One of my lifters is doing the 100 rep burpee challenge just for fun. Here’s how it goes (as told to me). The program lasts 100 days. On the first day, you do 1 burpee. The second day, you do two burpees. The third day, you do three … This continues on up to the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Weightlifting
Your Monday Moment of Zen #4
Alan Aragon goes after Chris Shugart and defends dieticians. Here’s a vid of the Chinese College University teams training hall. It helps to support the theory that the Chinese team has never met an exercise they didn’t like: Makoto Nagano does some wild acrobatics. John Broz tells you how to transition from doing the power… Continue Reading
Review of the CrossFit/USAW Open
The first ever CrossFit/USA Weightlifting Open event is now over; my Athlete, Beth, who competed in it, is home; and I’ve spent a fair amount of time watching the replays over on the CrossFit site. Now it’s time to review what I think (and hope) the impact of this groundbreaking event will be. The contest… Continue Reading
2010 World Weightlifting Championships: 48 kilo Women
Here are 6 videos 5 videos covering the 48 kilo women’s class at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships posted by binokoron at Youtube. Women, still think weightlifting will make you look like a man? Ya, right … Part I Part II Part III Part IV … can’t seem to find this one!! Part V… Continue Reading
Review: Dan John’s “Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning.”
Author: Dan John Title: Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning On a Scale from 1 to Infinity: Infinity Seriously? It’s that good. One of my favorite books in the field of strength training is the compellation of John McCallum’s articles titled, “The Complete Keys to Progress.” I’m not exaggerating to say… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #3
This weeks random selections of great goodness: Here’s a vid of highlights of some of my lifters competing in a local contest: The Progressive Buddhist warns us about the Panic of Desire. An article describing in detail how to do a “Pendlay” Row (as opposed to a regular barbell row) and why they are likely… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #2
This week: Bret Contreras does an interview with Aaron Schwenzfeier who talks about the trend among many strength coaches to fall prey to the hypnotic effect of rehab. Good line, “Then when all a person reads is rehabilitation material, they become hypnotized to only see things through that type of lens; reading about dysfunction begins… Continue Reading
Game Theory in the Gym? OR, Do These Weightlifting Shoes Make Me Look Fat?
Some of you may not know this about me, but my graduate work is in Game Theory and the Biology of Human Behavior. Nowhere are our behavioral patterns put under the microscope more than in the gym and in relation to our exercise, diet, and fitness routines. Exercise and diet are hard work, they… Continue Reading
John Broz Video Interview
This is a 4-part interview with John Broz, coach of Average Broz gym in Las Vegas by Barry Kinsella of Weightlifting Epiphanies. John’s story is unique, but it is also something that rings true for a lot of us coaches. In order to learn what we did that makes us good at what we’re doing… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #1
Seems like there is a trend in blogging whereby bloggers will do a weekly round-up of all the stuff they were reading that fits into the scope of their own blogs, and then list them out for their own readers. Bret Crontreras does something like this at his blog, and in the evolution blogging world… Continue Reading
