This blog is an old one, but on my morning walk this morning there must have been a flavour in the air, or a sound that vibrated just right to bring my mind back to this moment from nearly five years ago. I often say that Kachalka, in Kyiv Ukraine, is my favourite gym in the world, and it is. However, to be clear, my favourite Lifting Temple is in Sapporo, Japan. Enjoy. The last 5 or 6 days were shit. I had the flu and had to travel from Osaka to Sapporo. Ugh, it was miserabl

I learned this one the hard way. When I first got into lifting weights at the age of seventeen, I wanted to get strong and I wanted to get big. Sound familiar? So, this lead to me lifting 5 sets of 5 reps for about 5 years. It is what dudes in magazines did so it must work. I got kind of strong and kind of big, but also spent about three of those years lifting the same weights. It wasn’t until after I learned about strength training through my education with Opex Fitness that

Lifting at Kachalka in Kyiv, Ukraine