Coaching - Cast Iron Strength

02 Mar

Coaching, Fitness, Powerlifting, Rugby, Sport, Strength and Conditioning

The Bottom Line is Consistency

March 2, 2017
Posted by Marc Keys
Being a better lifter, expecting more, Mindset, Powerlifting, Standards, success
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If I look at anything that I have done well or that has been a success in my reasonably short tenure on this planet it has been the things, I have stuck with through...

25 Jan

Coaching, Strength and Conditioning, Strength and Conditioning Research, Strength training, Uncategorized

My Five Biggest Strength and Conditioning Influences.

January 26, 2017
Posted by Marc Keys
athletics, Rugby, Strength and conditioning, Strength coaching
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To know where you are going then you need to know where you have been. Next year will mark the end of my first decade of professional strength and conditioning with elite athletes. 2017...

16 Jan

Coaching, Strength and Conditioning, Strength and Conditioning Research, Strength Sports

More Questions than Answers – How to avoid the two most common traps new and experienced coaches or trainers fall into all too easily.

January 16, 2017
Posted by Marc Keys
Coaching, Conditioning, Phyilisopical, strength, Strength and conditioning
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The fitness industry, strength and conditioning, sports science and nutrition industry are funny places they straddle science and bullshit almost like no other field or industry. On one side we have those who are...

15 Mar

Coaching, Training Attitude, Training Rant introduction.

5 Reasons your “coach” is nothing more than a deadbeat.

March 15, 2016
Posted by Marc Keys
Coaching, Personal Training, Rant, Strength and conditioning, Thought, Training
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1 - They got their weekend certification 2 weeks ago. Personal training and to a lesser but saddeningly increasing degree "strength and conditioning" are industries and not professions (I have Ashley Jones to thank for...

21 Aug

Alternative, Coaching, Community, Health, Professional Resources, Strength training, United States

Bells and Whistles

August 21, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

Image via WikipediaI get to have a lot of conversations with people who are coaches or are looking into becoming a coach. I also like to be involved in the on-line lifting community...

06 Jul

American football, Association football, Coaching, Sports, Squat (exercise), Track and field athletics, Train, Westside

Non-Linear or Auto Regulatory Perodisation

July 6, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

A study has been published recently in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning looking at the effects of what they term as Non-Linear and Auto-Regulatory perodisation. This is by no means a new...