Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Now here is something to watch on your weekend. Kelly Starrett did a talk in the Health at Google series. Titled "Deskbound", he talks about what prolonged periods of sitting does to our bodies and how we can fight that evil. Basically, the … [Continue reading]
Made a Meatza (aka the paleo pizza) today. It looks fancy but was super simple to made. Basically a pizza with meat instead of dough covered with all your favorite veggies. Update: Here is another version (not paleo schmeleo) ground turkey … [Continue reading]
So, what better way to start the week off right than with lots of creative calisthenics exercises - front levers, muscle ups, back levers in all variations, performed everywhere possible? Non-stop bodyweight exercises. No gimmicks, just hard work … [Continue reading]
On my YouTube channel I regularly get asked about how to mount gymnastics rings to the ceiling. So here is how I installed mine. This is a 12mm diameter o-ring bolt. It reaches ~100mm into the reinforced concrete ceiling. I drilled a 14mm hole … [Continue reading]
Over at Starting Strength, Mark Rippetoe put up an excellent video explaining the details of the Romanian deadlift. I really learned a lot from this. Here are my notes from the video. Why is the Romanian deadlift an important … [Continue reading]
Post workout power naps are awesome. I do them after extra hard workouts after I had my post workout shake/meal. You can optimize them significantly by inhibiting light from hitting your visual and audio sensors. Therefore I use a sleeping mask … [Continue reading]
You know how you sometimes stop doing exercises and you slowly begin to forget about them? Especially in gymnastics / bodyweight training, where there are literally hundreds thousands of exciting exercises available, this happened to me more than … [Continue reading]
After reading the WSJ article about the Bulgarian method yesterday, I remembered that I had read something about it in the "Science and Practice of Strength Training" by Vladimir Zatsiorsky. Here is the excerpt: Bulgarian athletes have several … [Continue reading]
'You lift more, train more, you get higher results.' - Ivan Abadjiev The Bulgarian Method of Olympic Weightlifting training is once again in mainstream media. Today the Wall Street Journal runs an article called about it. "Heavy Lifting, No Rest, … [Continue reading]