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You Have No Idea How This Feels
I have to start this month’s article with a story that’s near and dear to my heart. Back when I was in the top years of my weightlifting career (late 90s), there was a fellow superheavyweight lifter who competed in most of the same meets ... Continue reading
I have to start this month’s article with a story that’s near and dear to my heart. Back when I was in the top years of my weightlifting career (late 90s), there was a fellow superheavyweight lifter who competed in most of the same meets ... Continue reading
Take What Works: the Lessons of Physical Culture History
“That there is an almost total neglect of the physical education of our youth in the home and school, as seen in the imperfectly developed frames...crooked spines, round shoulders and protruding shoulder-blades... flabby muscles... lung-starved... Continue reading
“That there is an almost total neglect of the physical education of our youth in the home and school, as seen in the imperfectly developed frames...crooked spines, round shoulders and protruding shoulder-blades... flabby muscles... lung-starved... Continue reading
Weightlifting Mesocycles Part 3: Power Phase for Weightlifters
Last month’s topic, the significance of general strength, is followed with this month’s topic of power. After four weeks of general preparation and four weeks of strength work, the process of converting this to power is critical. The defi... Continue reading
Last month’s topic, the significance of general strength, is followed with this month’s topic of power. After four weeks of general preparation and four weeks of strength work, the process of converting this to power is critical. The defi... Continue reading
Top Ten Strategies For Dealing With Injuries
You’re trucking along in your training, making steady progress. You’re finally getting close to where you want to be. Then, all of a sudden, life throws you a curve ball. A niggling pain you’ve been ignoring becomes unbearable, or y... Continue reading
You’re trucking along in your training, making steady progress. You’re finally getting close to where you want to be. Then, all of a sudden, life throws you a curve ball. A niggling pain you’ve been ignoring becomes unbearable, or y... Continue reading
Recipes: Issue 77
Beef Tendon Stew Beef tendon is a meal common in some Asian cultures. It can be found in Asian markets and is simple to prepare. It's also inexpensive. Cooked properly, it has a creamy, buttery consistency and a taste not unlike that of pork belly... Continue reading
Beef Tendon Stew Beef tendon is a meal common in some Asian cultures. It can be found in Asian markets and is simple to prepare. It's also inexpensive. Cooked properly, it has a creamy, buttery consistency and a taste not unlike that of pork belly... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 76
Mike Asks: Please consider a Newsletter or other forum for discussing the rationale and recovery implications for training multiple days in a row. I know those in the Oly community take it for granted that a 3 or 4 on, 1 off schedule is standard, but... Continue reading
Mike Asks: Please consider a Newsletter or other forum for discussing the rationale and recovery implications for training multiple days in a row. I know those in the Oly community take it for granted that a 3 or 4 on, 1 off schedule is standard, but... Continue reading
The Mother of Invention
New inventions. They’re great little things, aren’t they? Where would our society be if it wasn’t for some creative thinkers who decided to develop ideas for things like penicillin, beer, rock and roll, cell phones, weightlifting sh... Continue reading
New inventions. They’re great little things, aren’t they? Where would our society be if it wasn’t for some creative thinkers who decided to develop ideas for things like penicillin, beer, rock and roll, cell phones, weightlifting sh... Continue reading
What We Can Learn From Pitchers About Shoulder Health
A professional pitcher’s arm can rotate up to 2500 degrees per second during a pitch, one of the fastest recorded human motions. To slow the arm down requires a force of approximately one half the pitcher’s body weight on some very small ... Continue reading
A professional pitcher’s arm can rotate up to 2500 degrees per second during a pitch, one of the fastest recorded human motions. To slow the arm down requires a force of approximately one half the pitcher’s body weight on some very small ... Continue reading
Weightlifting Mesocycles Part 2: General Strength for Weightlifters
Last month’s topic was the importance of general physical preparation (GPP). This month, we will focus on the significance of general strength. Many lay people misinterpret weightlifting as a technical sport, meaning its all technique requiring... Continue reading
Last month’s topic was the importance of general physical preparation (GPP). This month, we will focus on the significance of general strength. Many lay people misinterpret weightlifting as a technical sport, meaning its all technique requiring... Continue reading
The Laws of Adiposity: A Book Excerpt
What follows is a sample chapter from Gary Taubes’ newest book, Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It. The fate of the laboratory rat is rarely enviable. The story I’m about to tell offers no exception. Still, we can learn from the r... Continue reading
What follows is a sample chapter from Gary Taubes’ newest book, Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It. The fate of the laboratory rat is rarely enviable. The story I’m about to tell offers no exception. Still, we can learn from the r... Continue reading
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