Zen Quote of the Month: “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” — Muhammad Ali This Month in the World of Weightlifting Nick Horton got married! We said, “I do”, we roller skated, we drank a lot of vodka. … Continue Reading
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Your Monday Moment of Zen #15
Zen quote of the week: “The word “Dinner” actually comes from the Latin disjejunare, meaning "to un-fast” or break the fast of the evening. Remarkably, the word was contracted in the Romance languages to ‘disnare’ or ‘disner’ in Olde French, or dinner in English. Thus the word dinner actually means ‘breakfast’.” – Brad Pillon This… Continue Reading
Happy Birthday to Me: Reflections on Lifting, Coaching, and the Pre-Masters Class
Today’s my Birthday, I just turned 33. And as we are all wont to do, it got me thinkin’ on things. In my case, those things that are related to lifting and coaching. (I really could have split this into two parts, easily … but what the hell!) I’ll start with the lifting. One of… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #9 – Happy New Year!
This week in the world of weightlifting: Riley Charlish, a talented High School Basketball Player that I’m strength coaching, was mentioned in a couple articles in the local papers here and here, because of his performance with his High School B-ball team, the Roughriders. He also got a shoutout at Oregonlive.com. The Iron Samurai made… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #6
This week in the world of weightlifting: Peter Curcio, one of my own lifters, snatches bodyweight for the first time … after some EPIC misses. Luckily, we got it all on video. (And, yes, that silly laugh in the background is me – read my happiness article on that topic). On the first miss, he… Continue Reading
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
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
Weightlifting World Team Announced
USA Weightlifting has announced the world team for 2010. Here’s the list of people representing the US in Antalya Turkey from September 17th till the 26th. This years worlds, and next years will determine the number of “slots” or people we get to have in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. So, it ain’t no… Continue Reading
Strength Plus Magazine – July Issue!
Another great issue of Strength+ magazine is out. You can go here to download it. Inside are articles on the 2010 Nationals, including the Burgener couple making the world team. (As a side note, I was sad not to see Oregon’s Sarah Bertram not making the team, but that’s another story.) The issue also has… Continue Reading
The Evolution of a Weight Training Routine
In Bob Takano’s recent newsletter mailing he has a piece about the fact that he’s been seeing a lot of WOD (workout of the day) designed for weightlifters. He’s worried that the structure of these are often not going to get weightlifters where they want to go, that is, it ain’t specific enough to the… Continue Reading
