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Why Heavy Weights Belong in Your Conditioning
Walk into most gyms and conditioning looks the same: light dumbbells, high reps, burpees until the room spins. Ask why the weights are light and you'll get the same answer every time — "it's cardio, you're supposed to keep moving." Here's the problem: if your conditioning never touches meaningful load, you're building an engine inside a body that can't apply it. And if you're chasing total output — more work done, faster, for longer — leaving heavy weights out of your conditi

lukehiggins7
Jun 64 min read


Why Lifting Lighter, Faster, Builds a Bigger Deadlift
Here's something that confuses a lot of lifters the first time they hear it: one of the best ways to make 200kg feel easier is to spend serious time pulling 140kg — as fast as you physically can. Not grinding it. Not adding reps. Moving a weight you could lift ten times like it's trying to escape through the ceiling. Strength coaches have used this for decades — you'll hear it called speed work, dynamic effort, or compensatory acceleration — and it's one of the most underused

lukehiggins7
Jun 64 min read


Everyone's a Coach Now: The Real State of Fitness Coaching in 2026
Scroll for thirty seconds and you'll find them. The 22-year-old with six months of training experience selling "elite transformation programs." The influencer whose whole qualification is good lighting and better genetics. The AI-generated meal plan dressed up as coaching. The fitness coaching market isn't just busy anymore — it's saturated, and it's worth talking honestly about what that means if you're the person trying to buy coaching. The numbers behind the noise Industry

lukehiggins7
Jun 63 min read
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