Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Ultimate Strength Exercise

by Bill Starr

In the early sixties, a new form of strength training burst on the scene and swept across the country like wildfire…Fast forward six years. Isometrics and also the combination of isotonics and isometrics had all but disappeared from strength training in sports…[but it is] information that every serious strength athlete and coach needs to have at his disposal, because there are only a handful of people still alive who know how to do the concept correctly.

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Abs

by Mark Rippetoe

Since the basic nature of correct ab function is isometric, the exercises in which the abs perform this function will provide exercises for the abs as well. This may seem childishly apparent, yet virtually every strength coach adds extra concentric/eccentric ab work to the program anyway. The thinking must be that just squatting, deadlifting, pressing, cleaning, snatching, chins, and barbell curls – all of which involve trunk stabilization as a critical performance component – do not provide sufficient ab work by themselves. I disagree.

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