1. Referees must be minimally literate. Barely literate referees, unable to understand basic elements of anatomy, are incapable of making judgment claims in sports such as powerlifting, that requires some technical knowledge of human body parts. 2. “Random refereeing”, where a lift is red lighted without any reasonable motive and where experienced athletes are unable […]
A short note on powerlifting refereeing Read More »
Periodization is not a complicated idea. Basically, it means designing a training program according to goals distributed along a period of time, or even planning variation (or it’s opposite, maintenance) of stimuli considering time. That’s about it. It gets a little more complicated when we have to decide how to organize time. What will we
Just a short note to say I am collecting lifter’s experience with the management of elbow pain. Whatever I write is not intented as medical advice. It is an attempt to organize the sharing of strategies devised by lifters themselves to handle this annoying chronic problem that affects so many of us. During the process
Elbow soreness part 1 Read More »
Yesterday we held the extraordinary assembly of the National Strength Alliance (ANF), in Brazil. We needed to indicate new members, new board of directors and decide about basic issues. From the original composition, only two members were left. All the others had more important things to do, disagreed with the purpose of the organization and
That’s really a question – I have no answer. I did it not once or twice. I see others do it. It can go from neglecting the training load prescribed for the day to ignoring injury signals. I did the latter about three weeks before the South American powerlifting championship last year. This year, I
Why do athletes do stupid things right before the contest? Part 1 Read More »
Dear Mr. Scheiber, I got it: understanding yourselves as “the” only-WW powerlifting federation gives you the right to disregard my right over my own image, because it was taken at a meet that you officially despise, right? I loved this reply! thanks! Marilia On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Emanuel Scheiber 2 <[email protected]>wrote: Dear
It gets better and better: the surreal response from the IPF international Read More »
Today I opened my facebook and saw my picture on a poster. My first reaction was just being mildly surprised: after all, people know me and the pictures are beautiful. They were taken by my sister, who is a professional photographer and a real artist. I looked closer and I realized the poster advertised a
This is not an essay. This is not an argument. This is just a note to myself and everybody else to pursue this line of thinking further, and also to share my very slight enthusiasm about discovering it. It sounds like a productive approach: the relationship between hope and burnout. I haven’t really read the
There’s no avoiding it any longer: I have burned out. Burn out is not the same as overtraining, although it has direct and indirect relations with the “underperformance syndromes”. The burn out syndrome is a psychological state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. I like Maslach and Leiter’s description of it as “an erosion of
My objective in posting this very interesting drawing (unfortunately not mine, and I can’t find the author to give him credit) is to stress the reasons underlying the “construction” of each body type. In a strictly semantic perspective, both (as everything, even the sedentary body) are “body – building” – strategies that lead to the
Function is beautiful, function is sexy Read More »
