We are excited to welcome Pat Davidson to The Strength House to present his Rethinking the Big Patterns seminar! This two-day seminar will be held on Saturday, July 14 and Sunday, July 15. In this seminar, participants will be able to determine the primary stance and plane that activities ranging from warm-up to conditioning in […]
This week’s special guest is Julia Ladewski of EliteFTS. A powerlifter, phyisque competitor and former Division I strength coach, Julia shared all sorts of knowledge with us on topics including: Adjusting training goals as you get older Building confidence with female lifters as they prepare for competition How the sport of powerlifting has changed since […]
We’re excited to introduce our new Member Spotlight series, which will focus on various members of The Strength House who exemplify the core values of who we are and what we do! Our first installment features Chris, one of the first people to walk through our doors when we opened. Name: Chris Hometown: Natick, home of […]
Greg and Tony sit down to recap their most recent powerlifting meet and what they learned about: Training Recovery Mental preparation And much more! This week’s beers: Trillium “DDH Farnsworth Street” (Canton, MA) and Tree House “Haze” (Charlton, MA) Download Click here to download this podcast Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes Got questions or comments? […]
This week’s special guest is Mike Perry, owner and head coach at Skill of Strength in Chelmsford, MA. A fellow business owner and craft beer enthusiast, we chat with Mike about: Kettlebell training for strength athletes Energy system development for combat sports Lessons learned from Brazilian jiu-jitsu And much more! This week’s beer: Toppling Goliath “Pseudo […]
In this afternoon edition of The Strength House Podcast, we sit down over a single beer and answer a handful of listener-submitted questions, including: How to design a peaking program for powerlifters Using closed-loop and open-loop speed and agility drills for athletes In-season training considerations for baseball and softball players And much more! This week’s beer: […]
It’s the return of The Strength House Podcast with special guest Susan Sotir, a professor of exercise science at Springfield College in Massachusetts. We had Susan over to the gym to talk all things readiness and recovery, including: What wearable devices work best for tracking readiness How we track progress and evaluate an athlete’s day-to-day […]
Apart from being on healthy weight loss programs, progressive overload is the golden rule for getting bigger and stronger. You must do more work than you did before in order to keep making progress. There are two obvious ways to do this: Add weight to the bar Add volume (sets and reps). But there’s one […]
This week’s special guest is word-class powerlifter Joe Sullivan. As the fourth-ranked all-time lifter in the 220 pound class, Joe had some incredible insight on: Overcoming issues with confidence and self-esteem Getting mentally prepared to handle huge weights Grip issues with the deadlift And much more! This week’s beers: Perennial Artisan Ales “Abraxas” (St. Louis, MO) and […]
This week’s special guest is pro strongwoman and Boston-based trainer Brittany Diamond. We chat with Brittany about: How she went from a track athlete and rower to a strongwoman How she trains for strongwoman besides training the competition events The accessability of strength sports for women Taking selfies with Arnold Schwarzenegger This week’s beers: Frost Beer Works […]