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Weight training, Health, Injuries and rehabilitation

SHOULD OLDER PEOPLE DEADLIFT?

Hugo Noya Enríquez / April 20, 2026

There’s a lot of bad information out that saying deadlifts are bad for you. They’re not. Starting Strength coach Rusty from the Wichita Falls Athletic Club has an 82 year old client who does deadlifts. If his 82 year old can get in there and deadlift, you can. Deadlifts aren’t bad for you. Not deadlifting is bad for you. Deadlifting with bad technique is bad for you. Everybody that says the juice isn’t worth the squeeze with deadlifts, they just don’t know how to coach a deadlift. That’s bad information.

Health, Gymnastics and calisthenics

LEARN THE SHOULDER ROLL BEFORE YOU FALL

Hugo Noya Enríquez / October 22, 2025

Falling is one of the most common causes of injury as we age. That´s why learning how to roll safely can significantly reduce impact, protect your head and neck, and even save your life. In this post, I´ll show you how Carl Paoli teaches people the shoulder roll. The shoulder roll is a diagonal rolling pattern that teaches your body how to redirect force away from the spine and head. And why does this matter?:

Health, Injuries and rehabilitation, Weight training

USING THE LEG PRESS TO BUILD STRENGTH TO SQUAT

Hugo Noya Enríquez / October 5, 2025

In this post I´m going to explain how the leg press can be used to incrementally load a new trainee to develop the leg strength needed to squat.
A leg press machine is one of the most constant features of commercial gyms all over the world. Everybody’s got a leg press machine because it allows big strong guys to move hundreds and hundreds of pounds over a short range motion, and accomplished very little in terms of accumulating leg strength. Starting Strength coaches don’t use it for that. The leg press machine at Wichita Falls Athletic Club is used for a very specific purpose. It is used for a detrained population that comes into the gym with insufficient strength to do an actual bodyweight squat. If you can’t do a bodyweight squat, we’ve got to have a way to get you to where you can. They’ve used various approaches to this before: partial squats and continually add to the range of motion at the bottom. But the most foolproof way that they have found to do this is with the use of a leg press machine.

Health, Injuries and rehabilitation, Rest and recovery

HOW TO PREVENT SOFT TISSUE INJURIES

Hugo Noya Enríquez / September 24, 2025

Tony Holler is a track and field coach and a football and basketball physical trainer. He works at Plainfield North High School. He is also a member of the Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and co-director of the Track Football Consortium with Chris Korfist. Tony Holler is the author of the “Feed the Cats” training method. In this post, you’ll learn the key considerations every athlete or coach should know to prevent soft tissue injuries (muscles, tendons, and ligaments).

Track and field, Exercise physiology, Health

THE 7 GREAT BENEFITS OF SPRINTING BASED ON SCIENCE

Hugo Noya Enríquez / August 16, 2025

Today we’re going to be covering the top 7 benefits of sprinting based on science.
BENEFIT #1 – MUSCLE GROWTH
Sprinting is a type of anaerobic exercise. Anaerobic means it does not require oxygen. This is true for sprinting, jumping and heavy weightlifting. All of which build strength and muscle mass.

Health, Food

LEARNING HEALTHY HABITS WITH PHIL HUGO

Hugo Noya Enríquez / July 19, 2025

In this post, I want to highlight a very interesting episode of the Wall Street Wolverine podcast, which I recommend you follow because they typically interview very unique people from whom you learn a lot. In this case, the guest is Phil Hugo, a pharmacist and expert in nutrition and health habits. The first time I listened to this interview, I learned a lot from it, and almost a year later, I felt compelled to listen to it again to review it and share with you all the information I will share below. It’s worth noting that everything I’m about to share related to nutrition and health concerns both the general population and those of us who are passionate about athletic performance. We can’t forget that having good health habits is part of what is known as “invisible training”, which helps us prevent injuries and illnesses and also help us enjoy a longer athletic career, performing at the highest level.

Weight training, Health, Injuries and rehabilitation, Physical preparation

HOW SHOULD YOU WARM UP FOR PULL UPS OR CHIN UPS?

Hugo Noya Enríquez / January 7, 2025

Pull ups and chin ups are a strength exercise performed with one’s own body weight that should be included in any athlete’s strength training, regardless of whether they train for competitive purposes or to improve and maintain physical fitness. This fabulous self-loading exercise helps us strengthen our back, improve our body posture and develop general strength levels, especially in the upper body.

Health, Supplementation

GLYCINE: THE AMINO ACID THAT HELPS YOU PROTECT YOUR JOINTS

Hugo Noya Enríquez / December 31, 2024

Joint supplements are quite relevant among athletes, especially among the more experienced ones. The reason for their consumption is due to the load that the joints are subjected to during actions such as running, sprinting, sudden braking, jumping, throwing or hitting, leaving an impact on the cartilage in the form of wear.

Biomechanics, Health, Martial arts

FALLING (UKEMI) IN JUDO AND AIKIDO: WHY SHOULD YOU LEARN TO FALL?

Hugo Noya Enríquez / October 20, 2024

Although falls are not accidents that happen to us every day, the risk of falling always exists and can happen at any time and when least expected.
Falls from an already considerable intensity can produce the following effects:

– They can leave after-effects that permanently incapacitate someone from develop a certain profession or other types of activities in their daily lives.

– They represent high economic losses for companies as a result of sick leave, and also represent a great cost to the public health system.

– And some can even cause death.

Kinesiology, Health

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POSTERIOR MUSCLE CHAIN

Hugo Noya Enríquez / July 13, 2024

When performing a movement, the muscles of our body act in the form of kinetic chains. But what is a kinetic chain? We understand the kinetic chain as each part of the body (including muscles, joints and nerves), which is related together to produce a certain movement of the bones. There are several ways to classify kinetic chains and one of them is: