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Origins of Weightlifting

August 3, 2011 By Gregor Winter

A little history lesson.

3 Day/Week Whole Body Program with 531

August 2, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Jim Wendler has “A new take on and old favorite”. It’s a simple 3 day/week training program with that allows you to train the entire body every workout. What’s more, you can take your current 5/3/1 program and start training like this the next week. MondaySquat – 3 sets of 5-10 reps (using deload percentages)Deadlift […]

Quick Pressing Workout

August 2, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Martin Rooney from Training For Warriors has the “Doubler Workout” Challenge For Time 5 Body Weight Bench Press 10 Dips 20 Push ups I am missing some pulling in there. And maybe you can go for rounds on this one. So you might try 5 Body Weight Bench Press 10 Dips 20 Pull ups 40 […]

Naim Suleymanoglu 190kg Clean and Jerk

August 1, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Naim Suleymanoglu 190kg Clean and Jerk in the 60kg weight class. Mark Rippetoe: What you’ll see is that he takes about two or three pulses of pull in order to get his weight from his toes back onto the middle of his foot before the bar leaves the ground. In other words, he’s using those […]

Back to the Basics – The Overhead Press

July 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Don’t just bench press. Mix it up and do some overhead presses in you next workouts. Charles Poliquin has Five Great Reasons to Overhead Press Reason #1: It develops the deltoids, traps and triceps. This will save you time in the gym. Being a multi-joint exercise the overhead press works single muscle groups harder due […]

Reverse Muscle Ups in 1936 – Leon Stukelj

July 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Here is some impressive footage of Leon Stukelj (12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) on still rings at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Front Lever to Reverse Muscle Up And Inverted Iron Cross

Athletes on YouTube: cdx65

July 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Cdx65 is another example of how you can get a nice strength base performing gymnastics movements. Iron Cross pull out Solid Front Lever Back Lever One Arm Chin Up

San Francisco 49ers Weight Room Tour

July 28, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Take a look behind the scenes in the San Francisco 49ers weight room with Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Duane Carlisle. We train movements NOT muscles! He says they focus on the classic big compound movements, such as the Olympic lifts, Bench Press, Pull ups etc… Also great emphasis is laid on prehab and recovery. […]

Jim Wendler Interview

July 27, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Found this Jim Wendler audio interview by Dave Tate (direct link to mp3). Jim talks about his transition from division one football athlete to powerlifting, back to regaining his competative shape after retiring from powerlifting. What did he do correctly? focusing on basic lifts, squat, bench, deadlift, clean always read and ask questions track progress […]