My Tangle With Tendinopathy Rob Brouillard DPT | May 08, 2024 Let's start with the stats: Male, 48, 5'9", 210 lb, 1RM for press 215 lb, bench 350 lb, squat 455 lb, dead 485 lb, and I’ve missed 500 lb six times in the past 3 years. For the past 5 years or so all I have done for exercise are the four main barbell exercises. I’m not sure why my right Achilles started hurting, but it must have started about two years ago. Maybe I was running a bit in the dog park while playing with the dog, but I had no single moment where I remember it grabbing me... Continue reading Training Isn’t a Template Carl Raghavan, SSC | April 24, 2024 Strength training is often viewed as a “program.” Is my program perfect? If not, then why even bother – right? Wrong. At first, it’s simple: show up and do the program. Walk into the weight room, follow the Starting Strength linear progression (SSLP) three days a week, and add 5lb a workout. Life is good. Becoming strong, however – really strong – is not a program, or a template, it’s a process. Continue reading Using an Exercise for Drilling or Learning Andrew Lewis, SSC | April 17, 2024 An exercise can be used as either a training tool or a learning tool. It must be clear which it is being used for, because in most cases, it cannot do both well. Exercises for training create stress which the athlete recovers from and adapts to in order to improve a physiological attribute. Exercises for learning are used short term to teach the athlete how to move his body in a way closer to ideal for a given movement or as a drill to improve accuracy and precision. Continue reading Weight Loss for the Lifter Robert Santana, PhD, RD, SSC | March 06, 2024 In a country where nearly half of the population suffers from excess adiposity, it is only reasonable that many of its citizens are interested in reversing this trend. Excess adiposity, or “fatness” as most of us know it, is a complex first world issue that has led many people towards voluntary physical activity, exercise, and training. The interplay between adiposity and strength training is one that is poorly understood in the mainstream culture. Continue reading Squats and Hills Jim Steel | December 27, 2023 Bobby had just finished up his junior year of high school, and he was looking forward to summer. For most kids Bobby’s age, summertime meant going to the beach, hanging out with friends and partying. Not for Bobby. Oh sure, he went swimming and crabbing in the Choptank River on Sundays after church let out, but for the other 6 days of the week, Bobby trained for football. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Training Isn’t a Template Carl Raghavan, SSC | April 24, 2024 Strength training is often viewed as a “program.” Is my program perfect? If not, then why even bother – right? Wrong. At first, it’s simple: show up and do the program. Walk into the weight room, follow the Starting Strength linear progression (SSLP) three days a week, and add 5lb a workout. Life is good. Becoming strong, however – really strong – is not a program, or a template, it’s a process. Continue reading Using an Exercise for Drilling or Learning Andrew Lewis, SSC | April 17, 2024 An exercise can be used as either a training tool or a learning tool. It must be clear which it is being used for, because in most cases, it cannot do both well. Exercises for training create stress which the athlete recovers from and adapts to in order to improve a physiological attribute. Exercises for learning are used short term to teach the athlete how to move his body in a way closer to ideal for a given movement or as a drill to improve accuracy and precision. Continue reading Weight Loss for the Lifter Robert Santana, PhD, RD, SSC | March 06, 2024 In a country where nearly half of the population suffers from excess adiposity, it is only reasonable that many of its citizens are interested in reversing this trend. Excess adiposity, or “fatness” as most of us know it, is a complex first world issue that has led many people towards voluntary physical activity, exercise, and training. The interplay between adiposity and strength training is one that is poorly understood in the mainstream culture. Continue reading Squats and Hills Jim Steel | December 27, 2023 Bobby had just finished up his junior year of high school, and he was looking forward to summer. For most kids Bobby’s age, summertime meant going to the beach, hanging out with friends and partying. Not for Bobby. Oh sure, he went swimming and crabbing in the Choptank River on Sundays after church let out, but for the other 6 days of the week, Bobby trained for football. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Using an Exercise for Drilling or Learning Andrew Lewis, SSC | April 17, 2024 An exercise can be used as either a training tool or a learning tool. It must be clear which it is being used for, because in most cases, it cannot do both well. Exercises for training create stress which the athlete recovers from and adapts to in order to improve a physiological attribute. Exercises for learning are used short term to teach the athlete how to move his body in a way closer to ideal for a given movement or as a drill to improve accuracy and precision. Continue reading Weight Loss for the Lifter Robert Santana, PhD, RD, SSC | March 06, 2024 In a country where nearly half of the population suffers from excess adiposity, it is only reasonable that many of its citizens are interested in reversing this trend. Excess adiposity, or “fatness” as most of us know it, is a complex first world issue that has led many people towards voluntary physical activity, exercise, and training. The interplay between adiposity and strength training is one that is poorly understood in the mainstream culture. Continue reading Squats and Hills Jim Steel | December 27, 2023 Bobby had just finished up his junior year of high school, and he was looking forward to summer. For most kids Bobby’s age, summertime meant going to the beach, hanging out with friends and partying. Not for Bobby. Oh sure, he went swimming and crabbing in the Choptank River on Sundays after church let out, but for the other 6 days of the week, Bobby trained for football. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Weight Loss for the Lifter Robert Santana, PhD, RD, SSC | March 06, 2024 In a country where nearly half of the population suffers from excess adiposity, it is only reasonable that many of its citizens are interested in reversing this trend. Excess adiposity, or “fatness” as most of us know it, is a complex first world issue that has led many people towards voluntary physical activity, exercise, and training. The interplay between adiposity and strength training is one that is poorly understood in the mainstream culture. Continue reading Squats and Hills Jim Steel | December 27, 2023 Bobby had just finished up his junior year of high school, and he was looking forward to summer. For most kids Bobby’s age, summertime meant going to the beach, hanging out with friends and partying. Not for Bobby. Oh sure, he went swimming and crabbing in the Choptank River on Sundays after church let out, but for the other 6 days of the week, Bobby trained for football. Continue reading First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Squats and Hills Jim Steel | December 27, 2023 Bobby had just finished up his junior year of high school, and he was looking forward to summer. For most kids Bobby’s age, summertime meant going to the beach, hanging out with friends and partying. Not for Bobby. Oh sure, he went swimming and crabbing in the Choptank River on Sundays after church let out, but for the other 6 days of the week, Bobby trained for football. Continue reading
