fbpx

Joshua Gibson

Joshua Gibson is a strength coach and weightlifter located in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Strength and Conditioning from East Tennessee State University. His interests are most consumed by human physiology and subsequently periodization, programming, recovery, and mindset. Joshua is also a competitive weightlifter for the last 4 years, training under some of the best coaches in Ohio. He has also coached many to the platform, including both powerlifters and weightlifters. Besides directly impacting athletes through improved performance he continues to share his passion of strength through writing, podcasts, and other platforms.

Sergei Putsov on Ukrainian Weightlifting

Sergei Putsov – Five Things I Learned

Sergei Putsov has been an athlete since he was seven years old. Initially, he started by playing tennis, but having a father who was the national team coach in weightlifting, things seemed to unfold as you’d predict. By the age of fourteen, Sergei started training in weightlifting, reaching peak form nearly a decade later, going …

Sergei Putsov – Five Things I Learned Read More »

The Thigh Muscles

Fiber Typing National and World-Caliber Weightlifters

INTRODUCTION A study recently published (2019) in PLOS ONE, conducted by Serrano et al, examined the muscle phenotype of twenty-one World/Olympic and National-caliber weightlifters. The researchers aimed to establish an understanding of the fiber type profiles of elite strength/power athletes. The influence of muscle fiber types on athletic performance is well known, but data profiling …

Fiber Typing National and World-Caliber Weightlifters Read More »

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 3: APPROPRIATE REST AND RECOVERY

INTRODUCTION: RECOVER WHAT FROM WHAT In part three of our series examining the principles of programming we will be discussing appropriate rest and recovery. The principle of appropriate rest and recovery states that a stressor must be recovered from to the point of invoking an optimal amount of performance gain. This does not mean that …

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 3: APPROPRIATE REST AND RECOVERY Read More »

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 2: OVERLOAD

INTRODUCTION: DEFINING OVERLOAD In part two of the series discussing the principles of programming, the principle of focus is overload. Overload will be defined as a stimulus of sufficient intensity, duration, and frequency as such that it forces an organism to adapt (Lorenz & Morrison, 2015). The stimulus must be within the adaptive threshold of the system …

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 2: OVERLOAD Read More »

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 1 : THE ART OF SPECIFICITY

INTRODUCTION: PROGRAMMING VS PERIODIZATION   Since this is the first article in an extensive series on the principles of programming it deserves an introduction to two important concepts: programming and periodization. Most weightlifters, powerlifters, and strength athletes tend to confuse programming with periodization. According to Bompa and Buzzichelli (2015) periodization is defined as the structuring …

PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING 1 : THE ART OF SPECIFICITY Read More »