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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    There is a significant context that cannot be ignored regarding actual age and training age. All the masters aged guys who start lifting here progress around the same rate as the guys in their teens. Both populations are equally unadapted. When I used to work in aged care rehab even the 90 year...
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    PTC version 2.0

    It bodes the question; if this isn't enough to be put a halt to, then what is? If this is what ends up on youtube then what goes on there that isn't fit to put on youtube and be broadcast to the planet. I think the clip pretty much speaks for itself. Rory it seems has not been coached to...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    Markos, I'm interested in your thinking behind the conditioning/metcon work coming before starting the strength program?
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    Why I dont deload my lifters

    Nothing is better just because it is newer or older. There is only more efficient and less efficient. Only better is better. The point I made about the civil war in exercise we are currently experiencing is about keeping the fight up against snake oil salesmanship and pseudoscience. That's...
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    Why I dont deload my lifters

    I too await Oliver's response. Markos, for a thread that started as a statement on why you avoid deloading lifters and instead try to train around plateaus by prescribing similar movements with transferable training effects, it has now evolved into an attack on modernity. There seems to be a...
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    Why I dont deload my lifters

    I think the method of deloading or resetting newbie lifters is largely there to accommodate three stuff ups of the lifter. -That the lifter didn't allow themselves to adapt because they didnt get enough rest or food. -That they aren't concentrating on lifting the barbell well enough and their...
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    PTC, do I stay or do I go?

    Markos, only you know the value to you of what you have grown to this point and what it means to change it. My only recommendation is that you prepare yourself now for more of the kind of lifting behavior you dont like in gyms because you are going from total control to less than total control...
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    Why I dont deload my lifters

    Whoa, this thread has turned into frankenstein's monster. Not only is deloading poorly defined here but so is softcockin. If deloading and softcockin are lifting submaximally with disregard to bar speed then that training time could probably be better spent. To me, that is not what deloading...
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    For anyone interested in meeting Phillip Heath....

    Here is a link to how it went yesterday.... BODY BUILDING AND LAUNDROMATS | shirespeedandstrength.com.au
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    It seems to me that the first football institution that can actually get serious about teaching their players how to get strong and fast will very quickly crush the other teams. Getting that to happen is another story, as it requires a gentle balance of inspiration, belligerence, education...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    The assistant S & C coach for the local team's junior development program came in last night. As we worked up to a grand total of 80kg on the deadlift for sets of 5 and 30kg in the overhead press it struck me that this really is arse backwards. I commend the guy on seeking out lifting skills...
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    Bench press pad widths

    When I bought a bench from our good friend Adrian at Gymdirect I noticed that it had a bench pad that was narrow at the top end (25cm) and wide at the bottom (30cm). A strange design to me, as if you wanted more support for your fat arse than for your broad shoulders, it certainly looked very...
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    Sydney Powerlifting Comp

    PL, OL, Strongman and Highland Games could all be on the cards in the near future. We shall see. Sunday was first comp.... plenty of time to see where future opportunities may take us.
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    Sydney Powerlifting Comp

    Harry's 225kg deadlift was another highlight for me. I predict a 500lb deadlift and 400lb squat at the next meet for him, there's plenty left in that squat.... especially now that I awarded him with some alligator testicle protein powder for his impressive effort yesterday. Tentatively, I'm...
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    Sydney Powerlifting Comp

    We had a lot of fun here today, i thought I would post the results. I was pretty happy with the turn out considering how many gym lifters are in season with their sport right now. All lifters competed Raw under WPC rules. LIFTER--- BODY WEIGHT-- SQUAT-- BENCH-- DEADLIFT-- TOTAL-- WILKS...
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    Compare, Contrast & Analyse with Dartfish

    I was first introduced to this software at the 2005 ASC National Conference in Sydney. I couldn't afford it then and I cant afford it now and have had to put up with using various cameras, hand held and phone aps since then. I've used cameras when coaching OL, PL, Gymnastics, Track and Field and...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    Speaking in general and anecdotal terms, it seems that football players in Australia, (Union, League, AFL) are performing workouts, structured and unstructured, that do include compound barbell movements but they are littering these workouts with a variety of other exercises that are obstructing...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    In the short term, just the introduction of compound barbell movements is going to be better than what occurs now. The programming of the lifting and the bio-energetics of the sport will become more important after the first problem is solved. That first problem is barbell competency. The best...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    There is a few people who need to have the finger pointed at for some of 'all this mess'. I'm not sure if I would summarize the problem exactly as you have Silverback. This link talks about Dr Ziegler's role in dianabol being brought to the USA. I dont think the eastern bloc countries got good...
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    Strength & Conditioning for footballers

    Not so much at the NFL level but at the college level players of superior athletic skill but questionable football skills will be given a chance. Only thing we can do is change it as best we can with the athletes we encounter, its always very hard to resist being as belligerent as possible...
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