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Eccentrics to Reduce Pain
When training for almost anything, you are likely to experience sore joints. Repetitive stress, muscle imbalances, deficits in mobility, faulty movement patterns, tissue recovery rates, etc. can all contribute to inflammation and pain. Does this sound complicated? Not...
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3 Pulls and Two Phases of Weightlifting
Breaking things down is a great way to get a better understanding of Olympic weightlifting. All of the movement during a snatch and clean is determined by the physics of motion and gravity. Wrapping your brain around what is actually happening is essential when you...
What’s the Point?
I was having a conversation with a friend involved in partner acrobatics about lifting weights. He has a background in sports and athletics, so I asked him if he still lifts weights. His response surprised me. The basic summary was that he didn’t lift weights anymore,...
A Novel Approach to Longevity
Growing old can happen at any age. The more time we spend doing the same things, the more atrophied our brains become to the things we don’t do. This includes both physical and mental capacities. A rigid and closed system prevents the brain from adapting and the body...
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Two fundamental ways we can make improvements in our fitness are through physical adaptations and technical improvements, or neurological adaptations. Physical adaptations require hard work, fortitude and pushing through discomfort and pain. Neurological adaptations...
Breathing for Gainz
Several years ago a good friend of mine, who was also a psychiatrist, was getting into meditation. We would often spend hours in the gym drawing diagrams of neurotransmitters on my gym’s whiteboard and talking about the effects of training on the brain after the final...
Implicit vs Explicit Learning
A quality coach athlete relationship facilitates learning from two sides. From one direction the coach teaches the athlete directly, on the other end the athlete assimilates this information into their own framework. The process layers on itself to gradually build...