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The challenge of fixing what should never have been spoiled: organizing the National Strength Alliance (powerlifting organization)

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 […]

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Why do athletes do stupid things right before the contest? Part 1

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

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Formolatria: por que eu fico inventando palavras e expressões

Por que eu fico inventando termos e expressões? Por que chamar de alienação corporal uma condição que já era confortavelmente chamada de “separação mente-corpo”? Por que inventar essa, agora, da formolatria? Em primeiro lugar, porque a língua é dinâmica. Nenhum idioma é um acervo de vocábulos de onde o usuário recolhe os que vai usar

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It gets better and better: the surreal response from the IPF international

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 <Emanuel.Scheiber@powerlifting-ipf.com>wrote: Dear

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The innocent unauthorized use of my image on a poster – layers of conflict in powerlifting politics and ethical procedure

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

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Losing hope

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

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Being burnt out

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

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O caso “Panico, panicats versus Strongman” : considerações (quase) finais

Hoje é o “the day after”: o dia seguinte à publicação, pelo UOL, através de mais uma excelente matéria de Bruno Freitas, do posicionamento da comunidade esportiva quanto à apropriação, pelo programa “Panico na TV”, do esporte STRONGMAN para criação de um episódio humorístico. O episódio aconteceu, foi consumido, a comunidade observou, se posicionou, se

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Curso: Strongman e treinamento com objetos alternativos

62 – STRONGMAN E TREINAMENTO COM OBJETOS ALTERNATIVOS Profª. Drª. Marilia Coutinho 29/07/2012 , Domingo – 08h00 à 17h00 Introdução Bases Históricas   Do Strongman Do treinamento com objetos alternativos Por que é tão completo? bases conceituais   O que são capacidades funcionais Os tipos de força Os tipos de gesto cotidiano, ocupacional e esportivo

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