athlete – Marilia Coutinho

Bitching in Powerlifting: Structural, historical and social-economic determinants

In the past two months I collected – involuntarily and under protest – a huge number of examples of what is widely known as “bitching” in powerlifting related social media topics, threads, discussions, pictures and videos. Bitching refers to the act of complaining. It brings with it all the other negative meanings of the word […]

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The revenge of the machines

lesões, powerlifting, recovery / Por wpunl

There is some evidence from the literature concerning widespread pain and local soreness caused by inactivity. Whether these have any physiological relation with the inactivity soreness athletes feel when a few days to some weeks without training is unclear.

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The journaling effect

Sem categoria / Por wpunl

The week before, my friend and nutritionist Rodolfo Peres asked me to send him my diet journal. Not surprisingly, the day I created the journal spreadsheet and started recording data, my eating habits changed dramatically and very soon I noticed I had lost weight. I did not measure it, but probably mostly fat tissue –

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