How Research Can Help You Manage Detraining and Retraining
Both are scary to endure, but as an athlete, it’s part of the game. A little bit of knowledge can go a long way in managing this kind of stress.
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Keeping healthy and injury-free when lifting weights – guest article by Mathew Foster
Weightlifting is complicated and very specific type of exercise. You can get great results when lifting weights, but you can also easily injury yourself, especially your muscles and joints. Hence why you need to have some kind of knowledge about the proper way to lift weights, in order to keep them healthy and avoid injuries. …
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The Healer
When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.” Qui-Gon Jinn, to Anakin Skywalker. Midi-chlorians are microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that live within the cells of all living beings. Since the dawn of cultural humanity, tribes and other types of societies have had healers. Today, “healer” is employed when describing traditional …
5 Ways to Recover from Training – faster (their list and my list)
This is from the series “using shallow marketable titles” to show there is much more to it than what is shown in these low content articles. I just copied a title that a lot of marketing-successful authors are using to suggest a more critical perspective on the theme of recovery. This is not intended as a …
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Question from reader: I am burned out. What should I do
I received this question from a reader today and as I was answering him privately I realized this might be a question more people share. I’ve written before about burnout (here and here) and will write more, so for now, this will be just a list of things you may do to start recovering …
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Recovery from Chaos 4: my rehab journey
My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovey from Chaos" – It does look like I screwed up, but I didn't: what was hurting during the exercise was NOT the left hamstring tendon origin, but other parts of the …
Recovery from Chaos 3: my rehab journey
My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovery from chaos" – or how to complicate something simple. I'm adding hip thrusts to my rehab program. First, there is ample evidence concerning its efficacy on hip extensors activation, which I …
Recovery from Chaos 2: on strength improvement and facing imbalance
This second chapter of “Recovery from Chaos” covers early April (April 2) up to April 20. It is also the period when the assessment of strength loss and injury expression is concluded. We now go into a period of addressing imbalances, which we (meaning Dani Overcash and myself) believe will be basic to enter a …
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My mother: if only I…
In 1998, when my mother was 72 years old, she had to have hip replacement surgery, with a prosthetic implant on the head of the femur. From then on, it was a downhill ride with the breaks on. She now wears a rigid corset to help with the excruciating pain her increasing scoliosis causes her. …
Recovery from Chaos 1: on the nature of the beast and facing it
“Recovery from Chaos” is a series that I am doing basically through short video posts on my Instagram/Facebook page. I shared it here, on my wall, so that you have an idea what it is. I took this small project after having to give up the meet preparation I was doing: too injured, too chaotic, …
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