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 …
Intro Glenn Pendlay, aka The People’s Coach, will forever be enshrined as one of the most impactful figures in weightlifting over the last three decades. His passing may have signaled an end to his coaching career, but will never cease the influence he continues to have on the sport and many of the athletes and …
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Spencer Arnold of Power and Grace Performance is on the rise in the weightlifting world. From someone who started as an undersized athlete and eventually became an American Open champion in the 69kg class (2012), multiple time medalist at USAW Nationals, and coach to some of the best weightlifters in the world (e.g. Harrison Maurus, …
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 …
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This is a series in which we will attempt to collect, reflect on, and make sense of the great information given to us by the growing number of coaches and athletes we have interviewed on the podcast. You can see the rest of the series here Before we dig into exactly what I learned, a …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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