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A Shout Out to @thisisdaver Dave started trainin A Shout Out to @thisisdaver Dave started training with me in January this year with a simple goal: improve his health and build a stronger future. When I asked him why he wanted to start, his answer was simple: “I’m just trying not to die.” Six months later, he’s built a habit of training three times a week and the results speak for themselves. As part of a structured strength and conditioning program, his squat is up 60kg, his bench press is up 40kg, and his deadlift is up 60kg. Those numbers are impressive, but they’re not the thing I’m most proud of. The real win is the person he’s become along the way. Dave walks everywhere now. He’s constantly telling me how quickly he’s getting around town and how much easier everyday life feels. He’s more confident, more capable, and willing to take on challenges that probably seemed a long way off six months ago. None of this happened because he found a secret program or a magic exercise. It happened because he made the decision to change and then backed that decision up with consistent effort, week after week. One thing that’s always stuck with me is that a big reason Dave started this journey was seeing his dad, now in his seventies, still physically capable and active. That’s a powerful reminder that strength isn’t just about today. It’s an investment in the decades ahead. Dave won’t thank me for saying this, but I don’t reckon it’ll be too long before we see him lining up for a running event. Mate, you’ve earned every bit of progress you’ve made. I’m proud of what you’ve achieved and excited to see what comes next. 🌐 If you’d like to see what consistent strength training can do for you, visit bulokebarbellclub.com 📍 @taylors_strength Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #getstronger #barbelltraining #strengthforlife #coaching
A lot of people are still advised to avoid squatti A lot of people are still advised to avoid squatting below parallel because it’s supposedly “bad for the knees.” In reality, when the squat is performed correctly, the opposite is often true. Humans have always squatted. Kids do it naturally, many adults around the world still rest in a full squat position, and we all squat to some degree every day when we sit down and stand up. The movement itself isn’t dangerous. A proper squat is a hips-driven movement. When the hips move back correctly, the glutes, hamstrings, adductors, and back take the majority of the load while the muscles around the knee help stabilise the joint. That’s one of the reasons full squats have been used for decades to build stronger, healthier knees in strength athletes. What usually causes problems is poor technique, poor load selection, or trying to force weights people can’t control properly. Ironically, partial squats are often where this gets worse. Cutting the movement short reduces the contribution from the hips and hamstrings and shifts more of the stress toward the knees while allowing people to overload the bar. A properly performed full squat builds stronger legs, hips, backs, connective tissue, balance, and bone density all at the same time. People don’t need to fear squats. They need to learn how to squat well. 🌐 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub.com
📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool
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People think coaching is all about sets, reps, tec People think coaching is all about sets, reps, technique, and adding weight to the bar. That’s obviously part of it. But one thing I’ve realised pretty quickly building this up is that the people matter more than anything else. I enjoy seeing people get stronger, but the best part is watching what happens when someone sticks at it for months. They start carrying themselves differently. They become more confident, more capable, and better at dealing with hard things. Not because training is magic. Because doing hard things consistently changes people. Everyone’s got something going on outside the gym. Work stress, poor sleep, family stuff, injuries, bad weeks. Nobody walks in feeling perfect all the time. But they still show up. That’s what I respect most. The barbell’s honest. It doesn’t care about excuses, confidence, or motivation. You turn up, do the work, and gradually improve over time. And honestly, being around people willing to do that every week is one of the best parts of coaching. 🌐 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub.com
📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool
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Sets of 5 work very well for building strength. T Sets of 5 work very well for building strength. There’s a reason so many good strength programs are built around them. They let you use enough weight to drive strength adaptations while still getting enough volume and practice with the movement. I use a lot of sets of 5 with newer and intermediate lifters for exactly that reason. But as lifters become more advanced, I often start assigning multiple rep ranges within the same exercise. For example: A heavier top set for 3-6 repsThen a back-off set for 6-9Then another for 9-12 As the weight comes down, the reps go up. The heavier work challenges force production and strength. The higher rep back-off sets let you accumulate more quality work, train the muscle harder, and build volume without every set becoming a grind. It also gives you more ways to progress. Some weeks you add weight, some weeks you add reps, sometimes both. Simple structure. Clear progression. Hard work done consistently. That combination works very well for building muscle and strength over the long term. 🌐 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub.com📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #hypertrophy #barbelltraining #progressiveoverload #coaching
