Old School Strength & Conditioning

09/06/2026

At Old School, you come in and do YOUR program that is built for you. All of the training is individualized to your goals, ability levels, and health concerns.

09/05/2026

145 x 10 for Allie Peterson. Awesome job!

09/04/2026

Congrats to Justin Derner for reaching his goal. So far since training at Old School he has lost 118 lbs and 81 inches. He has lost 17 inches off his waist alone. Awesome job Justin!

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

Stop trying to "confuse" your muscles.
Muscles don't grow from randomness.
They grow from repeating the same movements, getting stronger at them, and progressing over time. "Muscle confusion" is a myth.

09/03/2026

250 x 5 for Lisa Schomaker. Awesome job!

09/02/2026

75 x 2 for Mallory. Awesome job!

09/02/2026

Are you training or are you working out?

As Yuri Verkhoshansky said
"Any idiot can make another idiot tired."

If fatigue is the only way you measure success of your training, you're not training. Training is an organized effort to get faster, stronger and more explosive. Doing random stuff to get tired is working out. l still come across people who think fatigue or soreness are the best indicators of quality training. Working to just get tired is ignoring the entire point of training: selecting goals and working towards them in an organized and planned fashion. If your only goal is fatigue, you're missing out. Some of the best maximal strength and speed training requires a lot standing around and resting.

09/02/2026

High reps equals light weight? Low reps equals heavy weight? What is heavy? What is light? What is “heavy” or “hard” for one person may be “light” or “easy” for another and vice versa. Both are meaningless terms without the appropriate context. Both don’t give the whole picture. It's really more about choosing a rep range and picking the max amount of weight you can use in that rep range. The last rep should be a challenge regardless of the rep range. Ideally you should be within a rep or two of muscular failure. Train with high reps, medium reps, low reps or a combination. But training hard is the key. Your body does not improve from doing the same thing. Same exercises with the same weight. It improves from increasing the demand over time. That is called progressive overload and it is one of the most important concepts in all of training. No half way decent program will ever have you doing less weight and less overall work over time.