The first 6-12 months of weightlifting are easy.

If you try to add weight every workout, and eat enough, you’ll build muscle and get stronger every week.

It’s hard not to make gains at this point. Your body isn’t used to this kind of stimulus, and you make rapid progress.

But, after that first year or so, it becomes harder and harder to gain muscleand strength.

Many people grind away at the same program they’ve done before, and they don’t get results. In this podcast, Mike Mathews of MuscleforLife.com is going to help you design a program that will allow you to force through plateaus.

You want to lose weight, and you know that dosing tons of cardio isn’t the best strategy.

Your diet is on point, but you’re not sure how to train. You don’t enjoy powerlifting or bodybuilding type workouts, and you don’t want to spend much time in the gym.

In this podcast, Nick Tumminello, strength coach and “trainer of trainers” talks about how to use different kinds of weight training, like as circuits, combinations, and complexes, to lose weight.

You’ll learn about the proper intensity, frequency, and volume of weightlifting for fat loss, and about how to break through plateaus. You’ll also learn how to maintain your interest in training while dieting, when it’s often hard to get stronger.

Want to become as strong as possible, without getting injured? Nick Shaw of Renaissance periodization breaks down the six principles of intelligent training for powerlifting. You'll learn how to structure your workouts, plan your training routine, take systematic breaks, and more, to get stronger.

Want to get bigger and stronger, without adding excess body fat? Nick Shaw of Renaissance Periodization shows you how to eat enough to get stronger, while staying lean. You'll learn how much, when, and what to eat to get stronger and leaner.

You want to get stronger, or maybe you want to learn a new sport.

And you want to do it without getting injured.

You may have heard that you should visualize your body performing the exercise correctly.

Or, you’re told to focus on holding parts of your body in certain positions, like “keep your back flat,” and “push your knees out.”

Those seem like good recommendations at first, but they aren’t necessarily the best ways to get stronger or learn an exercise.

Research has shown that you can learn exercises faster and get stronger using a different method. In this video, personal trainer Randy Gruezo and I talk about the best ways to learn a new movement, or get better at a sport you already know.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a powerlifter, bodybuilder, runner, swimmer, or trapeze artist, you’ll get something out of this video.