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One of my favorite quotes is by expert Tony Blauer who states,
Sadly, the health ...
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Dr. Eric Cobb |
2008-04-29 |
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The squat has been my favorite lift since as long as I can remember. After I tore up my knee the consensus was to build ...
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Mark Reifkind, Senior RKC |
2008-03-17 |
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The other day I was reading an article by a well-known strength coach when he mentioned that Olympic weightlifting coach Anatoly Bondarchuk believed there were ...
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C.S. Sloan |
2008-01-07 |
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In this article Im going to explain how one can maintain their strength in the deadlift and even increase it with minimal deadlifting using the ...
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Steve Belanger, RKC |
2007-12-18 |
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Its ironic that after living on my hands for so many years as a kid and then as a gymnast that I completely neglected that ...
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Mark Reifkind, Sr. RKC |
2007-12-18 |
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Before I get started with this program, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and explain how this program came to be. ...
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Curt McDonald |
2007-12-05 |
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Recently I had an opportunity to hear my good friend, Mike Boyle give a talk at a Perform Better Summit.
In his opening statements he made ...
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Gray Cook |
2007-11-05 |
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If you missed Part 1 – to get up to speed on this debate.
And away we go….
Brett Jones
Randy - you say ...
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Brett Jones Sr. RKC, CSCS |
2007-09-25 |
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A few years ago, as I was spiraling into my mid-life crisis, I decided I would add some aftermarket performance equipment to the little two-seater ...
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Randy Hauer, RKC TL |
2007-09-13 |
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In my quest to close the Captain of Crush # 3, I soon realised that less is more. I am fortunate enough to already have ...
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Sam Dovey |
2007-08-20 |
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Have you ever noticed that once you start to squat a weight that is close to your one rep max, or getting toward the end ...
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Thomas Phillips, RKC TL |
2007-07-30 |
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competing at Disneys Wide World ...
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Thomas Phillips, RKC Team Leader |
2007-06-19 |
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When we talk about effort in the weight room it means many different things. Effort involves resistance, speed, power, endurance, strength and the list ...
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Mike Hanley |
2007-05-23 |
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In all my years of training, consulting, and lecturing around the country I’ve yet to encounter one person who felt his strength was too great. ...
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Chad Waterbury |
2007-05-09 |
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Leg extensions, Leg curls, Calf raises, Leg press, Lat pull-down, Bicep curls, Tricep extensions . . . who in their right mind would continue to ...
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Thomas Phillips, RKC |
2007-04-24 |
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Like oil and water, Power-lifters and Olympic lifters are two groups that don’t usually play well with one another. But due to a discussion ...
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Brett Jones Sr. RKC, CSCS |
2007-04-10 |
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The Turkish Get Up (TGU) is a classic drill and display of power and coordination. It fits in with the Bent Press and proper squat ...
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Adam T. Glass, SSgt, USAF |
2007-03-20 |
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A karate punch is like an iron bar. ‘ Whack!’ A kung fu punch is like an iron chain with an iron ball ...
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Alwyn Cosgrove |
2007-03-09 |
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If you want conditioning while on a strength-focused program like Pavel’s , learn to swing a kettlebell for 1-2 minutes non-stop ...
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Steve Freides, RKC |
2007-02-09 |
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The classic six-week Russian Squat Routine is legendary for giving a kick start to the squatter whose progress has stopped. What makes it so effective ...
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Randy Hauer, RKC |
2007-01-04 |
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The reasons to follow a training template have been well documented; however, all too often a lifter can become so absorbed in the program that ...
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Thomas Phillips, RKC |
2007-01-04 |
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A Sample Routine
Let’s look at the squat/ deadlift and how this might work. Say you are built for the DL with a shorter back and ...
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Mark Reifkind, Senior RKC |
2006-12-22 |
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One of the great joys I have is being able to speak and learn from top coaches and training minds such as Louie Simmons ...
