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Is the first experience of the new members to your gym’s culture a box ticking coach blindly following some onboarding program to push a square peg through a round hole? We need to change that right now if it is. Where is the individuality? Where is the impact?! Where is the empowerment?! Nothing fires us…
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We get asked this age old question all the time: How much rest should we get between sets? If you’re in the camp that goes by what feels right, you’ve done nothing wrong. Perhaps you subscribe to 3-5 minutes that has been handed down by generations of lifters. Or, you simply get back after it when you…
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We at Power Athlete have declared war on the bullshit in the strength and conditioning world. Lately, I’ve been seeing athletes and training sites showing off new resistance toys they’re convinced will increase speed and improve sport performance. Athletes, in your world, these tools will do more harm than good, as it will adversely affect sport…
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While some bodybuilders may happen to be firefighters, the inverse is nowhere close to true: not all firefighters are bodybuilders. But, should firefighters be considered athletes? This has been a hot debate over the last few years in the tactical trainer world. While they aren’t playing for points on a field, they are using their…
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For roughly the past 6 months, my team and I have been buried away in our lab testing out various protocols for enhancing performance, boosting metabolic health, and improving cognition. I guess its no surprise that when we finally emerged (it’s Summer 2023 now), the hot topic that has resurfaced is supplementation. I shouldn’t be…
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Empowering coaches to Be The Hammer. A special episode as we pull Power Athlete founder & CEO, John Welbourn’s presentation from the 2022 Power Athlete Coach Collective entitled, Lessons From Antiquity. John leans on his experience as a classically trained rhetorician and decades going to battle with the bullshit in the world of sports performance…
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Take People Where They Cannot Take Themselves Coach Mike Boyle is easily one of the most entertaining guests we’ve had on Power Athlete Radio, ever. He has no problem battling the bullshit on social media and calls out so-called coaching “influencers” daily…that is…if he can find the time. If you visit Mike’s Instagram page [@michael_boyle1959]…
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Low Hanging Fruit for Fat Loss and Building Muscle When you’re pushed nutrition advice, we want you to ask yourself one question, “Who benefits?”. All the tools to weight loss and building muscle are at the grocery store, are very heavy, and involve moving dirt one day at a time. John and Tex go the…
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M.O.V.E Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending the second annual Power Athlete Block One Coach Collective. Like the name suggests, once a year Block One coaches from all over the world (literally) descend on Power Athlete HQ in Austin, Texas for a weekend of laughs, barbecue, and of course, face melting knowledge…
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Anyone familiar with the Power Athlete Methodology has heard the crew say, “Train Fast, Be Fast”. This statement lays the foundation for one of Power Athlete’s Coaching Principles: Compensatory Acceleration (CAT). Originally popularized by the International Sports Science Association (ISSA)-co-founder Fred Hatfield (aka Dr. Squat), CAT is when a lifter accelerates a barbell at maximal…
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