JT July 06, 2026 Is Lifting Enough Cardio? What The Research Actually Says About Resistance Training And Arterial Stiffness By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience The longevity conversation has swung hard toward resistance training over the last two years. Muscle mass as a longevity marker. Strength training as the most important intervention for aging well. Zone 2 as...
JT May 26, 2026 How to Monitor Your Recovery (Without Guessing) By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience (This is part 2 of a 3-part series on recovery and training. If you missed part 1, read it here . ) In the first post I made the case that cumulative stress, not just training, drives plateaus, injuries, and illness. Your nervous system has a budget. When you exceed it,...
JT May 18, 2026 Why You Got Stronger on Vacation (And What It Means for Your Training) By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience You come back from a week and a half in Cabo. No training. No routine. Margaritas for lunch. You walk into your first session expecting to feel like garbage. Instead, you hit a PR on pull-ups. Your squats feel lighter. Everything clicks. So what...
JT MARCH 5, 2026 The Only Equipment You Need to Build Strength at Home By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience You don't need a gym to build real strength. And you don't need thousands of dollars in equipment either. Here's my complete setup—everything I used for the last 11 years to train myself and coach clients—for under $400 total. The Starter Setup: $70 If you're just...
JT Feb. 27, 2026 Push-Ups vs. Bench Press: What 3 Studies and 747 People Tell Us About Building Muscle at Home By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience You don't need a barbell to build muscle. I know. That sounds like something a guy selling a bodyweight program would say. And yeah — I'm that guy. I'm Jerry Teixeira. I've been training for over 25 years. I won a BJJ gold medal...
JT Feb. 19, 2026 The Biggest Study on Muscle Growth Just Came Out. Here's What Actually Matters. By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience Gymnasts have been building elite strength and jaw dropping physiques for decades with gymnastics rings. A landmark paper just dropped—authored by some of the most respected researchers in exercise science, including Stu Phillips—and it's the...
JT Feb. 04, 2026 MED vs. MRV: The Two Terms That Determine Whether You Build Muscle or Burn Out By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience Two terms will make or break your training. Get them wrong and you're either spinning your wheels or heading straight for injury. Get them right and you can train for decades without burning out. Minimum Effective Dose (MED): The least amount...
JT Jan. 28, 2026 Strength Training Over 40: Your Mind Is the Limiting Factor By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience Me and my wife after my first BJJ comp at 45 years old. Your Biggest Advantage Isn't Your Program Most New Year's resolutions are dead by February. Gym memberships collect dust. Diets collapse. The "new you" quietly becomes the same you. Why? It's not the plan....
JT Jan. 26, 2026 Bodyweight Strength Over 40: The Surgical Path to Integrated Power By Jerry Teixeira | Nearly 30 Years of Strength Experience I disappeared for 18 months. Here's why—and why it matters for your training. The Backyard Lab My wife had major surgery. So I stepped away from social media, the YouTube channel, all of it. Family first. No regrets. She's fully recovered now. 100%. During...
JT June 26, 2021 Appropriate rest intervals between sets are a key factor in maximizing strength and hypertrophy adaptations to your training. When it comes to programming our resistance training, we tend to obsess over exercise selection, total number of sets, the number of reps per set, what weight to use, and whether or not we should go to failure. Of course, all of these are important...
