Mon 6/29: Last Heavy Bench Session
Tried to make today count with some good volume over 90%. Weight is down to 207.0 (lowest of the whole cycle) and in actuality I’m probably at 205-206. Holding just a bit of water. Strength took...
View ArticleLast Week of Training Before Meet
As of Tuesday 6/30 I finally made 205 lbs. That was the whole reason for doing the meet in the first place so I was happy that I finally saw that number. I was a little less happy about the effect...
View ArticleOfficially Reached 40 lbs of Fat Loss & Last Session
Bodyweight is currently 202. Since I started April 13 at 242, I’m officially down 40 lbs in 12 weeks. Meet is this Saturday so today was last training session. Just took out a few light singles on...
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Recap: My 42-pound Weight Loss & Competition Results
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly This is an audio recap of why and how I dropped 42-lbs off my frame in 12 weeks and then competed in a Power lifting meet. The mental and physical side of a hardcore...
View ArticleGot Guns? – 5 Tips for Bigger Arms
Don’t lie to yourself – you know you that filling out your T-shirt sleeves with a little more mass would be a cool side effect of your strength program. I know that most of my clients are not looking...
View ArticleClient Q&A #1: Bars, Belts, & Bodyweight
Last night, I was having an email exchange with one of my online coaching clients (Troy), and on top of a brief review of his numbers for the week, we also went over some general questions he had in...
View ArticleTraining on Imperfect Schedules (Part 1): Training Twice Per Week
One of the issues I deal with regularly, both here at the gym as well as with my online clients, are schedules that don’t necessarily allow for the perfect training routine. It’s funny how our bosses,...
View ArticleAlternating Rung Method
The manipulation of sets, reps, and weight increments is probably one of the most confusing and tedious aspects of effective programming for strength training. However, as I often tell my clients “the...
View ArticleTraining on Imperfect Schedules (Pt 2)
In Part 1 of this series we briefly went over a few training templates that work for people who can realistically only get in two full-fledged training sessions each week. For many of us 3 or 4 heavy...
View ArticleClient Q&A #2: Missed Workouts & Deloading for Old Guys
Over the course of the past several weeks I have had a couple of instances in which I thought the exchanges I have had with some of my clients might be instructive for all of us as it relates to our...
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Starting Strength Seminar – Back in Houston!
Mark Rippetoe addresses the crowd in the finer points of all things Barbell Training. Kingwood Strength & Conditioning is happy to be hosting the Starting Strength Seminar for our second year...
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Stronger & Leaner at age 45 (case study with video)
First off, big thank you to my client Mike Mclain for letting me share his results from his programming. Mike contacted me several months ago about designing a program for him that would accomplish 3...
View ArticleMy Blog Has Moved!!!!
If you are looking for updated content, articles, blog posts, and products please visit my new website at www.AndyBaker.com All of the blog articles currently on this site have been transferred to the...
View ArticleGreat Advice on Assistance Work
This past weekend I went to a local power lifting meet – strictly as a spectator, for the first time in many years. But the opportunity to watch James Strickland Bench Press 700 lbs Raw was something...
View ArticleBringing Up Your Bench Press (Frequency, Intensity, Volume, Exercise Selection)
Yes, yes, I know another “How to Bench Press More!” article. Add it to the thousands already floating around the internet in 2019 – some beneficial, many more are simply click bait. Hoping you’ll find...
View ArticleFrequency & The Power-Building Split
For those of you that follow my Power Building routine, or at least my writings on power building type training, you know that I’ve come to favor a 5-day training routine for my clients. Of course you...
View ArticlePause Squat vs Pin Squat vs Box Squat
As part of my power building program as well as my basic barbell program, at my gym and in my online coaching group I have my members do a lot of each of these movements as variations of the Squat. I...
View ArticleNew Product: The Basic Barbell Bundle (4 programs, 10% discount)
I wanted to give everyone a heads up that later this week I’ll be offering 4 of my most popular training programs as a bundle for a 10% discount. The Basic Barbell Bundle will include the following for...
View ArticleTraining OCD – channel it the RIGHT way
In the spirit of not being OCD I’m gonna try and keep this article about being OCD short and to the point. This topic can easily get me off on a rambling tangent so maybe that’s ADD and not...
View ArticleAn Easy Tricep Training Schedule
If you want your arms to grow you gotta train your triceps. If you want your Bench to move, you gotta train your triceps. It’s true that the triceps get tons of work through Benching, Overhead...
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