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Mark Reifkind, Senior RKC |
2006-11-28 |
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My name is Lance Mosley and in this article I will be discussing my training, exercises and various things ...
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Lance Mosley, RKC |
2006-11-15 |
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Not too different from Pavel’s method of ‘Power Breathing’ found in , the following technique of Reverse ...
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Tim Heuertz |
2006-10-03 |
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Circuit Training is an excellent training method. You can train many muscles in a short time without letting any single group reach fatigue. You can ...
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Guy Razy |
2006-08-02 |
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Last summer and fall I completed the within a couple of months of each ...
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Ivan F. ‘Doc’ Kelley, DC, RKC |
2006-06-29 |
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Amongst competitive bench pressers it is no secret that big strong lats make it easier to drive heavy weight off your chest. Of course, ...
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Thomas Phillips, RKC |
2006-06-22 |
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Deadlifting is one of the oldest and hardest exercises around. Its very simple; you just pick the bar up off ...
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Marc Bartley, RKC |
2006-06-06 |
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I’ve found that using a form of progressive relaxation can aid with two important aspects in strength training. It can facilitate learning the high ...
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Kevin Perrone, RKC |
2006-05-24 |
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Pavel Tsatsouline asked me to let all of you Pavelizers out there in on a special leverage-building-body-stabilizing-breathing-opposing-stretch-contraction exercise which fascinated him. This movement ensures the ...
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Dr. Greg Tefft |
2006-04-28 |
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Ive been a competitive powerlifter for the last thirteen years, with a modicum of success. I did a triple bodyweight plus squat at 181(545#) benched ...
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Mark Reifkind |
2006-03-27 |
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Besides the ever famous “I am going nowhere in my training, and oh by the way I don’t eat that much, why am I not ...
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Jack Reape |
2006-03-22 |
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My name is Ellen Stein and I am a powerlifter. For the last 12 years that word has defined who ...
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Ellen Stein |
2006-03-10 |
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Period: A point or portion of time at which something is ended; a completion or conclusion.
In their book on the subject of periodization, ...
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Barry Ross |
2006-02-27 |
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After reading many 3-lift powerlifting routines and trying some of them, I came to the conclusion that if you dont squat, a lot of things ...
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Steve Freides, RKC |
2006-01-31 |
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The ...
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Pavel |
2006-01-01 |
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According to Dr. Mel Siff, “Ballistic movement comprises bursts of muscular activity followed by phases of relaxation during which the motion continues as a consequence ...
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Barry Ross |
2005-12-14 |
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My name is Bud Jeffries. If you’re reading this site you probably know me and you’ve probably seen my friend Dennis Rogers on ...
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Dennis Rogers |
2005-11-29 |
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One of the hottest debates that still lingers in the fitness/rehab and sports performance industries is that over the correct use of the abdominal wall ...
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Keats Snideman and Josh Henkin, RKC |
2005-10-11 |
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Time and again on Internet forums, in gym conversations, and e-mails the same question pops up, “How do I gain weight?” This question has been ...
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Jack Reape |
2005-08-19 |
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Stuart McGill, Professor of Spine Biomechanics |
2005-08-01 |
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At a gymnastics or martial arts meet, or at a weightlifting competition, listen to the coaches advice to the athlete – Stay tight! This means ...
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Stuart McGill, Professor of Spine Biomechanics |
2005-06-22 |
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Marty Farrell, RKC |
2005-06-10 |
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I have experimented with many different methods to train the deadlift during the past 25 years. Initially my deadlift training was very crude and ...
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Brad Gillingham |
2005-06-09 |
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I love to Golf. I love the mental and physical aspects of the game, I love the way the ball feels when it comes off ...
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Jack Reape |
2005-05-31 |
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When I’m in the gym or at a PL meet and I see a lot of deadlifts with bad or inefficient technique. A ...
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Harald Leymann |
2005-05-02 |
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I have come to the following conclusion, after considerable research and study of much of the available material regarding the training methods and results of ...
