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New Performance Menu Website
Greg Everett
| April 5 2013 |
General
Next month will bring the 100th issue of the Performance Menu Journal. To celebrate, we have launched our entirely new website and publishing system. Here’s what's new:
Website: Easy and convenient access to all of our content - 9 years worth of monthly issues with almost 500 articles. You can now search and sort all articles with ease by category, date and author.
Mobile Accessibility: We have a new mobile website that has all the functions and features of the desktop site, but is m......
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Missing Lifts in Training
Greg Everett
| March 11 2013 |
Quick Tips
What percentage of your lifts in training are misses? If you know an actual number, you're spending too much time on the math and not enough on the lifting, but if it's a big chunk, you're probably aware of it. I've talked a lot about practice and how important it is to practice lifting the way you want to lift even on the seemingly inconsequential sets or accessory lifts because that will be the majority of your training volume, and therefore the majority of your training time.
Your misses ......
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American Weightlifting: The Documentary
Greg Everett
| February 5 2013 |
General
I just recently announced the documentary I've been quietly working on for the past couple years, American Weightlifting. This is a project I'm extremely excited about and can't wait to release. It will highlight the hard work and passion of lifters and coaches in the US and their struggle to compete internationally with lifters who are well-funded and well-supported, and recognized and appreciated by the public.
You can check out a trailer and get info as it becomes available from the movie ......
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Get Cozy Down There
Greg Everett
| January 16 2013 |
Quick Tips
Something I can't stand is watching lifters with weak or inconsistent bottom positions in the snatch rush out of the squat and drop the bar partway up, even in power snatches (this applies to jerks as well). These same athletes will often also complain about missing big attempts that "felt so easy" because they can't secure the bar overhead long enough to recover successfully.
This to me is such an obvious fix, that having to remind people drives me crazy. If this describes you, eas......
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Back Extension(s)
Greg Everett
| January 7 2013 |
Weightlifting
If one of your problems with the Olympic lifts is a weak back arch, that needs to become a focus for you in just about everything you do. Some of you have become very strong in round-backed postures and are finding yourselves unable to set a proper back arch in the pull of the snatch or clean, or even all the way through your squats. Reversing this can take a long time and a lot of patience and consistency.
One of my favorite exercises is the plain old back extension, or hyperextension......
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Performance Menu Journal Reader Survey
Greg Everett
| January 1 2013 |
General
As we start our 9th year of publishing the Performance Menu journal, we'd like to get some feedback from our readers to see how we can continue to improve. It should be fairly quick and painless, and your time will help us a great deal in determining how we can provide you with a better publication. Thank you for you help and your support of the Performance Menu and Catalyst Athletics!
Please take the survey here......
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A New Year at Catalyst Athletics
Greg Everett
| January 1 2013 |
General
I’m starting off 2013 sitting in my backyard with a cup of coffee enjoying the sun and a rare day off. I tend not to be a very publicly sentimental fellow, but I have to say 2012 was an incredible year and I’m more excited for 2013 than I have been for any other year previously. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but there is something undeniably meaningful about beginning a new phase of life each year that I won’t pretend doesn’t affect me.
This last yea......
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Get it Behind Your Neck
Greg Everett
| December 17 2012 |
Weightlifting
The overhead position for the snatch and jerk is critical both for successful lifting and safety. Lifts from behind the neck can be a big help in improving these overhead positions through increased strength, mobility and consistency in position.
Overhead lifts starting from behind the neck allow a straight bar path to the overhead position, simplifying the movement and making it easier for the athlete to get the bar into position properly. This helps ingrain the feeling of the correct positi......
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The 2012 American Open, or The Weekend I Almost Killed Matt Foreman
Greg Everett
| December 5 2012 |
Weightlifting
The dust has settled for the most part after the 2012 American Open in Palm Springs, California, so I’m going to see if I can do a recap of the weekend. This year we had 12 lifters competing—I believe that made us the second largest team there behind the juggernaut East Coast Gold (technically 11 since Caleb lifts unattached—details).
Normally the American Open is somewhere in the Midwest or on the East Coast. Getting to spend a December weekend in Palm Springs was incredib......
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Now Available! Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach's Guide
Greg Everett
| November 28 2012 |
General
I'm extremely excited to release this book, and am very proud to have published it. Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach’s Guide by Bob Takano is the most thorough English-language book available on the subject of program planning for Olympic-style weightlifting. Takano covers the theoretical and practical issues, the biological and mathematical underpinnings, and provides a straightforward process for developing training programs with plentiful examples.
You can order the book......
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