Josh Perkins

About to embark on your first steps into powerlifting? Whether novice competition or introducing strength training in your exercise routine?

You've just finished your first competition after pouring 12-16 weeks of their hardest training effort into it, and now the big day is done.

Powerlifting is an amazing sport because of its accessibility! It opens its doors to almost anyone and everyone, with representation across a broad mix of gendered & transgendered athletes, representation in the special Olympics and across nearly every nation on the planet.

There are a lot of things that you can be doing to make your lifting career a lot more enjoyable especially if you are only just starting out.

When we cue the chin to drive forward and down in the thrust we are really creating a big misunderstanding of what is really happening.

The truth is that working with weights can be challenging and often harsh - many people aren’t ready to hear that it will likely take a significant investment of time to get strong.

Let us now look to finish by taking a look at the role of shoulder flexion & global movement.

Diving deeper into why many ideas around effective bench pressing are miscommunicated

From the surface view the bench press can seem to be a fairly primitive movement.