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May 12 2007
Greg Everett
| May 12 2007 |
General
Aimee Anaya, Casey Burgener, Natalie Woolfolk and others lift this weekend at the USA Weightlifting Senior National Championships. Best of luck to them all.......
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May 11 2007
Greg Everett
| May 11 2007 |
General
Box squats can be a great help in improving squat numbers. Pictured is Ricardo Costa, California State powerlifting champion and author of an article on box squats in Issue 28 of the Performance Menu.......
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May 9 2007
Greg Everett
| May 9 2007 |
General
Get a little more overload on your squats by having your coach or training partner 'unload' the bar slightly through your sticking point. He or she should provide just enough pressure for just long enough to get you through, not lift the bar for you.......
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May 7 2007
Greg Everett
| May 7 2007 |
General
Throw those balls. Medicine balls can be thrown a number of ways, including backward from a swing, pushed vertically or horizontally with one or two arms, and forward or backward torso rotation.......
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May 5 2007
Greg Everett
| May 5 2007 |
General
The Cinco de Mayo workout: 5 snatch - 50% 1RM5 burpees5 muscle-ups (or pull-ups)5 1-arm kettlebell swing (per arm - 30% of bodyweight)5 push press (75% of bodyweight)-----5 roundsPerform prior to tequila consumption.......
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May 4 2007
Greg Everett
| May 4 2007 |
General
To stretch the lateral hamstrings more, perform a basic hamstring stretch with one leg elevated on a box and rotate the hips into that leg.......
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May 3 2007
Greg Everett
| May 3 2007 |
General
Weight gain in its essence is far simpler than is commonly believed—eat more. If you're not gaining weight, you're not eating enough. If you're serious about gaining weight, eating must become part of your training—whether or not you enjoy it is immaterial. Pictured is a single meal of 10 eggs, 1 avocado, 1 tomato, spinach, 2 oranges and 2 apples.......
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May 2 2007
Greg Everett
| May 2 2007 |
General
Short on equipment and have a big group to train? A single dumbbell per client can go a long way.......
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May 1 2007
Greg Everett
| May 1 2007 |
General
Performance Menu Issue 28 is now available. This issue includes MMA fight preparation, how to coach the clean, an interview with Krista Scott of Stumptuous, a look at the box squat, and more recipes.......
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April 30 2007
Greg Everett
| April 30 2007 |
General
Having long legs doesn't make you exempt from deadlifting, but it does require a departure from what may be presented as correct positioning by literature produced by those who've spend no time in actual coaching settings and couldn't pick up a pencil from the floor soundly, let alone a loaded barbell. Long legs will demand that the hips be higher in the starting position. Attempting to lower the hips in order to increase the back angle as is often said to be 'correct' will result in the hips be......
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