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KNEES IN THE SQUAT: HINGE!
by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC You have to bend your knees. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding about that. We talk all the...
THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES
by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC Pauses aren't fun, and they aren't cool, but they often work wonders. During Q&A and Livestreams...
STOP THE BAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SQUAT
by Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC Stopping the bar and switching from thataway in the groove to thisaway in the groove is not...
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,...
Athletes vs. The Word Police
Jonathon M. Sullivan MD, PhD, SSC, PBC If you train like an athlete, you're an athlete. Every now and then, somebody tries to take us to...
The Zeroth Rep (Don't Be a Dork!)
The Omega Rep is the process by which the bar is properly returned to the rack at the end of the set. Sully describes how the proper...
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.
Better Not Shout, Better Not Cry, You Better Just Squat, and I'm Tellin' You Why.
Holidays wreak havoc on training. Humbug. I've always found it interesting that one of the ways we celebrate our lives is by disrupting...
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...
THIS TOO SHALL PASS. SO KEEP TRAINING.
Training is hard. It's hard for everybody. It's hard for me, that's for sure. And sometimes, it's harder than usual. When the training...
YOU CAN DO THIS: TRAINING WITH PARKINSON'S
Greysteel Athlete Dan McEachin talks about his experience training with Parkinson's disease.
SQUAT CAMP Q&A PART I
From the squat camp in Farmington held by the Michigan Strength Conspiracy in May 2018. Coaches Kurisko and Sullivan discuss preparing...
HYPERTENSION #3: LIFESTYLE FACTORS
The Greysteel Channel has the third and final installment of our series on hypertension. As is always the case with medicine, there's...
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...
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...
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...