THE BARBELL PRESCRIPTION JOURNAL

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....

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...

Continuing Education and News for the Athlete of Aging

OLDER POSTS

A note to our readers: We have recently reformatted our blog and are working on a new library system for the a huge backlog of content we've produced but never published here. So old and new blog posts are going up at an alarming rate. We'll slow down, eventually.