14 Jan

2013 worlds – lu xiaojun squatting (if anyone want’s to know how to squat watch this!)

January 14, 2014
Posted by Marc Keys
260 kg squat, back squat, chinese weightlifter, learn how to squat, perfect lifting technique, perfect squat form, squat form, weightlifting

16 Jan

You are on the spectrum! – William Brown

January 16, 2018
Conditioning, Powerlifting, strength, warm ups, warming up, weightlifting
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The mobility-stability spectrum that is. Other spectrums may vary. You stare long enough at the memes, sometimes the memes stare back.Mobility or Stability?Onto the useful stuff. I see loads of athlete and coaches droning...

19 Apr

crossfit, Sport Specific, Sports, Strength and Conditioning

In Defense of Specificity

April 19, 2017
crossfit, Getting Stronger, Powerlifting, Sports Training, weight training, weightlifting
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Ready for anything at any time is the call of the generalist trainer or those who have somehow gotten into their heads that the best way to progress forward in fitness or in training...

16 Nov

Learning, Opinion, Powerlfiting, Rugby, Strength and Conditioning

The difference between knowledge and performance – Let’s talk about what it actually takes to become a better lifter.

November 16, 2016
Becoming Elite, Coaching, Feedback, mastering powerlifting, Mastering Weightlifting, Mastery, Performance, Powerlifting, weightlifting
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The majority of this article is inspired by the frankly excellent book Peak by Anders Ericsson whose body of work is in skill learning and the achievement of expert status or mastery. A lot...

04 Feb

Strength and Conditioning Research, Uncategorized

Strength and Conditioning Research – The TL;DR Version – February 2016

TL;DR DigestThrowing the kitchen sink at recovery can have a small increase on repeated anaerobic win gate performance during a day's training. Compression garments are again shown to be no better than control. If you want...

05 Nov

Humor

Strength Sport Fan Boys – Weightlifter vs Powerlifter vs Strongman – why only an idiot takes the debate seriously.

November 5, 2015
crossfit, Humour, internet, Powerlifting, Strongman, vs, weightlifting, Who is the strongest
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Every sport has it's own fan boys/girls without these characters then a lot of sports wouldn't be able to support professional athletes and equipment manufacturers would have no one to sell their wares to....

19 Mar

Conditioning, Powerlifting, Strength Sports, Strongman, Weightlfting

Conditioning for strength and power sports. Part one building an aerobic base without affecting your strength and power training.

March 19, 2014
Aerobic Base, Base line Conditioning, Conditioning, Powerlifting, Rugby, Strength Sports, weightlifting, Wrestling

Weightlifting and powerlifting are typically very static sports and don’t require a huge amount of aerobic capacity yet it is common practice for a lot of eastern European/Asian weightlifting programmes to have some...