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Reader, Quick question: Are you still logging sessions, filming sets, and pushing hard... but the bar just isn't moving like it used to? Resets feel like Groundhog Day, tweaks keep popping up, or life (work, kids, travel) keeps throwing curveballs that kill your momentum. You're not alone, I've seen this exact pattern in dozens of guys who've run NLP (or tried to) and hit the intermediate wall. Right now, I'm offering a free personalized audit to the first wave who respond. What you get:
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Sam Krapf
Get weekly training tips, real-world coaching insights, and strength strategies that actually work — from a Starting Strength Coach who walks the walk.
Reader,Let's talk about Dan.Dan is 44, a father of three, and has been working with me for about eight months. He came in at 158 pounds with fused vertebrae in his back. Playing with his kids or throwing them around the house could leave him laid up for several days afterward if he wasn't careful We made the modifications he needed, found the Key Performance Lifts he could train effectively, and focused on steady progress over time. He’s now 171 pounds and considerably stronger. On a recent...
Reader, Details matters. Take the 5 Step Deadlift setup. Telling someone to "put the bar against the shins" sounds fine until you watch what they do with it. The bar ends up shoved forward or dragged back, their hips end up too low as they squat to it, and it ends up nowhere near where it belongs directly over the middle of the foot. Compare that to "the bar starts directly over the middle of the foot, about 1 inch from vertical shins." Now the lifter knows the exact spot to set up so the bar...
Reader, Stringing together week after week, month after month, year after year of consistent, effective, well executed training is where the magic happens. You do that long enough and you wake up one day annd weights that used to staple you to the floor are now just warm ups. You've mutated. I want to walk through what that actually looks like for a real client, because the timeline matters here. A guy in his 50s trained with me about 10 months on NLP and into intermediate programming,...