A lot of people think getting older means slowing A lot of people think getting older means slowing down, being more careful, and accepting that your body just can’t do what it used to. But most of the time, the real issue isn’t age. It’s weakness. As we get older, we naturally lose muscle mass, bone density, balance, and the ability to produce force quickly. That’s why simple things start feeling harder than they should. Getting up off the floor. Carrying shopping bags. Climbing stairs. Catching yourself when you trip. Strength training directly addresses that. Not with endless cardio or light exercise that never really challenges the body, but by gradually exposing your muscles and skeleton to enough load that they adapt and stay capable. That’s the important part people miss: your body adapts to the demands placed on it. If you stop asking it to be strong, it stops being strong. The good news is that people can make massive improvements later in life. I’ve seen people who never touched a barbell before become dramatically stronger, more confident, and more capable within months of training consistently. You do not have to accept getting weaker as “just part of aging.” 🏋️ Coaching: bulokebarbellclub.com📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #healthyaging #barbelltraining #getstronger #coaching
A lot of people are hesitant to start lifting beca A lot of people are hesitant to start lifting because they think they’re not built for it. They’ve seen someone pick up a bar and look strong straight away, while they’re still figuring out where their hands go or how the lift should feel. It’s easy to think you’re already behind. The reality is most people don’t walk into the gym and look good under the bar. It feels awkward at first. Some lifts feel better than others. Progress isn’t always quick. That’s completely normal. Strength isn’t something you either have or don’t have. It’s something you build. It comes from practising the lifts, adding a bit of weight over time, and being consistent enough for those small improvements to stack up. The people who get strong aren’t always the ones who start out ahead. They’re the ones who stick with it and keep training when it feels slow. If you’re thinking about starting, you don’t need to be confident or naturally good at it. You just need to begin and give it time. 🌐 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #consistency #getstronger #coaching
I’ve got a new website live. It shows exactly how I’ve got a new website live. It shows exactly how I coach, what you get, and how to get started. If you want to get stronger, start here. Link in bio. #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #getstronger #coaching #onlinecoaching
Happy Easter 🐣 Hope you get some time to relax, s Happy Easter 🐣 Hope you get some time to relax, switch off, and spend it with good people. — Josh #happyeaster #liverpool #strengthtraining #bulokebarbellclub
Some days your mental health isn’t great. You don Some days your mental health isn’t great. You don’t feel like training. You don’t feel like doing much at all. That’s exactly when lifting can help. Not because it fixes everything. But because it gives you something solid to do when everything else feels off. You come in, focus on the bar, and for a while your attention is on something simple and real. On those days, keep it basic. Get to the gym. Do your warm-ups. Start your first set. More often than not, you’ll start to feel a bit better once you get going. And even if you don’t, you’ve still done something positive with your day. Lifting gives you structure when your head’s all over the place. A small win when you need one. You don’t need to feel ready. You just need to start. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #mentalhealth #coaching #progress
You don’t notice strength when you’ve got it. You You don’t notice strength when you’ve got it. You notice it when you don’t. Things that should be straightforward start feeling harder than they should. You slow down. You work around things instead of through them. That’s usually the point people start thinking about training. But it doesn’t need to get there. Strength is what keeps everything else running properly. It gives you margin. So you’re not operating flat out just to get through a normal day. You’ve got something left when it matters. That’s built in the gym. Not through variety or chasing a feeling. Through doing the same lifts well, consistently, and adding a bit more over time. It’s simple work. But it changes how capable you are everywhere else. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #coaching #progress #liverpoolfitness
