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I have had a long time to meditate on my ACL journey. It starts as a spry 18 year old kid in his senior year. The summer was coming and myself and a few friends decided to bail after lunch to go hang out at a friend’s house. He lived on the side of a…
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The Potentiation Cycle of Field Strong will lean heavily on the fundamentals of Power Athlete programming for the next six weeks. We will load up the barbell daily on this program with heavy squats and pulls, dynamic movements, plyometrics, and barbell speed work. We have some fun training techniques this cycle that prime the CNS…
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In Speed 101: Arm Swing I addressed the importance of the arm action in sprinting and how we can use isolated drills as a magnifying glass to expose and identify problems that will arise when you start having your athletes sprint. This is only part of the equation. We can’t talk about maximizing speed and…
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With the recent fitness revolution came a major realization: women are pretty badass. The gym scene had been littered with beefed up bros since cavemen started lifting stone plates but it wasn’t really until the last 15 or so years that the strong female was celebrated by everyone. Whether it is Stefi Cohen crushing a…
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Have you ever been to rehab for a patellar or Achilles tendinopathy injury before and felt like a hamster on the proverbial wheel? You show up, check in, then receive the same passive treatments of ice, heat, massage, and stretching you have done in your living room with the same bullshit 3 sets of 10,…
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A Base Level of Strength. This is what you earn for pushing heavy iron four days a week for 20 to 30 weeks. But once that journey comes to an end, where do you go from there? @Carl filled us in on what it takes to get started on Field Strong. And if you’ve got…
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In March 2014 Power Athlete launched their flagship program, aptly named Field Strong, and being a Power Athlete follower since 2009, I naturally jumped onboard. Field Strong was new and different in that it allowed @John the ability to dial in and constantly evolve the programming; he knew an invested group of loyal followers were…
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Field Strong is not a beginner program. Don’t look at that as a knock. If you have not made your way through a linear progression via Bedrock, you are a beginner. Don’t make my mistake! Spend the 21 weeks it takes to hit three resets on Back Squat and Deadlift and add 100 or so…
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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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The benefits of Olympic weighting and its transfer to sport are well documented. Any time an athlete can perform a movement that allows them to move dynamically it is a huge plus. If you can add weight to that movement, things can get exciting very quickly. However, there are many coaches and athletes that believe…
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