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A simple way to split your training and how to complicate it

Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F. Bruno It is funny because it was right under our nose. Yet it took us a situation of training chaos (a vacation in which you cannot predict where you will train and when) to connect the dots. Our approach to training is movement based. We don’t train parts of the body. We …

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Into the mind of the coach: Swede Cory Burns

(“Into the mind of the coach” project – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born on April 4th, 1980, in Delaware County Memorial Hospital, which is just on the edge of the city of …

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Into the mind of the coach: Lord Elliott

(“Into the mind of the coach” project – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? Many people are always intrigued by my name or what it stands for. I get a balance of good reactions and bad …

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Into the mind of the coach: Jay Ashman

(“Into the mind of the coach” project – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born in Reading, PA and moved around quite a bit for career and personal reasons. I spent a lot of …

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Into the mind of the coach: Eric Grogin

(“Into the mind of the coach” project – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born in Tarzana California. I moved when I was three years old to Ridgewood New Jersey, I lived there until …

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Into the mind of the coach

This is a series of interviews that some friends who are great coaches agreed to answer. My objective was to explore the personal aspects of each of these people’s lives that made them what they are: good coaches. That includes their childhood experiences and influences, the people they admired, and chance. Chance plays a big …

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The 5th Set for Powerlifting: a breakthrough in training system design

The 5th Set is a training system for the sport of powerlifting. That includes a periodization model, a system for routine composition, procedural guidelines to transition from and to different phases within a mesocycle or between mesocycles, and very precise instructions concerning execution. It certainly can be used by people who wish to get strong …

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Why do I have to make weight? Understanding relative strength and the nature of competition in sport.

  Making weight, in addition to being one of the most difficult aspects of sport, is often the most misunderstood. Widely criticized by both those who practice and those who watch any sport divided in bodyweight classes, making weight and cutting weight are often depicted as cheating or as reckless and risky behavior. Several academic …

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Using weightlifting to improve powerlifting

Eric Brown (@oracleofihop) and Marilia Coutinho (@marilia_coutinho) Few lifts have the complexity – and generate the controversy – as the snatch and clean. Included in the Olympics since 1896, they have been the basis for many strength and conditioning programs at both the collegiate and professional levels. The quick lifts have any number of benefits …

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