A Black Iron Testimonial
I approached Chris a couple months ago inquiring if I could write a little piece on my experience with the Black Iron Training gym, and the Starting Strength program. If anyone caught in that first sentence, I said "a couple months ago", with no intentions of it taking me this long to write my story. You see, I have known Chris and had a basic understanding of what Starting Strength was because he began coaching my son when he was 13 on some of the basics to help him with bec
Maybe You Just Need to Get Stronger
A while back I did a social media post with the picture that you see above. The post asked a simple question, "what if I told you that you just need to get strong?' I am not a Matrix guy or anything, but I always chuckled at some of those memes with Laurence Fishburne. Some of them have been pretty good. And you have to have a little bit of respect for the guy who played Furious. So yeah, I got a lot of positive feedback from that post. It was definitely one of my more popula
An Update on Super-STAR-ya
I wrote an article about Arya a little over six months ago. She has been one of my more dedicated trainees since beginning her journey with the barbell. Arya was the girl who fell down several times on her first day at the gym. Part of it had to do with her being a little uncoordinated and some of it could be linked to her lack of physical strength as a beginner. The story goes that she went from falling down a bunch of times to running a damn good linear progression and gett
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