Posts by Smitty

• Small Change to Bench Press More Weight – Save Your Shoulders!

  People love and hate the bench press.  The love it because they want a big chest and they think the bench is the end-all-be-all for helping them achieve it.  And they hate the bench because their shoulders are typically wrecked for days after a heavy...

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• Humanity

  I often see an old man standing outside of my local convenience store. His clothes well used and tattered and his face weathered from many hard years.  His hands gnarled and broken. He stands all day and rarely strays from his spot at the corner...

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• Why Do My Shoulders Hurt When I Bench?

  I get more emails about shoulder pain from bench pressing than any other type of question about strength training. In the new video, I show you one of my biggest ‘wins’ when trying to clean up someone’s bench press technique. It simply involves the lifter...

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• Best 3 Ways to Spot Up Dumbbells for the Bench Press

  I hate injuries. Trust me, I’ve had a TON of injuries over the years and they all suck. You don’t get to train the way you want and you have to change everything you do during the day just to get stuff done. When it...

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• Ask Joe DeFranco – Top 5 Strength Training Exercises

  We asked coaches and trainers on Facebook and Twitter what were their biggest questions about strength training and build muscle. We received a tons of responses so I asked Joe DeFranco to try and tackle each one. Here is the first installment.

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• 6 Things I Learned from WWE Superstar Triple H

  I met Triple H – Paul Levesque – last Sunday while he was training at DeFranco’s gym. He was getting ready to wrestle Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 29 and came in for the day to get a workout in with big Joe D. As many...

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