Over the past year or so many of you have emailed me directly or messaged me asking how your warm-ups should go in preparation for a meet. I have responded to each individually but I wanted to do a blog post for the multitude of you who are competing … [Read more...]

Today is my four-year anniversary. Four years ago Megan I stood at the altar and said our vows to each other and then a month later would pack everything we owned (which was not very much of the time) and moved to Dallas. When I look out over the … [Read more...]

With many of the Power and Grace Weightlifters getting ready for a big National qualifying meet this weekend, I have gotten a couple emails and seen some comments about lifters getting antsy and feeling like they are not training hard enough or … [Read more...]

As many of you can see and know by now.  The Power and Grace Weightlifting followers are all gearing up for either a big competition Saturday or a big max day.  Jason had to hit his competition a bit early and hit it last weekend.  He has been … [Read more...]

With all of the regionals now complete and all the workouts having been watched multiple times I wanted to make a list of the top 10 things I learned from this years CrossFit regional events. Some of them are humorous some of them are 100% accurate … [Read more...]

Now that the fourth and final regional is complete (almost, NorCal might as well be over) there are some congratulations to give and a couple reminders for the programming moving forward.First of all, HUGE congrats to Backcountry Crossfit for their … [Read more...]

As Megan I get ready to make the move back to Georgia, one of the more difficult parts about moving is losing an incredible training environment. When I moved to Texas four years ago my lifting career wasn't half of what it is now. The lifting … [Read more...]

Many of you likely have never seen Ricky Redus before unless you follow the NPFL. This is because he has only been lifting for about a year. The video below shows him snatching 130kg from the blocks. Yep he has progressed quickly. Below is a … [Read more...]

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."(Romans 12:2 ESV)As a part of training, I often have athletes look … [Read more...]

As many of you have seen by now, myself, Mike Poppa, and Emily Carothers will be hosting multiple training camps over the course the year. At each camp there will also be one or more Regional/Games level athletes in attendance to help coach, answer … [Read more...]

Since the revealing of event one for the Regionals this year, the hang snatch has gotten a lot of attention and a lot of videos have been put out there about the lift. I wanted to take a second to talk about some the smaller nuances of maxing and … [Read more...]

It has been 24 hours since the conclusion of the South Central Regionals. I have managed to make it back home and I still think I'm going to be waking up from a dream sometime soon. I wanted to give a quick summary of the madness of events that … [Read more...]

I have no words. This picture says it all.For the past three weeks my theory has been that the top 3 at the end of day 2 will be the top 3 at the end of day 3. Jeff shut me up. I will be rolling out a full summary of the South Central Regional … [Read more...]

Day two in the books. Jeff stepped up to the plate big time today and made some moves to get into the final heat for day three. His performance on event four was exceptional and perfectly timed. He did have one random no rep on handstand push-ups but … [Read more...]

Regionals are a fickle thing. With the workouts this year it has been always a crapshoot to see who will excel at each specific event. In south-central that case is more true than ever.Power and Grace Performance has two athletes in the south-central … [Read more...]