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Comparing RPE and Percentage Based Programming
Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the amount of strength coaches advocating RPE based programming for athletes at all levels instead of the more traditional percentage-based approach. Let’s look over some of the basics of both m... Continue reading
Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the amount of strength coaches advocating RPE based programming for athletes at all levels instead of the more traditional percentage-based approach. Let’s look over some of the basics of both m... Continue reading
Throwing Everything Off Balance: Asymmetry
Balance! The first thing you probably think of trying to stand on one leg with the other bottom of the opposite foot resting on the medial portion of your knee. That’s right. The stork stance. The next is trying to move across a balance beam at... Continue reading
Balance! The first thing you probably think of trying to stand on one leg with the other bottom of the opposite foot resting on the medial portion of your knee. That’s right. The stork stance. The next is trying to move across a balance beam at... Continue reading
Interview: Christine Na
Working your way up to the medal podium at the national level in weightlifting is tough. It’s a long, painful road with plenty of setbacks, obstacles, and moments of doubt. It gets even rougher when you sustain a major back injury that requires... Continue reading
Working your way up to the medal podium at the national level in weightlifting is tough. It’s a long, painful road with plenty of setbacks, obstacles, and moments of doubt. It gets even rougher when you sustain a major back injury that requires... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 172
Patricia Asks: I recently competed in a meet where everything was super hectic. The warm-up room only had 4 platforms (there were 26 lifters in my session), there were children running around screaming, someone got in a fight with their coach—i... Continue reading
Patricia Asks: I recently competed in a meet where everything was super hectic. The warm-up room only had 4 platforms (there were 26 lifters in my session), there were children running around screaming, someone got in a fight with their coach—i... Continue reading
WPTSD: Weightlifting Post traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has turned into a huge social topic over the last twenty years. From what I can tell, conversations about it started getting more frequent after the United States invaded Iraq and Afghanistan following the 9/11 a... Continue reading
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has turned into a huge social topic over the last twenty years. From what I can tell, conversations about it started getting more frequent after the United States invaded Iraq and Afghanistan following the 9/11 a... Continue reading
Good Lift, No Lift, Gross Lift
You know it when you see it. You know it when you lift it. You’ve legally managed to power through a lift you’d otherwise be buried by, shaking your head as your feet recover underneath the bar. It felt like shit. It looked like shit. &ld... Continue reading
You know it when you see it. You know it when you lift it. You’ve legally managed to power through a lift you’d otherwise be buried by, shaking your head as your feet recover underneath the bar. It felt like shit. It looked like shit. &ld... Continue reading
Injuries: How to Let Them Make You, Not Break You
Injuries come in all shapes and sizes. You may still be able to train with modifications, but they are a hindering nuisance. Or, they can be debilitating where you can’t train at all. Regardless of the severity of them, they’re annoying a... Continue reading
Injuries come in all shapes and sizes. You may still be able to train with modifications, but they are a hindering nuisance. Or, they can be debilitating where you can’t train at all. Regardless of the severity of them, they’re annoying a... Continue reading
Using Aerobic Conditioning to Improve Recovery
When people think about aerobic conditioning, they usually think about long, slow, boring tasks that transfer over to long, slow, boring events. That is because the aerobic system works in that way. Aerobics is described as the “with oxygen&rdq... Continue reading
When people think about aerobic conditioning, they usually think about long, slow, boring tasks that transfer over to long, slow, boring events. That is because the aerobic system works in that way. Aerobics is described as the “with oxygen&rdq... Continue reading
Improving Your Mental Health: Training Your Body to Feed Your Mind
Ever thought of exercise as food or fuel for your brain? Probably not. Why would you? But exercise is in many ways a brain food and the fuel for proper cognitive function and perspective. Ensuring you get plenty of physical activity is a great way to... Continue reading
Ever thought of exercise as food or fuel for your brain? Probably not. Why would you? But exercise is in many ways a brain food and the fuel for proper cognitive function and perspective. Ensuring you get plenty of physical activity is a great way to... Continue reading
Food and Relationship
Food is a universal experience. All animate life on earth requires it in some form. For humans, as with many other animate lifeforms, food constitutes external fuel sources that we consume, digest, and turn into energy. But food is so much more than ... Continue reading
Food is a universal experience. All animate life on earth requires it in some form. For humans, as with many other animate lifeforms, food constitutes external fuel sources that we consume, digest, and turn into energy. But food is so much more than ... Continue reading
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