Recently, after several of my e-mail rants and pontifications, my pal skip would respond by writing “breathe in, breathe out. Keep repeating”.  Now, Skip is a funny guy but he makes a good point. We all breathe, but do we breathe correctly? Read the rest of this entry

By this time, Natalie Woolfolk is in Beijing, preparing to compete in Olympic lifting for the USA in the 2008 Summer Games. Before she left, she got in some training at Mike’s Gym.

Thanks to Covert Mike for telling me about the video and directing me to Catalyst Athletics. There are so many things to watch and take note of in this video like the progression exercises she does, all the technique nuances, but the one thing that really jumps out is just how fast she is! She makes the lifts look like I can go in the gym and do it like that. <dream sequence ends>.

This interesting article was posted at Mike’s Gym, posted by Bill Johnson, who learned it almost 40 years ago while training in Goju-Ryu Karate. The article was originally written by Dr. Michael Colgan. Read the rest of this entry