It’s easy to look at the conventional barbell deadlift and think it’s the weight room’s great equalizer. After all, it’s just a bar on the ground and everyone has to pull it from the same height, right? Uh, wrong. Once you’re up above 6 feet, especially 6-foot-4 and above like Canadian strength coach Lee …
In the gym, like elsewhere in life, being a tall and wide guy has advantages. But it also has…let’s not call them “disadvantages,” but rather, times “the norm” for smaller guys just won’t work for you. When that happens, you can either try to make your body bend to someone else’s rules—not recommended—or modify …
The only people who understand the unique struggles big, tall guys have to deal with when it comes to lifting weights, are big, tall guys. Leave it to the smaller crowd to say we’re not working hard enough, and that lifting weights is lifting weights. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The reason top […]
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]