Powerlifting Made Simple

Nothing lived is wasted. In the final act of our trilogy, we meet George, a man of many roles and experiences. This conversation delves into the depths of a soul seeking a different kind of strength. From our first meeting at Juggernaut to George's journeys through war, faith, and art, we follow the threads that lead him to explore the true nature of strength and conscience. This episode is about...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The American Scholar.” Speech delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, 1837. AmericanLiterature.com . https://americanliterature.com/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/essay/the-american-scholar

"People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them" (Emerson, 1841) If you already know that you want to improve as a powerlifter, schedule a consultation for Online Powerlifting Coaching here . If you want to grow your squat, bench press, and deadlift as quickly as possible and with the most support possible, schedule a consultation for the Powerlifting Accel...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Circles.” Essays: First Series , 1841. Virginia Commonwealth University, English Department Archive.

There comes a point in every training life when doing everything “right” stops feeling true. The numbers still add up. The program still works. The cues still sound smart. And yet—something in you hesitates. This episode lives in that hesitation. Following the conversation with Jacob Tsypkin, Episode 15 turns inward to explore what self-reliance actually looks like for an athlete learning to think...

This episode continues the arc that began with Keith — but turns its gaze outward. If Keith represented the return to Self, this conversation with Jacob lives in the tension that follows: How do you remain in relationship with yourself while embedded in community, systems, and culture ? Jacob was one of the earliest coaches in my life who didn’t just teach technique — he questioned the frame itsel...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Self-Reliance.” Essays: First Series , 1841. Virginia Commonwealth University, English Department Archive.

This episode represents the moment where the conversation on strength steps beyond programming and performance and into the deeper, quieter terrain of identity. We tend to speak about burnout as a malfunction, a sign that something has gone wrong. But what if burnout is something older? What if it’s an initiation — the moment the flame you’ve been tending finally melts the shape that can no longer...

This episode marks a turning in the season — the moment where the journey of strength steps out of the gym and into the woods, into the quiet, into the part of becoming that cannot be coached by numbers or technique. Keith was my first real mentor in strength sports, long before either of us had words for what we were chasing. Back then, we were both inside the machinery of performance culture — J...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple , we walk the map backward. All the dragons, embers, and sovereignty talk? We translate it into chalk dust and bar path. The thesis: powerlifting is critical thinking practiced with your body. Every rep is an inquiry; every pause is a hypothesis; every recovery is revision. We connect the inner language of presence, devotion, and belonging to what you ac...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple , we explore the quiet emergence of momentum — not the explosive kind, but the steady warmth that lingers after healing. No grand return. No visible triumph. Just a morning where the flame is still there — unforced, alive, and quietly enduring. Where Episode 8 traced the return to embodiment, this episode turns toward continuity : the way devotion become...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple , we explore what follows rupture — not restoration, but re-inhabiting. This is the quiet phase of healing that doesn’t look like progress from the outside: no new PRs, no dramatic comebacks. Just a softening. A return from vigilance to presence. Where Episode 7 traced injury as initiation, this episode lingers in the aftermath — the moment when the body...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple, we explore injury not as derailment, but as initiation — the passage from “proving strength” to becoming someone who can remain whole while rebuilding . Through two major injuries — first to identity, then to the body — we examine what it means to stay in relationship with ourselves through pain rather than abandoning ourselves in it. This is the turnin...

"We have been put into life as into the element we most accord with, and we have, moreover, through thousands of years of adaptation, come to resemble this life so greatly that when we hold still, through a fortunate mimicry we can hardly be differentiated from everything around us. We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are ou...

In this hands-on episode of Powerlifting Made Simple, we move from philosophy to practice. After learning to give yourself permission to fail, building your vessel of safety, receiving your compass of position and balance, and understanding how to live the questions—now it's time to actually train. I walk you through your first real training session step-by-step, from the moment you enter the gym...

"You are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue. Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living ev...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple, we receive what Joseph Campbell called "supernatural aid"—the gift that makes the hero's journey possible. But instead of a complicated manual with hundreds of cues, you're getting something elegantly simple: two fundamental filters that organize all of powerlifting technique. I introduce position and balance as the only two concepts you need to underst...

In this episode of Powerlifting Made Simple, we explore what it means to cross the threshold into powerlifting safely—and how to build a vessel that can carry you through the inevitable challenges ahead. Drawing on Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for self-reliance, and years of coaching experience, I address the dangers that exist in strength sports culture and how to...

In this premiere episode of Powerlifting Made Simple, we explore why giving ourselves permission to fail is the foundation of all strength progress. Drawing from years of coaching experience, I reveal how our fear of looking weak—not lack of knowledge or effort—becomes the biggest barrier to breaking through plateaus. We’ll discover why experienced lifters often struggle more than beginners, how o...