(This article was originally published at www.elitefts.com – link below) “Your compliance will be rewarded.” (Hydra, Marvel Pictures) This article is in sequence to my previous article. Its target audience is primarily the gym owner but also health professionals working in physical training in general, sports and fitness environments, and institutions. I hope it may be a tool […]
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Cover picture from the article Senior-friendly gyms cater to baby boomers Article originally published at www.elitefts.com – link below So you have decided to open a gym. You have done some market research and you have chosen an area of the city where you have higher chances of succeeding as a business. You may or may
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I have been the president of a national powerlifting organization in a powerlifting and ethics-unfriendly country. Our organization never really grew: the corruption tradition was so strong that the IPL/USPA project could hardly be understood by people who were already lifters. Our chance were the newcomers. I didn’t have the time: I moved away. I
The beauty of team work in sports: organizing meets is a very specialized occupation Read More »
(because many of the issues we discuss concerning sports governance, politics and interpersonal relations boils down to this – take it as a warmup for a discussion about performance enhancing drugs and the hidden agendas of the war on drugs) Principles are guidelines or beliefs by which one lives one’s life, makes one’s decisions, etc.
Something about principles, right and wrong, good and evil, coherence and violence Read More »
The bar is a sacred object for the lifter. No, I’m not taking poetic license here: sacred means that something is connected to something transcendent. The loaded bar a lifter is ready to lift is sacred to the bone. Be especially watchful with the deadlift bar. It’s on the ground, you might (if you are
Never cross, step on or even approach too closely a loaded bar Read More »
1. The setup 2. The execution 3. Programming and assistance work This is the third and last part of this series on how to fix your bench press. Let us start by repeating one of my half a dozen favorite sayings in powerlifting coaching: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This said, understand
You might see some memes I publish in Portuguese that appear to be funny: you won’t know because of the language. They are sarcastic, ironic, therefore, a bit more to the left of the aggressiveness continuum. In English, you will see me using nonsense and polite irony – never open sarcastic attacks. This belongs to
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When everything and everyone else fails you, the touch of the steel bar will warm your soul: she won’t betray you. When even its touch is denied to you, the memory of the knurling in your hands and the expectation of being reunited with her will warm your soul: she won’t betray you. When you
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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. "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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This second chapter of “Recovery from Chaos” covers early April (April 2) up to April 20. It is also the period when the assessment of strength loss and injury expression is concluded. We now go into a period of addressing imbalances, which we (meaning Dani Overcash and myself) believe will be basic to enter a
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