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Support Your Local Weightlifter: A Farewell to Performance Menu
As some of you may know, this is Performance Menu’s final issue. All good things must come to an end. I feel extremely fortunate and privileged ... Continue reading
As some of you may know, this is Performance Menu’s final issue. All good things must come to an end. I feel extremely fortunate and privileged ... Continue reading
Your Training Cycles Are Social Constructs, So Construct Them Around Your Needs
Here’s something you’re probably sick of hearing: athletic performance outcomes are contingent on regimented work; athletes need to adhere... Continue reading
Here’s something you’re probably sick of hearing: athletic performance outcomes are contingent on regimented work; athletes need to adhere... Continue reading
Ask not What Weightlifting Can Do for You; Ask What You Can Do for Weightlifting
In 2009, when giving a commencement speech at USC, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger outlined his now famous Six Rules of Success. I must... Continue reading
In 2009, when giving a commencement speech at USC, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger outlined his now famous Six Rules of Success. I must... Continue reading
Do You Have a Team Around You?
In the media scrum before UFC 265, legendary UFC two-division champion Daniel “DC” Cormier gave the following advice to interim heavyweigh... Continue reading
In the media scrum before UFC 265, legendary UFC two-division champion Daniel “DC” Cormier gave the following advice to interim heavyweigh... Continue reading
Providence or Merit: How to Think about your Training Progress (or Lack Thereof)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the concept of fairness a lot. We often uphold fairness as the gold standard principle by which society should ... Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the concept of fairness a lot. We often uphold fairness as the gold standard principle by which society should ... Continue reading
Nothings (Un)fair in Love and Weightlifting: The Case for Trans Inclusion
It’s time for us to say it out loud: Weightlifting as an Olympic sport has an inclusion problem. It always has. For a sport that considers itsel... Continue reading
It’s time for us to say it out loud: Weightlifting as an Olympic sport has an inclusion problem. It always has. For a sport that considers itsel... Continue reading
Are You Taking Off-Seasons?: The Importance of Transition Periods, Unstructured Training, and Play
In the years that I’ve spent coaching and managing a weightlifting club, I noticed that most athletes that I end up working with, tend to train ... Continue reading
In the years that I’ve spent coaching and managing a weightlifting club, I noticed that most athletes that I end up working with, tend to train ... Continue reading
Virtual Competitions: Reflections and Lessons Learned
Needless to say, this past year has been a whirlwind for competitive weightlifters and coaches at all levels. Athletes and coaches scrambled to refocu... Continue reading
Needless to say, this past year has been a whirlwind for competitive weightlifters and coaches at all levels. Athletes and coaches scrambled to refocu... Continue reading
Mental Crash Between Snatches and Clean and Jerks in Competition: Maintaining Optimal Arousal
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An athlete is at a competition. The athlete is preparing for the snatch event and everything is going p... Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An athlete is at a competition. The athlete is preparing for the snatch event and everything is going p... Continue reading
Mindfulness in Olympic Weightlifting: A Practical Guide, Part 3: The What and the How of Mindfulness, Bringing it All Together
In this last article in the three-part mindfulness series, I want to bring both the what (observe, describe, and participate) and the how (non-judgmen... Continue reading
In this last article in the three-part mindfulness series, I want to bring both the what (observe, describe, and participate) and the how (non-judgmen... Continue reading
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