No, you shouldn’t. Now you ask: “so how are we supposed to benefit from what obviously only digital video sharing can do, which is to understand how the outstanding athletes get there?” So here’s some interesting news: they don’t post their maxes. Most of them will only post competition videos (with maxes, of course) or […]
Training and the digital midia: should you post your maxes for everyone to see? Read More »
Yes, because there’s good stress. Good stress is manageable, predictable stress. There is, there must be some stress when you are just about to get under a loaded bar with over 85% or 90% of your presumed maximum. There is obviously stress related to preparing for the potentially infinite amount of unpredictable factors at play
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O grupo LEVANTAMENTOS DE PESO é um fórum para discussão de treinamento dos levantamentos de peso básico (POWERLIFTING) e olímpico (WEIGHTLIFTING) em todos os contextos, sejam eles na preparação esportiva para modalidades diversas, na preparação esportiva específica (nestes dois esportes) ou no condicionamento geral. Também se destina a discussão dos esportes de levantamento, suas conquistas
Novo grupo do Facebook: LEVANTAMENTOS DE PESO Read More »
I’m back from an intense weekend of training and teaching. Joel Fridman and I developed the first WEIGHTLIFTS program in the country and this was its first edition. For more than one year, we discussed this project. We believed the five weightlifts (snatch, clean and jerk, squat, bench press and deadlift) are complementary, basic to any
Weightlifts – a new (old) perspective and our first training program on it Read More »
Cheguei em casa agora. Preciso comer, tomar banho, dar um jeito na minha lombar sofrida, mas eis aqui meu “press release” minimalista, antes de uma reflexão mais longa no blog. Este fim de semana, dias 16 e 17 de julho de 2012, Joel Fridman (CrossFit Brasil ) e eu demos o primeiro curso de LEVANTAMENTOS DE
A era dos levantamentos de peso Read More »
Oi Alex, não sei se eu consigo escrever hoje o que eu queria sobre o tema, que outro dia a Vevê Mambrini abordou. A elite simbólica (sim, a gente, gostemos ou não) tem preconceito linguístico, sempre. Ainda que muito corretamente procure reprimir o mesmo, aplicar uma boa dose de construtivismo em cima, invocar os deuses da relatividade e
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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 »
Uma nota sobre arbitragem esportiva: 1. Árbitros com nível muito baixo de educação formal, sem capacidade de compreender elementos básicos de anatomia, não podem fazer bom julgamento em esportes como powerlifting. 2. Arbitragem aleatória, com movimentos invalidados sem que ninguém que conheça bem o esporte consiga entender o critério do árbitro para invalidar, desqualificam o
Nota rápida sobre rigor na arbitragem 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 »