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Kurt J. Wilkens, RKC |
2005-04-05 |
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Ethan Reeve is in his third season at Wake Forest, coming from Ohio University in February 2001 to ...
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Zach Even - Esh, BA, MA |
2005-03-24 |
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Using boards to build your Bench Press is simply the best way to address weaknesses and improve your groove. This article will hopefully explain how ...
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Jack Reape |
2005-03-03 |
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“If you are healthy enough to handle it, power breathing will be the best thing that has happened to your strength. Ever. Power ...
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Matthew G. Soltis |
2005-02-21 |
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There has been a lot of talk of late about power breathing and its effect on strength. Power breathing is performed by taking a slow ...
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Aaron Ellis |
2005-02-07 |
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There are two kinds of vodka: good and very good. A simple Russian lad named Misha was too preoccupied with his thoughts to notice ...
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Pavel |
2005-01-24 |
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Its amazing what you get stuck with in life: about five years ago, I wrote a small article for a lifting magazine about the Overhead ...
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Dan John |
2005-01-24 |
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I hear it at least once a week. On the forum or in conversations with potential clients, friends, and family it goes a little something ...
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Don Stevenson, RKC |
2004-12-31 |
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One of my ‘secrets’ to training athletes is so simple that you may ignore how good it is until you try it. Really, I think ...
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Dan John |
2004-11-23 |
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Conventional wisdom indicates that you must train for one goal at a time. Do not mix strength with endurance. Do not mix ...
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Brett Jones CSCS, RKC, Sr. |
2004-10-21 |
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Comrades, Im not a Captain of Crush. That simply stated means that I cannot close the #3. For those of you who do not know ...
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Martin Farrell |
2004-10-20 |
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Quietly and privately training for self-improvement on your own at home or in a gym of some kind is an admirable hobby. For many, the ...
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Jack Reape |
2004-10-20 |
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Hey, Comrades, seems we get a lot of questions about how to use the ‘Bear’ protocol of to get bigger. ...
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Aaron |
2004-10-20 |
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I have covered the use band and chain on the kettlebell as accommodating resistance in my last article. In this article I am going to ...
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Craig Culver |
2004-10-20 |
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For strength athletes, sprinters, running backs and linemen everywhere, the squat is the acknowledged King of Exercises. The transformative power of the 20-rep squat routine ...
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Rob Lawrence, RKC |
2004-10-20 |
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The sooner you realize the importance of explosive strength, the better. I don’t care if you are professional fighter, football player or bodybuilder - ...
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Chad Waterbury |
2004-10-20 |
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I think it was Rousseau who said that Mans biggest problem was that he wasnt content to simply sit tight and stay in his room. ...
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Garrett McElfresh, PT |
2004-10-20 |
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Over the course of my lifting career Ive inadvertently stumbled across some very effective methods, some of them almost identical to the methods Pavel advocates. ...
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Daniel Rodgers |
2004-10-20 |
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First I would like to thank Pavel and John Du Cane and the folks here at Dragon Door for asking me to write some articles ...
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Bud Jeffries |
2004-10-12 |
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Ask the average strength devotee the question, “What is strength?”, and you will probably receive a look that is normally reserved for “special” children and ...
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Jeff O’Connor, RKC |
2004-10-11 |
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If coaches are going to train their sprinters like powerlifters why not start with powerlifters and train them to run faster? If its just ...
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Barry Ross |
2004-10-11 |
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For many readers, lurkers, and Comrades at , the Outcomes and Goals portion of their training approach has become swallowed up by a witch’s ...
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Jack Reape |
2004-10-11 |
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Jim "Smitty" Smith |
2004-09-13 |
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Finally, after many years, it seems the deadlift is on the rise. In New Orleans in September 2002. I was lucky to witness not one ...
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Louie Simmons |
2004-08-16 |
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Let us take a little time out of our busy schedules to just relax. Let us put aside for a moment all of our hard ...
