What is Powerlifting?
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What is Powerlifting?

Squat, bench press, and deadlift are the three lifts recognized in powerlifting. Often, powerlifting gets confused with Olympic weightlifting, where the two lifts recognized are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Both are barbell sports, but I’ll focus on powerlifting in this article.

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A Guide to a Successful Offseason
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A Guide to a Successful Offseason

It’s not a secret that you want to spend as much of your training career at maintenance or a slight surplus. Doing so is going to lead to a better environment for recovery and performance. The age old idea of “eat big to get big” is far from the truth though…let me explain.

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The Utility of Top Sets
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The Utility of Top Sets

Incorporating top sets into your training can not only be a way to keep yourself engaged with training, but also offer a ton of great benefits from an adaptation standpoint.

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No Days Off! Right?
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No Days Off! Right?

I get it you love to train and want to do so every day.

Don’t get me wrong I love to train as well, but I’m here to give you something to think about as to why you might not want to train every day and what training every day could look like.

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Meal Prep 101 - Tips and Tricks
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Meal Prep 101 - Tips and Tricks

As cliche as it sounds, if you fail to plan you’re planning to fail, this is very much the truth when it comes to nutrition.

I find that nutrition becomes much easier when you have food readily available to you. It doesn’t even have to be fancy meal prep like what you see on your favorite influencer’s page. It can be as simple as baking a couple of pounds of chicken to have for the week, having frozen broccoli in the freezer, and having pre-cooked rice in a plastic container.

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Hardgainer Survival Guide
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Hardgainer Survival Guide

Do you struggle to put down the calories necessary to be in a calorie surplus in order to add muscle mass?

If so I’ve compiled a list of some of my top tips to beat your appetite and get down the necessary calories you need, so you can go from skinny to jacked.

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No BS Guide to Recovery
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No BS Guide to Recovery

I want to make this an easy to digest blog post of what you can do starting today to begin to move the needle towards reaping all of the benefits you can from your training program. I will be focusing on the “big rocks” and less on the “little rocks” that will actually make a meaningful difference in your recovery.

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Why Just Perform Training?
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Why Just Perform Training?

Welcome to the first ever Just Perform Training blog post!

To get things started I would like to tell a more in depth version of my story and give context for the mission of Just Perform Training.

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