43kg × 5 on the press for Lewis this week. The pr 43kg × 5 on the press for Lewis this week. The press looks simple. Bar starts on the shoulders and ends overhead. But getting it right takes practice. A good press depends on three things working together: the start position, the path of the bar, and the lockout at the top. If those pieces line up, the lift feels smooth and strong. If they don’t, the bar usually drifts forward and the rep gets much harder than it needs to be. We’ve been putting a lot of work into keeping the elbows under the bar, staying tight through the torso, and sending the bar up in a straight line over the mid foot. That vertical bar path is what lets the shoulders and triceps do their job efficiently. When the bar finishes overhead, the shoulders shrug up and the bar stacks directly over the shoulder joint. That’s the strongest position to support the weight. Lewis has been patient with the process and it’s paying off. Strong press. Big smile. Well earned. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #press #overheadpress #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #coaching
The deadlift starts before the bar leaves the floo The deadlift starts before the bar leaves the floor. Most problems people run into happen in the set-up, not the pull. Get the start position right and the lift usually takes care of itself. Start close to the bar. About 2cm or an inch from your shins. Take your grip, then bring your shins forward until they touch the bar. At that point your elbows should be even with your knees. Now lift your chest to set your back rigid. That cue isn’t about pulling your shoulders back. It’s about locking the back into a strong, flat position so it can transfer force from your hips and legs into the bar. Trying to pull your shoulders behind you just creates tension that won’t stay there once the weight gets heavy. It also shortens your arms and makes the pull harder than it needs to be. Keep it simple. Chest up. Back rigid. Push the floor away. A consistent set-up turns the deadlift into what it should be: a strong, efficient pull from the floor. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #deadlift #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #coaching #technique
160kg squat. 110kg bench. 190kg deadlift. That’s 160kg squat. 110kg bench. 190kg deadlift. That’s where @mikecarmona1 finished today. I started coaching Mike in October 2025. The numbers are solid. But how he built them matters more. It wasn’t easy. There were sessions where the bar felt heavy before it even left the rack. Weeks where progress slowed. A few setbacks that would have been a convenient excuse to back off. He didn’t. Strength isn’t built when it feels comfortable. It’s built when you keep showing up and adding a little more weight anyway. When you eat properly. When you recover properly. When you have honest conversations about what needs adjusting instead of pretending everything is fine. Mike did the work. The weights that once felt like hard top sets are now warm-ups. That’s what consistent, progressive training does. It raises your ceiling and your floor at the same time. Watching someone realise they’re capable of more than they thought never gets old. Not because it was easy. Because it wasn’t. Proud of you, mate. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #progress #coaching
The squat looks simple. Sit down. Stand up. Bar on The squat looks simple. Sit down. Stand up. Bar on your back. But how you organise your body under the bar changes everything. There are different ways to squat and they all have their place. The way I teach it is built around using the hips as the driver of the movement. When we squat, the goal is balance and force production, not staying perfectly upright. That means keeping the bar over the middle of the foot, setting the knees early, and moving the hips back to load them properly. From there, the back stays rigid and the hips lead the movement out of the bottom. I cue “hips” a lot. The knees still extend. The quads still work. But most people already know how to bend their knees. Learning how to load and drive with the hips allows you to use more muscle mass and move more weight. When the hips and back work together as one solid unit, the squat becomes a true full body lift that lets you lift more efficiently and more consistently over time. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #squat #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #coaching
Most people overcomplicate strength training. The Most people overcomplicate strength training. They argue about 4 reps vs 5. 71% vs 73%. Five minutes rest or six. Meanwhile they’re skipping sessions, changing exercises every week, and wondering why nothing moves. If you want to get stronger, sort this first: Turn up consistently. Lift the same core movements. Do them properly. Add weight over time. Squat. Press. Bench. Deadlift. Once that’s locked in, then you can worry about rep ranges, rest periods and percentages. Until you can show up, execute well, and progressively load the bar, the details don’t mean much. Strength isn’t built on clever tweaks. It’s built on doing the basics well for a long time. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #barbelltraining #progressiveoverload #coaching #trainwithintent
