When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.” Qui-Gon Jinn, to Anakin Skywalker. Midi-chlorians are microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that live within the cells of all living beings. Since the dawn of cultural humanity, tribes and other types of societies have had healers. Today, “healer” is employed when describing traditional […]
My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovey from Chaos" – It does look like I screwed up, but I didn't: what was hurting during the exercise was NOT the left hamstring tendon origin, but other parts of the
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My recovery has been documented with short videos and comments posted on Instagram. Here you can see the whole sequence, starting from bellow. "Recovery from chaos" – or how to complicate something simple. I'm adding hip thrusts to my rehab program. First, there is ample evidence concerning its efficacy on hip extensors activation, which I
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After all, does a soft, neoprene knee sleeve have any effect over a squat, a snatch or a clean and jerk? A good orthopedist will positively tell you: from a mechanical point of view, NO. A knee sleeve offers no mechanical support. This is why it is allowed in raw (or unequipped) powerlifting competitions. A
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‘- Young man, would you care to explain to me why you are lifting those weights – Sure ma’am, no problem: this is an autotelic activity, which means those who engage in it do so motivated by a self-referenced end. In other words, the purpose of lifting is itself. Did that help? – A little
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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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GRATITUDE. What does it have to do with powerlifting or high performance? I am not sure there is an easy way to find out. Gratitude is a feeling of having been benefited by something or someone. It is also a mental habit. We take powerlifting for granted as we do most things: we take our
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I usually make a nice, inspirational ppt presentation as my personal New Year’s greetings to my friends. Somehow I just can’t: I’ve got nothing inspirational, motivational or even optimistic to say to you about 2014. This is because 2013 has been possibly one of the most difficult ones in my life. Not bad, not sad,
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Here’s the data: I won at the open and master category at my bodyweight class (132lb), broke the squat and bench press open records plus all the master records. Got close to breaking the total, far from breaking the deadlift record and close to best lifter. In terms of my personal performance and results, it
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Back to discussing pain management in powerlifting (the previous article being “No pain, no gain – the dark side of pain in powerlifting or any sport” , I bring two new items for us to chew on: first, the results of a survey I did with competitive powerlifters about their own pain management strategies. Second,
