The deadlift has a reputation for being "bad for your back," but the problem is almost never the movement itself. Here are my do's and don'ts for lifting heavy things safely.

Photo: Ambitious Studio* | Rick Barrett on Unsplash Look around any gym these days and almost every wrist has something on it: a smartwatch, a fitness band, a ring. It's not just my imagination, either. The American College of Sports Medicine's yearly survey of fitness professionals just named wearable technology the number one fitness trend for 2026 (you can read it here). The lead author put it well: the question is no longer whether people will use wearables, but how to us

One of the questions I hear most in the studio is some version of "Should I be doing more?" More sets, more days, more time in the gym. It's a fair question, and this fall a big new research review gave us a much clearer answer. Let me break it down for you in plain English. The Study The paper is The Resistance Training Dose Response: Meta-Regressions Exploring the Effects of Weekly Volume and Frequency on Muscle Hypertrophy and Strength Gains by Joshua Pelland and colleague

Fall is my favourite time of year in the gym. The patio season is over, the kids are back in school, and people are ready to get back into a routine. If you're getting back into training this month, I want to give you one simple tool that will make every rep count more: tempo. If you've ever trained with me, you've seen notes like "3010" next to a squat or a press, and maybe wondered what I was up to. Here's the short version, and how you can use it starting this week. What t

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