People like to separate “strength training” and “h People like to separate “strength training” and “hypertrophy training” as if they’re different things. They aren’t. Muscle grows because it is forced to produce more force over time. That’s it. Bigger muscles exist to move heavier loads. If the load never increases, neither does the muscle. The confusion starts when people mistake effort for progress. More reps, more sets, shorter rest, longer sessions. All of that can feel hard, but feeling tired is not the same as getting bigger. What actually works over the long term is progressive loading. The bar gets heavier. The same lifts are repeated. The body adapts by adding muscle so it can meet the demand being placed on it. That’s why strength training is hypertrophy training. Get stronger over time and muscle growth follows. No need for marathon sessions, endless variety, or chasing fatigue for its own sake. Just load the bar, recover, and do it again. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #hypertrophy #progressiveoverload #barbelltraining #realresults
Huge milestone for @mikecarmona1 on the bench. Wh Huge milestone for @mikecarmona1 on the bench. What I’m happiest with isn’t just the reps, it’s how they were done. Same setup every time. Tight from head to toe. The bar comes down to the same spot and presses back with control. That’s a bench press built on repeatable positions, not guesswork. If you want your bench to move, focus on the basics. Set your upper back before you unrack the bar, bring the bar to the same point on your chest every rep, keep tension through your legs and torso, and press with intent instead of rushing the weight. Mike’s progress is a perfect example of what happens when you stop chasing cues and start doing the fundamentals well. Confidence under the bar comes from knowing your setup will hold when it matters. Proud coaching moment. Plenty more to come. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #benchpress #strongtechnique #builtbytraining #barbellstrength #earnednotgiven
A lot of people think training is about doing more A lot of people think training is about doing more. More sessions. More exercises. More effort. But progress usually comes from changing how you approach it, not from piling more on. When effort is directed instead of scattered, training stops feeling like something that drains you and starts becoming something that gives back. Strength builds quietly at first. You feel better. You move better. Daily tasks take less out of you. Over time, that physical capacity carries into the rest of life. More energy. More patience. More confidence in situations that used to feel harder than they needed to be. What stands out most is how confidence grows once people realise they can handle a little more than last time. A small increase. A steadier rep. A weight that once felt intimidating now feels manageable. Repeated often enough, those moments stack into something meaningful. You stop guessing. You stop doubting. You start trusting the process and yourself. That shift in perspective is powerful. Strength does not just change what you can lift. It changes how you carry yourself and how you deal with what life throws at you. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #strengthtraining #buildingconfidence #trainingwithintent #barbelltraining #consistencywins
Most people think being a beginner is a weakness. Most people think being a beginner is a weakness. But when it comes to strength training, it’s actually your biggest advantage. If you’re new, your body is primed to adapt. Every week you can lift a little more, move a little better, and feel more confident under the bar. You don’t need fancy programs or 12 different machines. You need consistency, a plan that matches where you’re at, and enough food and rest to recover. All the lifters in this reel have been training with me between 3 weeks and 3 months. Every single one of them is making progress because that’s what happens when you train properly as a novice. Strength builds fast, confidence builds faster, and momentum takes care of the rest. Train simply. Train consistently. Train like it matters. 📍 Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📧 bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching updates #novicestrength #barbelltrainingworks #beginnerswelcome #buildstrengthbuildconfidence #simpletrainingeffectivegains
Most people walk into January hoping this year wil Most people walk into January hoping this year will be different. But hope without direction is what leads to another round of aimless workouts and another resolution that does not stick. Strength training offers a way out of that cycle. Not by doing more, but by doing what matters, consistently and with purpose. Squat, press, deadlift. Add weight. Track progress. Build momentum. That is training. And that is what turns effort into results. You do not need motivation when you have a plan. You do not need a fresh start when you have already built a habit. What you need is a system that works, one that gets you stronger week by week, not just sweatier. If you are ready to stop starting over, I coach lifters who want to train with intent and make this the year it actually sticks. In person at Taylor’s Strength Training or online, I help people build lasting strength with a plan that delivers. 📧 Coaching: bulokebarbellclub@gmail.com 📍Taylor’s Strength Training, Liverpool 📲 Follow @buloke_barbell for coaching and weekly lifting updates #startstrongstaystrong #trainwithpurpose #strengthinprogress #liftbetter #barbellfocused realtrainingrealresults liverpoolstrengthcoach
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