Today we’re going to talk about a fairly common occurrence. What do you do about your training when things are not optimal? What concessions do you make when things are not going like they’re supposed to? Some examples of this would include:
Injuries like you’ve got an elbow that’s hot.
A little tendonitis in the elbow extensor stuff.
You’ve got a knee, a hip or low backs bothering you.
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.
How can you apply stress with pulls to train strength and balance when stability issues are present? In this post I´m going to show you a way that Starting Strength coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, Carmen Phillips, uses to set up in the rack to get the job done.
What do you do when injuries and structural changes make it so that holding the bar in the squat is limiting? In this post I´ll show a couple options that Rusty and Carmen, both coaches at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, use so that their clients can still train the squat. Coaches Rusty and Carmen are always dealing, especially in the morning, with a bunch of retirees and they come with different types of issues that both have to overcome to get people to squat.
We’re going to talk about the monolift today. When you’re benching by yourself, you need to be safe. The monolift and a good power rack is a good combination to stay safe while still lifting the heaviest amounts of weights as you can. So we’re going to talk about how to set it up, and then talk about a few things that you need to think about when you are setting up a monolift.
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.
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).
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.