April 2013

Let’s try to improve whatever lift or powerlifting issue you have in mind in a few easy steps. Not that I believe this, but I’m at the waiting room at my physician’s office, nothing to do except wait, so I decided to test a hypothesis: people like lists. As in “how to repair your tooth […]

I am working on this topic today for a class. Transfer is at the basis of the coaching challenge. Planning a sound training protocol for an athlete, a re-hab patient or any recreational practitioner comes back to the basic issue of transfer. The whole functionality imbroblio is actually about transfer: how goal-movement appropriate is your

Have you ever seen that guy who lifts easy 700lbs (whatever the lift, this is hypothetical) at the gym or in videos and just bombs out with 600lbs at the meet? Does it again at another meet? You know him, you know his training is good and well planned, he’s pretty strong, his nutrition was

Here I am, unable to lift today because I was careless about a blister from Tuesday. This is somewhat humiliating because it would never have happened had I taken the minimum hygiene procedures. That sort of thing your mom used to yell all the time before you were ten and you did the same with your

My friend, great athlete and coach Lynne Boshoven, asked me the following question, which triggered a stream of thought that I decided to share with everyone. Here you go: “What do you think is the most successful approach to bring new people into the sport?” Well, Lynne, this is a great question, not only because

My friend, great athlete and coach Lynne Boshoven asked me the following question, which apparently triggered a stream of thought that I decided to share with everyone. Here you go: “What do you think is the most successful approach to bring new people into the sport?” Well, Lynne, this is a great question, not only

I just watched Dan Ariely’s TED conference about motivation and work and it made me think about our attitude towards other people’s reaction to powerlifting. Most of us (in fact, I would say all of us) claim we don’t give a shit. I think this is a self-deception. I think saying we don’t give a

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About being alone, feeling good with your own company and being an athlete   “The bar is loaded” The lifter walks up alone to the platform. The spotters are busy getting setup into the safety position. Someone or a lot of people shout words of encouragement from backstage. Three referees are silently watching in intense