Once the damage has stopped and the danger past, pain confers no benefit, no honor, no reward. Put pain in its place so you can get back to your training

Our age of peace, plenty, and leisure, has ushered in a horrific form of unhealthy aging that I call the Sick Aging Phenotype: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, frailty, and loss of independence. This is a horrible way to get old.

Long-term prognosis for the athlete is excellent overall, and hernia repair does not contraindicate any of the major compound barbell movements or any particular level of loading.

Watch our complete series on the causes, medical management, and lifestyle approaches to Type II Diabetes.

Check out our video series on hypertension and the Athlete of Aging.

Two papers by Jacobsen et al on the topic of strength training after knee replacement. Does it improve outcome?

Adults with COPD need strength training for all the reasons everybody else needs it--only more so.

Have you heard? THEY are telling us that lifting weights under Valsalva isn’t just unsafe, it may soon be illegal.

An introduction to arthritis and tendinopathy in the second part of the Starting Strength Coaches Association Science panel presentation.

2018 Starting Strength Coaches Association Conference science panel discussion.

Bone loss is one of the horrors of growing older. But we have an effective medicine for prevention, management, and reversal: The Barbell Prescription.

Most of the reasons you have for not training are actually your best reasons to START training.