While some of you may recall and others may not, “Inspire some Intimidate the Rest” use to be our slogan for NBS Fitness. Now, I could see how having this as your business slogan could lead one to believe that we are in fact an intimidating gym full of intimidating meat heads. However, that being...Read More

Last week, we wrapped up our contest schedule with a sold-out RPS Powerlifting meet, The Memphis Classic.  This marks the seventh meet I have been able to help host at NBS and about the 15th I have helped promote and host over the years.  If you add in the strongman meets and push pulls, I...Read More

  I competed this past weekend in my 6th powerlifting competition. I’ve been training for powerlifting for about 2 years and 8 months now, and I was just able to reach elite status for the 198lb weight class in the Revolution Powerlifting Syndicate (RPS) federation (raw modern). It felt really great to finally hit a...Read More

On The Road Again It’ been a busy month for Steve and I. Since we are empty nesters it’s a bit easier to get away, however we have jobs and fur babies so we greatly appreciate the help we had so our getaways were successful and joyful! Up Up and Away At 70 years old,...Read More

A little insight into the barriers I worked on during this meet, you may be surprised what they were, it was not the weight. https://www.elitefts.com/training-logs/nbs-king-of-spring-prep-meet/Read More

Last Saturday, September 16th, myself and a group of NBSers went up to Lebanon, TN to take on a Tough Mudder. For those not familiar with the Tough Mudder event series it is a 10 mile obstacle course with 20 obstacles spread throughout the course. Obstacles including crawling through mud under barbed wire, sliding down...Read More

Building Callouses Despite what you may have heard, callouses on our hands are actually a good thing. Large callouses however, are not. Let’s start by defining what a callous actually is. Callous –showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.  Oh, ok, not that kind. Callouses are quite simply just a hardened or...Read More

  Pull out your  boots, metal studded leather jacket, and tame your mange. It’s time for another riff of the week. This weeks riff is actually something that I’ve learned just recently. It’s from another one of my top 5 favorite bands and although this song was one of their hits, I tend to be...Read More

I blame Kevin Costner. He made it seem cool to steal from people when he played Robin Hood in the Prince of Thieves movie. In that time period, if you were wealthy it was because you were born into wealth. Unfortunately that same mindset has made it’s way into modern times. While financial success does...Read More

NBS Anniversary Labor Day was my one year anniversary with NBS Fitness.  I knew coming into this hard driving powerlifting/strongman community there would be a few high brows. I recall one of the very first questions I posed to David during our first discussion of combining the communities. “Let’s be serious, David, powerlifters hate CrossFitters,...Read More

We discussed rucking on episode 3 of the Iron and Lead Podcast very briefly, and since then I have had quite a few questions on rucking.  While I have had the benefit of working with hundreds of military/LEO/big dudes for the last few years, I do think rucking can be an enjoyable (*gasp*) activity for...Read More

Mid-South Spine and Sports Performance is happy to announce that we have successfully launched our first newsletter this month! Here at Mid-South Spine and Sports Performance, we believe that one of the most important factors in successful care of our patients is providing education. We are not interested in band-aid care or care that is...Read More

How Did This Happen Since the introduction, we have had plenty of examples of ways to ruin a gym. Let me remind you that these scenarios listed are things we would kind of like to NOT see when coming into the gym, just to be clear. We are going take a look at equipment that...Read More

Every one of us at some point in time has walked into their work place and just looked and said, “what in the actual F***?”. Whether it be in your current job, or past job, some job you have been in this has happened. Some of the scenarios you literally have to think about all...Read More

We were recently nominated for Memphis Best Health Club by the Commercial Appeal and we ended up making it into the top 3 nominees which got us the invitation to The Memphis Most Banquet last Wednesday night. It was a honor to be a part of the event and to know that we were able...Read More

This book was recommended to me months ago. It sat on my reading cue for quite a bit, until a long flight without wifi gave me nothing but time to dive right in.  As I have touched on before, I typically have a rotation in subject matter when it comes to books that I read:...Read More

What is failure? Failure is inevitable. Failure is life. Show me someone who doesn’t have a bag full of failures that they can pull from and I will show you someone who hasn’t done anything worth a damn. Failure is an opportunity to learn from your mistakes, to do it better the next time. Failing...Read More

At first I wasn’t sure if I should post about this but I figured people would find it informative and possibly a bit entertaining (I thought it was hilarious when I first found out). The funny thing about the fitness industry is that it really is the only health related field that is completely unregulated....Read More

YOUR POSITIONING SUCKS My poverty bench is so comical it could have its own stand up show and make a killing. Seriously, it would sell out the FedEx Forum. My current goal is to hit a (measly) 400lbs bench on the platform. Over a year ago I completely changed my bench setup and stance, which...Read More