Power Rack Strength https://www.powerrackstrength.com/ Cutting Edge Strength Training & Athletic Resilience Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:18:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 Nate Ball: Strength, Addiction, Faith, and the Long Road Back https://www.powerrackstrength.com/nate-ball-strength-addiction-faith-and-the-long-road-back/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:30:20 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=43946 When people look at Nate Ball today, they see a strong guy in his 50s, a successful business owner, a husband, father, grandfather, powerlifter, and strongman. What they probably don't see is everything it took for him to still be standing here.

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]]> Jett Jackson Series Part 4: How We Peaked a 17-Year-Old for USA Nationals in Six Weeks https://www.powerrackstrength.com/jett-jackson-series-part-4-how-we-peaked-a-17-year-old-for-usa-nationals-in-six-weeks/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:30:07 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=43931 Coming out of Part 3, Jett had already made significant progress. He was sitting right around 220 pounds, had filled out through his shoulders, traps, glutes, and legs, and was doing about 85% of the core work I had assigned him. For a 17-year-old, I will take that.

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]]> From My First Online Client to a Lifelong Friend: Training, Injuries and 18 Years With Zane Geeting https://www.powerrackstrength.com/from-my-first-online-client-to-a-lifelong-friend-training-injuries-and-18-years-with-zane-geeting/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:30:57 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=43914 Zane Geeting and I go all the way back to around 2008, and he holds a pretty unique place in my coaching history. He was essentially my first online client. This was before online coaching became what it is today, and at the time, I was still experimenting with a lot of the principles that would eventually become part of how I coach and program today.

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]]> Jett Jackson Part 3: Surviving 10 Weeks of Competition and Peaking For Nationals https://www.powerrackstrength.com/jett-jackson-part-3-surviving-10-weeks-of-competition-and-peaking-for-nationals/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:30:59 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=43903 When I started working with Jett Jackson last August, the goal was to build capacity, attack weak points, improve how he moved, and give him a foundation that could actually support the strength he was developing.

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]]> The Environment That Changed Byrd’s Life https://www.powerrackstrength.com/the-environment-that-changed-byrds-life/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:30:22 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=43871 I recently sat down with my longtime friend and former training partner, Byrd, to revisit how he went from playing high-level football to becoming one of the strongest powerlifters of his era. We covered plenty of old stories, injuries, questionable decisions and the general chaos that came with powerlifting during that time, but one part of the conversation stood out.

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