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Kurt J. Wilkens, RKC |
2004-07-22 |
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I’ve never encountered any form or mode of exercise that equals the sheer muscle-building, strength-infusing capacity of compound, multi-joint progressive resistance movements done with a ...
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Marty Gallagher |
2004-06-22 |
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There are many methods and training systems in PL today. A few of them are very successful, like the WSB, the Smolov, the RSR, the ...
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Harald ‘G. Soldier’ Leymann |
2004-06-10 |
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Recently, being the mad doctor that I am, Ive been playing around with a different way of cycling for the impatient-gotta-have-it-all-now-type of lifter. It comes ...
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Carl “Saintm” Sanchez |
2004-06-02 |
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On my recent trip to the Carolinas I had a chance to talk to Jimmy, an old family friend. Jimmy has known me since ...
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Eric S. Bruesch |
2004-05-04 |
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Arthur Saxon, Eugene Sandow. Paul Anderson. Herman Goerner. All of these vintage strongmen possessed amazing strength. Although each ...
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Michael Occhino |
2004-04-15 |
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Tension is simultaneously one of the most important and the most overlooked aspects of strength training. It is certainly what separates Pavel’s training and techniques ...
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Dan McVicker, RKC |
2004-03-18 |
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When you see all the fancy cars exiting the “drive through” at McDonald’s, it may appear fictitious that we homo-sapiens evolved over millions of years ...
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Paul Chek, HHP, NMT |
2004-01-26 |
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9/1/00
-Can train up to 7 days a week, take days off if tired as needed.
-15 – 20 seconds rest between reps for mass, for max ...
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Sean Williams |
2003-12-18 |
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During those times when were forced to be on the road, away from family and friends, it often proves boring to endure the long hours ...
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John McKean |
2003-10-28 |
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During my recent talks in Bellaria Italy, a theme developed which reflects what I consider to be a problem in the way that ...
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Charles Staley, B.Sc., MSS |
2003-10-28 |
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The statue of David, Hercules, and numerous other works of art out of antiquity display powerful physiques with thick spinal erectors, shoulder girdles, and corded ...
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Daniel “Dano” Rodgers |
2003-10-20 |
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Years ago I started bodybuilding with the goal of increasing my strength. Then in 1997 I made a switch to Powerlifting and started competing ...
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Harald ’G. Soldier’ Leymmann |
2003-09-26 |
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The most common form of strength training, used for a boxer, is circuit training. Circuit training enables a coach to train a large ...
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Steve Baccari, RKC |
2003-09-26 |
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Ive always thought that Im pretty much game for anything as far as my training is concerned. Ive tried many different training protocols ...
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Ken 'Exrecondoc' James |
2003-09-11 |
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What is the appropriate ratio of volume and intensity? How can you build limit strength, muscular endurance, and hypertrophy all at the same ...
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Ken ‘Exrecondoc’ James |
2003-09-11 |
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The following article is aimed the beginning trainee or someone with the responsibility of overseeing the training of teenagers and young adults. Hopefully the ...
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Mike Dieguez |
2003-08-28 |
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Christian Thibaudeau |
2003-07-07 |
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In website courtrooms all across the internet, you can find the same trial played out time and time again: Frequent Training stands accused of the ...
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Kurt J. Wilkens |
2003-06-02 |
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General Physical Preparedness, or GPP, has become a buzz term around the strength and conditioning over the last few years. As with any important ...
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Chad Waterbury |
2003-06-02 |
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I love being a strength coach. I love helping anyone get stronger, fitter, more athletic…as long as they do it my way. So ...
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Stephane Rochet, RKC |
2003-05-21 |
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Over the years Ive heard many people say that deadlifts are the worst thing for your back, or if youre going ...
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Vic Holtreman |
2003-05-13 |
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To us hard-core American Combatives practitioners, very little matches the exhilaration of hearing John Kary holler NOW!!! as we face Renfro, Spanky, Buckwheat, or his ...
