The Powerlifting Technique Newsletter

Dec 22, 2025

Hyperextensions Hurt? Here’s What To Do Instead

Swap painful back extensions for smarter posterior chain work that still builds a strong pull.

Deadlift

Dec 18, 2025

The 15 Best Deadlift Alternatives For Strength

Hinge variations that actually carry over to your squat and pull.

Dec 29, 2025

What's the best lower back workout routine?

This routine can be a full workout or include these movements within a lower body day. This starts with the heavy lifts for strength, then moves into stability and endurance lifts.

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Deadlift

Dec 15, 2025

Build a Faster Deadlift With Bands

Banded deadlifts add tension where your pull is weakest, forcing you to accelerate the bar and clean up a lazy lockout without changing your whole program.

Dec 11, 2025

How Advanced Lifters Sneak In More Heavy Reps

Cluster sets let you live in heavy percentages longer without turning every rep into a grinder.

Featured

Oct 30, 2025

Avoid Red Lights: How to Pass Every Deadlift Attempt

Many lifters lose competition deadlifts not because of strength, but because they miss key rule details that lead to red lights.

16 Essential Leg Day Workouts for Strength and Size

Exercises

Sep 15, 2025

16 Essential Leg Day Workouts for Strength and Size

Leg day is brutal, but with the right 16 workouts you can build serious strength, size, and power.

Exercises

Aug 18, 2025

Build Bigger Triceps With These Lateral Head Exercises

Unlock the exercises that target the lateral head for stronger, fuller triceps.

Why farmer’s walks & bent-arm shrugs belong in every powerlifter’s plan

Deadlift

Jul 29, 2025

Why farmer’s walks & bent-arm shrugs belong in every powerlifter’s plan

Build a back that supports real strength under heavy weight during trap day.

How to Build a Vise-Like Core and Crushing Grip Strength

Deadlift

Jul 11, 2025

How to Build a Vise-Like Core and Crushing Grip Strength

The unique elbow-crook position forces the core and grip tension your program is missing.

Deadlift

Jun 13, 2025

Deadlift Not Feeling Right? Check Your Hips

A subtle hip shift during deadlifts can throw off your form and progress. Here’s how to spot it and fix it.

Bench Press

Apr 15, 2025

The Overhead Press–Bench Press Connection

Can overhead pressing help your bench press? Short answer: yes, but only if you do it right. Here’s how to use OHP to build real carryover.

Feb 4, 2025

The Boxer’s Muscle

Training for balance + T-bar row guide

What's the best lower back workout routine?

This routine can be a full workout or include these movements within a lower body day. This starts with the heavy lifts for strength, then moves into stability and endurance lifts.

Dec 22, 2025

Hyperextensions Hurt? Here’s What To Do Instead

Swap painful back extensions for smarter posterior chain work that still builds a strong pull.

Deadlift

Dec 18, 2025

The 15 Best Deadlift Alternatives For Strength

Hinge variations that actually carry over to your squat and pull.

Deadlift

Dec 15, 2025

Build a Faster Deadlift With Bands

Banded deadlifts add tension where your pull is weakest, forcing you to accelerate the bar and clean up a lazy lockout without changing your whole program.

Dec 11, 2025

How Advanced Lifters Sneak In More Heavy Reps

Cluster sets let you live in heavy percentages longer without turning every rep into a grinder.

Nov 28, 2025

The 10 Minute Shoulder Warm Up For Bigger, Safer Pressing

A good shoulder warm up is a sequence that wakes up your scapula, serratus, and pressing muscles in order.

Deadlift

Nov 25, 2025

Fix Your Deadlift From The Floor To Lockout

Most deadlift problems follow patterns you can fix once you know where the lift breaks down.

Build pressing strength with the military press

Exercises

Nov 20, 2025

Build pressing strength with the military press

The military press builds pure overhead strength for powerlifters by training tight setup, strict bar path, and full-body tension.

Hyperextensions Hurt? Here’s What To Do Instead

The 15 Best Deadlift Alternatives For Strength

What's the best lower back workout routine?

Get all the latest news delivered straight to your inbox

Build a Faster Deadlift With Bands

How Advanced Lifters Sneak In More Heavy Reps

Featured

Avoid Red Lights: How to Pass Every Deadlift Attempt

16 Essential Leg Day Workouts for Strength and Size

Build Bigger Triceps With These Lateral Head Exercises

Why farmer’s walks & bent-arm shrugs belong in every powerlifter’s plan

How to Build a Vise-Like Core and Crushing Grip Strength

Deadlift Not Feeling Right? Check Your Hips

The Overhead Press–Bench Press Connection

The Boxer’s Muscle

Archive

What's the best lower back workout routine?

Hyperextensions Hurt? Here’s What To Do Instead

The 15 Best Deadlift Alternatives For Strength

Build a Faster Deadlift With Bands

How Advanced Lifters Sneak In More Heavy Reps

The 10 Minute Shoulder Warm Up For Bigger, Safer Pressing

Fix Your Deadlift From The Floor To Lockout

Build pressing strength with the military press

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