Middle Aged Muscles

Tag: Squats

  • Killer Birthday Workout for my 40th!!!

    I’ve always thought the idea of doing a special “birthday workout” yearly is a bit of a meme, but every year there I am thinking “I need to figure out what to do for my birthday”… This year was no different, and to top it off I’m turning 40 which is a milestone and even…

  • “Extra Workouts”: Who, What, When and Why

    “Extra Workouts”: Who, What, When and Why

    Ok, there really isn’t a who involved in this, I guess the who is you the reader, but the other “W’s” are relevant to this discussion and are frequently asked questions on the topic so they will be the focus of today’s post. What is an “Extra” workout? An extra workout is any workout at…

  • Admitting Your Mistakes: Where I was screwing up my low bar squat

    When I started this blog I promised myself I was going to write about the good and the bad. The internet is filled with people that are willing to rush and out talk about it every time they have a good day or break a PR, there are very few people who are completely transparent…

  • Conjugate: How I Westside on the East Coast, DE Lower

    Starting with the same disclaimer from my previous posts in this series. I do not compete as a powerlifter, I have competed as a strongman in the past and MAY do a powerlifting competition in the future. Still, I use my version of Westside template as I enjoy it and I think it is easy…

  • Conjugate, How I Westside on the East Coast: My ME Lower Day

    Starting with this, I’m not a competitive powerlifter, but I work out like one. I’ve competed as a strongman and am not ruling out doing a powerlifting meet one day. Westside is a great powerlifting program which can be adapted to anything strength related. I ran a version of it when I trained for strongman…