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John McKean |
2003-03-16 |
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There is a threshold of diminishing returns when it comes to increased size and mass. Middleweight lifters may have an ideal power to weight ratio. ...
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Tom Furman RKC |
2003-03-06 |
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Lets go for a ride down Injury Lane. At times, the pursuit of fitness seems like a journey from one injury to the next, a ...
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Rick Huse, RKC (aka. Ironman) |
2003-01-17 |
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Comrades, I have used the following routine to increase my deadlift from 525 to 555 in 6 weeks. The original name of this program was ...
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Eddie ‘the Green Ghost’ Kowacz |
2002-12-23 |
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A proper tool makes the job easier. I will show you how to do a great job of building strength with ‘low tech/high concept’ ...
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Tom Furman, RKC |
2002-11-28 |
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Last week I discovered all 4 tires on my relatively new car were dangerously worn. After throwing a few mental ax hands at car manufacturers ...
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John McKean |
2002-10-01 |
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I recently reported the results of a crude experiment on the effects of tension techniques on strength performance. Since Pavel asked me to write an ...
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Brad Johnson |
2002-08-30 |
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Copyright 2001 Advanced Fitness Solutions, Inc.
This article first appeared in Powerlifting USA magazine. Call (800) 448-7693 to subscribe.
In case you got all starry ...
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Pavel Tsatsouline |
2002-08-20 |
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Since becoming the first NASS (North American Strongman Society) State Chairman for Nebraska and Iowa, I have had many people contact me, asking how to ...
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Joe Secord |
2002-08-01 |
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Comrades, some of you know me and some of you don’t so I’ll introduce myself. My name is Simon Forsyth.. My main goal in life ...
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Simon Forsyth |
2002-07-24 |
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Copyright 1999 Advanced Fitness Solutions, Inc.
This article was first published in MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes under the heading Chain Yourself to the ...
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Pavel Tsatsouline |
2002-07-02 |
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THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS:
THE BENCH PRESS
by Jack Reape
I do not consider myself a great bench presser. I know a couple great Bench Pressers, ...
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Jack Reape |
2002-07-02 |
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As a fairly recent convert to the joys of deadlifting I’ve struggled with getting my lift beyond my body weight (currently around 225 lbs. at ...
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Mark Taintor |
2002-06-14 |
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I started lifting in what I like to think of as the golden years of powerlifting, the early 80s, before politics and training gear destroyed ...
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B. Philip Workman |
2002-06-04 |
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There is an old adage that says, Think big, act big, to get big. It is therefore very important to learn about mind doctrine ...
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Dennis B. Weis |
2002-06-04 |
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I do not claim to be an expert on Powerlifting by any means. I am not a Ph.D., or a qualified coach, and have never ...
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Jack Reape |
2002-06-04 |
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Routine construction is the induction or baptism of sorts for the apprentice strongman/woman. It is a necessary evil in that it offers an intellectual guide ...
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Richard-Anthony Morris |
2002-06-04 |
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Many congratulations poured my way from All-Round buddies at last years USAWA national championships when I topped the platform for the final lift of ...
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John McKean |
2002-06-04 |
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Having spent the past thirty years or using my hands to make a living I can really appreciate the concept of hard work. My various ...
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Tom Furman, RKC |
2002-06-03 |
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Todays media has glamorized the male torso in print, TV, and the film arena. Male models and actors exhibit physical development that represents a cosmetic ...
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Tom Furman, RKC |
2002-06-03 |
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One the most frequent questions posted on the Dragondoor.com forum is why keep
the PTP (Power to the People!) and RKC (Russian Kettlebell Challenge) training ...
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Craig Culver |
2002-06-03 |
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Paul Butterfield |
2002-06-03 |
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Paul Butterfield |
2002-06-03 |
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I first met Pavel a few years ago at a course in Minneapolis. I had only recently rekindled my interest in strength training after ...
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Indrananda |
2002-05-30 |