The blog
The questions I get asked most, answered properly. No hacks, no quick fixes.
A downloaded plan is a guess about an average person, frozen the day it was written. A coach is the opposite: a standard you will not hold alone, a program I build around your week, and someone watching closely enough to change it.
Standards/30 September 2026
A ski day drains the strength of your thighs and the loss is still there the next morning. Six weeks of single-leg work raises where that day starts. Add an aerobic base. Two sessions a week, no barbell, and no becoming a lifter.
Ski season/22 September 2026
Strength and the speed you produce it with are both trainable well past seventy. What the research has measured on chair rises, walking speed and stair climbing power, why getting off the floor is a different task from getting out of a chair, and what I put in a training week because of it.
Independence/17 September 2026
Building muscle takes years, and the real cost shows up in your time and your food. In the pooled trials, resistance training added about a kilogram and a half of whole-body muscle mass in healthy adult men, over about ten weeks.
Muscle/11 September 2026
Lifting will not stunt your kid's growth, and the research does not back the fear about their growth plates, whatever you have heard. What the science says about strength training safety, and what a smart start looks like for a young athlete.
Young Athletes/8 September 2026
The best fat-loss plan is the one you can live with. What gets you leaner and keeps you there, without wrecking your weekends, is unglamorous: food first, a deficit slow enough to keep your muscle, enough protein, and real sleep.
Body Composition/7 September 2026
Running is where the finishing order gets set, and in the published simulation the longest of the eight runs came in the middle of the race. Most racers rehearse the station they are worst at and give the time back on the kilometers in between.
Racing/1 September 2026
Downhill under a loaded pack is where the muscle damage comes from, not the climb. What a descent costs your legs, and what to train before Colorado's archery season opens 2 September.
Backcountry/28 August 2026
