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How to Fix Your Bench Press: Parte 2 -The Execution (EliteFTS series)

“How to fix your bench press” was a series of three articles originally published at the EliteFTS website. The parts were:   1. The setup 2. The execution 3. Programming and assistance work On my website, I reproduce part of the article and the link to keep reading it at the EliteFTS site.   How …

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“Stuff from everyday” – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Powerlifters spend their whole lives having to fix small (or big) movement pattern or technique problems here and there. One might think that a very experienced high performance athlete doesn’t need to. Wrong: at each new injury (and they are inevitable and frequent), movement patterns are changed. They need fixing. Besides that, we evolve. Our …

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Gainz with just a barbell and a bench

Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F Bruno Last week Marilia told a bodybuilder friend about the Powerhouse (her home gym). But don’t you have at least a pulley? No… no pulley Dumbbells?… No, no dumbbells. They are on my list for soon, but I don’t know when soon will be. So he came to visit and was taken …

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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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Spreading the Iron Gospel – part 1

Like in any other sport or skilled activity, learning powerlifting involves certain stages. Sports learning is generally understood as a three stage process:  the cognitive, associative and autonomous stages. The cognitive stage is where the individual recognizes the basic components of a certain skill or motor task. He must form a visual image of each …

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