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Listen up nation, we’re doing something different with this article. I’m going to be talking to you real men (and women) of fitness out there: the gym owners. In the mid-2000s, the strength and conditioning community saw a massive shift as semi-private group training facilities started popping up faster than anyone could imagine. This explosion…
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Have you ever returned home from a long day at work, feet aching, and all you can think about is kicking off your shoes and letting the dogs breathe? After changing to those house clothes, you begin rubbing the bottom of your feet and thinking, why do they hurt so much? Maybe you’re an athlete…
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Empower Your Performance. This is the mission of Power Athlete HQ. It’s mindset that trickles down from the top. Everything from the slogans on Power Athlete tees, the sets and reps John programs in the daily training programs, to the words sentences we compile together on the Power Athlete Blog are carefully crafted to help…
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Coaching is more than just a job – it’s a vocation. As such, you must be willing to make sacrifices with your time, your training, your money, and your emotions. But, here’s a news flash: making sacrifices alone won’t make you a great coach – they’re just baseline requirements that will put you in a…
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Power Athlete is built on principles, not philosophies, to drive our training and programming. If you’re like me and work with the GenPop, applying the same program looks very different from class to class and person to person. If you tried to apply the same standard to everyone, you’d be in for a rude awakening.…
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Elite weightlifters are some of the most dynamic and impressive sagittal strength athletes in the world. They display impressive speed, power, mobility, and stability with a barbell. But given all of these traits, we are left with one question: are they athletic? Before we can answer, let’s first go back to the definition of athleticism.…
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I can remember back to watching the original Rocky movie with my dad when I was just a young, chubby grade schooler, and being engrossed by Rocky Balboa’s training montage. I instantly thought to myself: ”I want to do THAT!” Like many others kids who grew up in the 1990s, I was motivated to start…
Read MoreCUSTOM EIGHT WEEK PROGRAMMING SIGN-UP FOR CUSTOM PROGRAMMING WHAT IS CUSTOM PROGRAMMING? Training with a personal touch. John Welbourn and his team will tailor bespoke programming to your specific training goals.We have only one goal for our athletes: to take them to a level of performance that they could never take themselves. No matter the…
Read MoreIn the world of performance it’s common practice for a coach to label themselves as a system guy: “I’m a conjugate guy”, “I’m an weightlifting guy”, “I’m a HITT guy”, or “I’m a flat earther guy.” Mostly the latter if you’ve ever listened to Power Athlete Radio. Either way, labeling yourself as a coach limits…
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In the world of athletics, rates of injury and re-injury continue to climb, despite the best efforts of well-intentioned rehabilitation professionals practicing evidence based medicine; the traditional adherence to “protocols” designed to get the the athlete back on the field as quickly as possible usually leads to more problems down the road. As a physical…
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