Search results

A quick drive-by to answer this. The stunting of growth and hormone interference that people seem to worry about with strength training is not backed up by any mechanistic or epidemiological literature. HOWEVER There is a big problem when parents hyper-specialise their children into an...

Your core and your legs. Primarily, your problem is not moving the bar at the speed of the weakest link in the chain, i.e. your quads (probably). Be patient with your reps.

We can, although mine are currently gathering dust since their ban from IPF comps :(

I would like this, but you have way too much meat on your calves for us to be on the same team.

Just stopping by to say that I hate this thread with a passion as hot as my grundle on a warm day. Pls delet this

Of course running can cause harm, to deny that declares ones ignorance of basic kinesiology. That doesn't mean running should be avoided, but it does mean that feet/knees/hips/core need to hit some minimum standards before you start. There does seem to be a lot of conformation bias with...

ART is great, but you can do similar things on your own. There are about a billion ideas buried in the mobility thread, but most useful things will involve self-myofascial release and contract/relax cycles in stretching. It's perfectly fine to experience pain with myofascial release, but with...

From the ashes... Right chaps, I wanted to share with you what I consider to be the biggest development in the industry since everyone started bringing foam rollers and lacrosse balls to the gym. It is genuinely a game changer. This is only going to be a brief post, but feel free to add other...

:-* There are very few people that I actually find interesting; honestly there are people who post on here who know more (mrthingyx included, of course) than the vast majority of self styled coaches/experts. It doesn't help that with powerlifting in particular that people are happy to call...

He's actually pretty good, despite what you'd expect from the branding/image.

Most social media lifting people are insufferable parrots of poorly understood original content. I follow a few athletes and a couple of people in the industry who occasionally post interesting material. Alan Thrall used to be ok, but he seems to have become a starting strength zombie.

Just skimming through and seeing a few mentions of people adding load to their "rotator cuff" exercises. This kind of hints that you're completely missing the point of the exercises. The rotator cuff consists of several tiny muscles. Adding load simply requires that the bigger muscles in the...

I'm not sure what they are doing now tbh, although I was telling one of them he still needed to be doing various things. One can only do so much ;) That guidance is from a website put together by someone who probably knows very little about programming. The often parroted advice is that you...

I hope it works out for you, honestly. It's a pretty standard pattern, people have either plateaued for a while or have been injured and are keen to work hard to get back to previous numbers. Don't let frustration and impatience lead to poor judgement. As a side note, some inexperienced...

Toe dipping ;)

It's a matter of weighing up the costs/benefits. At best it amounts to spending your time on a sub-optimal programme, at worst you'll **** your **** up. Firstly, any advanced programme should only really be done if your training age is also advanced (or close to it). There are a lot of adaptive...

Have you ever read a masters thesis for a sports scientist? Yeah... not necessarily an indicator of great wisdom (although I'm sure the majority are brilliant and lovely). Unless you're on the ol' jooce, 200g of protein is just an expensive way of getting the same calories (and even then, it...

You did a total of 7 reps before a PB attempt? Please tell me you warmed up in some other way too.

It helps less the more upright you are, and then each uprightedness angle contains a subset of people's abilities/dysfunctions. Also, good to see squatting awesome again :)