For most people their favorite “drug” of choice is caffeine. Here is what Will Brink has to say. “What You Need To Know About Caffeine“.
Jesse Burdick, in Diesel Strength and Conditioning states that breathing correctly is “important if you are missing off the floor and is used in conjunction with taking the slack out of the bar. He goes on to explain Breathing and Bracing For the Deadlift. Check out the links at the end of the article for more great deadlift tips.
A few days ago I posted research that discussed the dangers of using NSAID’s during intense training. From Will Brink: Here is a solution to lower back and neck pain.
You know the value and the benefits of a good warm-up and you do them before every workout, right? Eric Cressey has Five Ways To Improve Your Warm-Up.
Your lower body training day is coming up you have two choices, squat…
From Charles Poliquin: You can train the posterior chain by squatting heavier and deeper (no, I didn’t forget about yesterday)!
…and deadlift, right?
Also from Poliquin: Tips to gain size and strength fast by deadlifting.
Speaking of deadlifts, my Fitocracy friend Tessa Nielsen is shown easily pulling a deadlift best of 225 lbs. A few months ago, she was deadlifting 155 lbs and wanted to be able to deadlift my weight, of all things. Once she became comfortable with the the alternating grip, her lifts went up.
On the nutritional side of things, Will Brink write on creatine and depression recovery. I don’t know if it means helping you feel better about a crappy workout though!
From Ori Hofmekler on intermittent fasting. Is Your Body Programmed For Intermittent Fasting?
Squatting too low is usually not the problem since many lifters barely make it to parallel, but it’s possible your squat is too low.
The chances are good that if you are training hard, you are friends with the bottle of Advil. Sore muscles, inflammation and achy joints are no fun and you know the pills work but apparently they do more than relieve your pain. Charles Poliquin cautions against the use of NSAIDS during intense training.
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Ryan Lochte just beat Michael Phelps and took the gold in the 400 meter individual medley at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Prior to this race, he has won 6 gold medals, owns 4 world records and he looks to do very well during these Games.
How does an Olympic champion train for his sport when he is not in the pool? Here is a glimpse of Lochte’s training regimen.
Here are two more, by way of PurePowerAthlete.com.
Some of Lochte’s weight room programming
There are so many components to make champions and some of it comes in the weight room, regardless of your sport. Good luck Ryan for the rest of these London 2012 Games!
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Weight training involves injuries from time time to time as do most sports. Nothing new there. But would you still train with weights and in your sport if you had suffered through this menu of injuries endured by one well known guy?
Paul Levasque has. Levasque, otherwise known in the WWE as Triple H knew he had to make some changes to his training regimen if he was to continue wrestling turned to Joe DeFranco Training
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