroin....
Ann and Carson Rock the USSF Fall Classic!
On October 28, 2017, at Kratos Strength and Conditioning in Evanston IL, Greysteel Athletes Ann and Carson competed in the US...
Eggs: Yes Have Some!
We posted our newest video, Greysteel #17, on YouTube last week, and it's been very well-received. In this video, Sully talks about the...
Volume and the Master
Recently I published an article on Starting Strength on the use of volume in strength programming for Masters. In this article, my...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...