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CSCS (Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist)
via NSCA,
B.A. Kinesiology - Occidental College

05/18/2025

Arrrr if you don’t train PowerBlock I’m coming to steal all your gains and loot your b***y for meself!

05/08/2025

Thanks for having me out in your sweet garage gym! Haven’t gotten to squat or barbell shoulder press this year! Was nice to get back to it, working on my asymmetries, bit by bit, not the heaviest work but not horrible for 5 sets of high reps and a guy rehabbing multiple injuries.
Also warms my heart to see still keeping up with the PBT program and more jacked than ever, beastly work for his first time doing BSS’s and don’t believe him, you can still do pull-ups. Also shout out for all your motor vehicle legal needs and more.

06/26/2024

Graphics are all from podcast big thanks to him and his team, check them out for science/evidence based information!
I added the captions to help make the information more digestible in layman’s terms and condense what I deemed most important from the 20+ minute podcast into an Instagram post, hopefully you all find this helpful and can live longer, happier, healthier lives! Go train and eat plants folks!

04/10/2024

BONE HEALTH - PT. 2 - Treatment & a Client Result
Osteoporosis and Diabetes (Adult Onset/Type II ONLY ofc) are full REVERSIBLE conditions! If you are diagnosed as having one of these diseases or their precursors, DO NOT LOSE HOPE. These are issues of lifestyle in almost every case. Meaning you can fix them yourself drug free! One example of which will be shown below and in the above slides.
I have to shout out the outstanding results of and all her hard work to earn them! Despite various challenges on the way, whether physical or mental, time constraints due to work, etc., not being able to perfectly adhere to the full PBT program (consisting of 3 roughly 1 hour long lifts per week), we still massively outperformed the vast majority of results for her demographic!
She was initially told by her doctor ~2 years ago that she had developed osteoporosis and her options were to go on bone loss drugs and/or begin learning to resistance train, preferably with a trainer for safety and efficacy. The problem I have with these bone loss drugs, particularly bisphosphonates (what her doc recommended), although I must disclaim first that I am not a doctor, just a CSCS with a Kinesiology degree and many years of experience who does his best to stay up to date on the most current research, is that they shut the entire bone upkeep system down. Despite being 10 years post menopause, I strongly advised her against taking the drugs, she agreed, and now we have proved it is never too late!
Older people respond worse yet still significantly improved, from never having weight lifted consistently and having a max of around ~70 lbs, to being able to deadlift 215 lbs at a BW of only 145 & age 63. That and her other lifting increasing dramatically over time (as documented on my profile) are the direct catalyst of her BMD increases.
If you want to reverse osteoporosis or prevent getting it in the future, the answer is simple… lift weights! Load bearing exercise + proper diet and supplementation = ⬆️ BMD!
You can reverse T2 Diabetes via RT and proper diet as well. If you regain a healthy BW, you can regain your Insulin sensitivity as well.

04/03/2024

BONE HEALTH - Important science everyone should know! Limited space here so scroll thru the full post for all the information!
As we age we go through changes, and past a certain point we begin to suffer from sarcopenia (essentially muscle cell/DNA decay) and bone loss. However, what’s not shown on this graph from the Journal of Anatomy & Physiology is that the curve can be shifted massively upward and/or have the decrease delayed by several years by a resistance training intervention (along with proper diet & rest).
At any age you can massively improve your muscle mass, and therefore bone density, for at least 5 years, although it is much greater in magnitude, ease, and rapidity the earlier you start! Also you will NEVER lose ALL the benefits you’ve gained via RT regardless of what happens.
How common is it for bone loss to be a serious problem? Well, in today’s society with many people living predominantly sedentary lifestyles, suffering from protein, calcium, and micronutrient deficiencies,
“It is estimated that the prevalence of osteoporosis rises from 1/3 in people at age 50–60 to more than 50% of people aged over 80 years.”
Affected people are much more likely to break bones and the consequences of that can be fatal. I cover more in the slides above^
“Healthy bone requires continuous remodeling which is pivotal for bone density maintenance. It is estimated that nearly 10% of the bone is updated by this process every year.”
Bone loss and osteoporosis are specifically of greater concern to women because, “At menopause the normal bone turnover cycle is impaired by estrogen deficiency.”
“The osteoclastic (bone) resorption activity increases while the osteoblastic (bone building) activity decreases. As a result, the amount of bone resorbed exceeds the amount deposited, which leads to a net loss of bone.”
“During the menopausal transition period, the average reduction in BMD is about 10%. Approximately half of women are losing bone even more rapidly, perhaps as much as 10%–20% in those 5–6 years around menopause.”
PMID: 29062981
Continued in the slides above 👆🏼 !

12/22/2023

So I showed evidence of ‘s strength improvements in my last post, well the beautiful thing about weightlifting is, as long as you’re not eating a compensatory amount of junk/excess calories, those strength increases can really translate to visual aesthetic improvements too! Matthew and I worked on his diet daily for the first month and he’s been pretty dialed in ever since!
As your strength and endurance improve simultaneously on the PBT program, you gradually burn more and more calories in each workout, while they don’t take you anymore time to complete due to the fact that the increase in expenditure is mediated by load increases, not duration or other variables. This CANNOT be replicated in any other form of unresisted exercise, as you train you become more efficient at that motor pattern, so if you want to burn more calories via cardio like running, you have to keep running further and longer, you can’t hope to continually burn more and more calories in the same amount of time. THIS is the “magic” of weight training.
Matthew was 175 lbs when we started, dropped to 170 within a couple months, and recently gained back to 175 lbs. It is fair to assume he gained at least 5 lbs of muscle, and quite probably more like 10 or more lbs! I claim this as he’s clearly been losing fat this whole time, eating healthy and consistently exercising way more than he used to! I’d wager, he lost around ~10 lbs or more of fat, and gained the same in muscle, in ~18 weeks. Pretty damn good! Keep up the great work brother, this is only the beginning! Much more to come!
We didn’t really get Matthew lifting heavy and pushing super hard in the workouts until much later into our PBT as he had to learn the form to everything first and adapt to the program!

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