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Just kidding, they do, but if you’re basing you or your clients’ training off percentages of a 1 Repetition Max (RM) you may be wasting everybody’s time. That’s assuming that your goal is to increase maximal strength and power. Claiming that weight lifting percentages don’t work is far fetched. @Cali did a great job showing…
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Competition sees a multitude of emotions; contempt for an opponent, empathy towards teammates, and of course, the exhilaration of victory, but no emotion affects performance more than fear. Fear can be a great motivator. Often analogized with mental toughness, fortitude, or grit, a sense of fear often means something important is about to happen, presenting an…
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Concussions are a serious immediate and long term concern for every athlete participating in field sports from football to lacrosse, and even in sports that don’t condone contact like soccer and baseball. We’ve developed a set of protocols that need to be a part of every athlete’s training regime. The only true prevention practice for a concussion…
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We preach a lot about abandoning superficial numerical goals however, the idea of training for a specific number or benchmark is not entirely bad. In fact, on it’s own, it can be highly motivating. It’s when the training becomes so blatantly skewed in a way that the main emphasis becomes the benchmark, rather than performance,…
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In the first part of the Lactic Acid and Training series, Power Athlete shed some light on the theories behind the effects and purpose of lactic acid in the body. The scientific search for answers continues, but the strength and conditioning world cannot afford to wait for a clear answer! Our athlete’s are on the clock,…
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