What’s a warm-up?
Previously, before the explosion of the fitness industry, via the internet, warm-ups could be broken down, simply as; Increasing your heart-rate to pump blood to the muscles. Loosening your muscles and joints, getting them warm, mobile, activated and stretched to better range. Nowadays, more and more people are campaigning their advanced versions of a warm-up, from prescribing [...]
Back Squats Are NOT Necessary
…when you’ve come to a point where you’re that strong. The issue I see, with many individuals or forums, that are of the Youtube generation, where the first video of a lift they say, was a powerlifter squatting huge, is the immense emphasis on back squats. It’s like, when I read what lifters are concerned [...]
Why I squat with my eyes down or forward, head flat
I’m on a quest to figure out why some people like myself, Eduardo Guadamud (310KG x 2), Sergiy Fedosienko (280KG), Misha Koklayev (310KG x 3), Ronnie Coleman squat much much better looking forward or down with a flatter back. While some guys like Jiri Orsag (300KG)…wait hold on, 90% of the videos on Youtube are [...]
A very simple, easy to use 6 week routine to boost your lifts.
We’ve used this for presses, weighted chins and dips, squats. Week 1: 70% 1RM x 4 x 8 Week 2: 75% 1RM x 5 x 8 Week 3: 80% 1RM x 5 x 5 Week 4: 85% 1RM x 5 x 5 Week 5: 90% 1RM x 3 x 3 Week 6: 95% 1RM x [...]
Usage of odd lifts to improve classic lifts.
One of the most difficult things for many weightlifters out there, is reject the comfort zone. The comfort zone of movements they know and believe will have the biggest carry over to their competition lifts. Allow me the luxury of explaining. The first thing we learn, is something we implant into our memory and thought [...]
Why Pause Squats?
I LOVE goheavy.com It’s got so many people there, discussing weightlifting and why they SHOULDN’T be doing an exercise. In this case, the pause squats Read this; http://goheavy.com/forums/olympic/index.cgi/noframes/read/525222 It just makes me so so very confused on why anybody would think that, getting stronger is a bad thing. Especially when you’re competing in a strength [...]
