We must sound like a broken record at this point, skipping CD or, for the Gen Z’ers out there, a tune being played on repeat over a streaming app, but we can’t help it that we’re great at creating champions in all walks of sport (and life for that matter). Over the last 10 years we have trained athletes that have dominated in various, different sports: athletes that have competed at the world level in...

Is it even possible to gain strength and lose weight at the same time? We hear it all the time from athletes walking in the door, “I want to gain strength but I really need to lose some weight in the process.” This question is all encompassing. The question is asked by everybody. People from the age of 50+ all the way down to athletes trying to remake the olympics...

Over the years, we here at Garage Strength have been asked ad nauseum, “How can I bulk properly? How can I have a healthy bulk?” We are very well versed at how to bulk. Garage Strength has a lot of husky athletes at the gym that are throwers, linemen and just people trying to be big and strong...

Fitness enthusiasts and sports performance athletes love to look for that next magical pill. They scour the internet, fitness magazines and paper based publications for some secret to quick gainz, six pack abs and the strength to make Hercules, Atlas and Chronos look like small potatoes when squatting, deadlifting, cleaning or benching. They’re like addicts looking for that next quick fix. We hear the chorus now, “What can we do to get to that next level?” ...

Having to make weight for sporting events is always accompanied by anxiety and a sprinkle of stress. Power based athletes that train for sports like powerlifting, wrestling and olympic weightlifting know the feeling. The athletes’ coaches need to be able to assist, offer sage advice and create a plan for cuts, maintenance and all the finer cuisine choices of micronutrients that get digested...

Who hasn’t heard a horror story of a wrestler cutting weight? The stories come across as part demonic possession mixed with zombie slithering. Wrestlers projectile vomiting prior to crawling across the floor to stand on the scale, eyes glazed as if in death throes, all to make weight for the match. High school coaches, children’s own parents even, force their kids to run around in trash bags, covered in sweats, while in a sauna, only to chastise the athlete’s poor performance on the mat...

As some may have noticed, I have lost over 60lbs over the last two years. I struggled with my health for a while after being infected with Lyme Disease. I was fat, felt like shit and had little to no energy. I decided to start playing around with 4-5 different “diets.” What I have learned is that almost every diet works to an extent, as long as there is some mode of accountability...