Weightlifting takes a load off a CEO's mind

[oscar231]

From the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/weigh...ind-1417460386

(It may be behind a paywall, but you may try googling "For Chris Mittelstaedt, lifting weights is").

Any thoughts about his routine, coach? (Or about his weightlifting gloves?)

[Mark Rippetoe]

He's got the wrong coach.

[TwoFours]

I hate seeing crappy workouts like this make it into the mainstream media. especially something as widely read as the journal. 2 steps forward, 3 steps back, ey? i assume his 315 4 x 10 bench is being moved less than 5 inches.

[Sean Herbison]

He's got the wrong coach.

I agree.

For instance Mr. Leung taught him to relax his shoulders during pull-ups and not bend his elbows past a 90-degree angle when bench-pressing 135 pounds or more.

So I wonder how much he can actually bench.

But wait, there's more:

To work his core, he uses a kettlebell, which he swings between his legs and switches hands in a figure eight motion. Rounding out his session are triceps exercises and, while standing on a balance board, biceps curls with 35 pound dumbbells. He reduces the weight as he does more sets.

And:

On those days, his main goal is four sets of 10 reps at a maximum of 315 pounds.

I'm assuming they're still talking about bench, and I want to see this.

[Scott Jenkins]

This is my favorite part:

"For instance Mr. Leung taught him to relax his shoulders during pull-ups and not bend his elbows past a 90-degree angle when bench-pressing 135 pounds or more."

Heaven forbid you get a full ROM. If he did that though, he couldn't say he benched 315 pounds.

[Adam Skillin]

If he did that though, he couldn't say he benched 315 pounds.

He could still say it. It wouldn't be less true.

[hollismb]

Not one mention of the squat or deadlift. Every day is bench day, huh?

[Christopher Button]

How is it that I, a mere novice, can tell when an ostensibly more experienced coach is promulgating Silly Bullshit? How is this is even possible?

[novicejay]

How is it that I, a mere novice, can tell when an ostensibly more experienced coach is promulgating Silly Bullshit? How is this is even possible?

This is what I posted in another thread about that exact question:

Since I've been through a million coaches doing martial arts, I wanted to tell some of my fellow BJJ & Judo & MMA people on here how to know when you have a good Coach. This quote below is from Coach Rippetoe's article on t-nation and it is almost EXACTLY why my current martial arts instructor says. I'm not sure where my martial arts instructor learned this but I find it FASCINATING that he is a martial arts Coach and Coach Rippetoe is a weightlifting Coach and they've both come to the same conclusion.

Here's the quote:

Anaerobic endurance, like most team sports employ and the kind of thing team conditioning work develops, is an almost pointless activity after a short period of time. Once it is established, and for every field position regardless of the precise demands of the conditioning requirement for that position, field practice and performance maintains it quite effectively.

Lineman, forward, or goalie, if you're practicing the sport and performing the sport in competition, you're not only "in shape" for the sport, you're using the precise skills you need to develop under exactly the metabolic conditions they'll be used.
This process can be efficiently accelerated for a week or two at the beginning of the season for unconditioned, lazy athletes who show up out of shape, because conditioning comes on fast. And it doesn't go away as long as you keep doing it.
After that, it's pretty much just grandstanding. Sprints, sleds, calisthenics, and trendy CrossFit couplets are easy to coach, stopwatches and whistles look awfully coach-like, and your already-talented athletes derive no skill improvement from what is necessarily a low-skill high-intensity work exposure – if it is high-skill, you can't display the skill component with a 190 heart rate and maximum respiration rate. And they're already in shape, because they got that way almost immediately.

[Bolson32]

(Or about his weightlifting gloves?)

I couldn't get past that.......And the bench bridge dumbell fly thing....