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Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
I’ve been reading “Power to the People” again as I write my own stuff. I had forgotten how much I like Tsatsouline’s writing. Not only it is sound technical material, but it is also funny and bold. Just the way it should be. The man is talking sense about neural aspects of strength for such a long time and academia has still not even starting crawling on his tracks…
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Since I broke my leg in June 2007, I must admit I have not paid much attention to squatting. I squatted back my leg and glutes volume and strength, more in order to improve my deadlift than for the sake of squatting itself.
About two months ago I did a load test and 140kg was pretty heavy. No way I could do 150kg. Yesterday I did 2 X 150kg, easy. I estimate something around 165kg-170kg max in competition.
What is this improvement? I attribute most of it to neural training with sustaining work. I have periodized my squats in combination with deadlifts, did not max out during this month and a half or so and this is the result I got.
I am happy.
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
My friends taking part on the South American Powerlifting Championship in Quito, Equador, are having problems with the altitude. This is called Acute Mountain Sickness and can develop complications. It is recommended that athletes increase their water intake and completely avoid alcohol, anti-histaminics and sleep medications.
There are other alternatives, but many included the use of substances that are banned by WADA.
I had never thought of this before, but maybe it is a good idea not to host competitions in high altitude towns, since high altitude dwelling people have no problems down here, but we do, if we climb up there without proper acclimation, which takes about two weeks.
Just an idea.
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
This site is the best I found to this moment concerning “hidden” information on sports in general. It is where I found documents and publications about weightlifting during the Cold War, histories of specific institution and athletes, everything you can imagine.
Of special interest is Iron Game History, an amazing periodical with rich material concerning our sports.
Check it out: http://www.la84foundation.org/
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I found this article yesterday and decided to share. Most of us, athletes, are aware of this phenomenon. I am not sure about the explanations offered in the study bellow, though. There is something more to it.
More later.
J Strength Cond Res. 2003 May;17(2):303-6.
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The effects of competition and the presence of an audience on weight lifting performance.
Rhea MR, Landers DM, Alvar BA, Arent SM.
Exercise Science Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. matthew.rhea@asu.edu
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of the presence of an audience and competition on maximal weight lifting performance. Thirty-two recreationally trained participants (15 men, 17 women; 21 +/- 2.5 years) performed a 1 repetition maximum (1 RM) bench press during 3 different situations (coaction, competitive coaction, and audience condition). Subjects also completed the Activation-Deactivation Adjective Checklist Short Form following the 3 trials to measure arousal state during each of the 3 trials. Significant differences (p < 0.05) were found between competitive coaction and coaction trials as well as between audience and coaction trials. Both men and women demonstrated the highest performance in front of an audience (105 +/- 48 kg) followed by competition (103 +/- 46 kg) and then the coaction trial (93 +/- 43 kg). No significant difference in arousal was measured between trials. The data suggest that performing a maximal lift in the presence of an audience or in competition facilitates performance and support the self-presentation and self-awareness theories. Social facilitation effects should be controlled in research settings and may aid the performance of weight lifting activities during events or competition.
Publication Types:
· Comparative Study
PMID: 12741867 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A friend enjoyed this potential title for a book on injury prevention and rehabilitation for powerlifters. I wonder why.
By the way, I still don’t have a name for my book. Suggestions include “the Lord of the Disks”, “Warriors of Steel” and I included “Warriors of Any Metal Stuff”.
I accept suggestions.
Posted in Training
Monday, July 14th, 2008
It Works. Especially if you have excruciating pain on both your elbows and you have to abstract it. Lifting is focus, focus is the ability to unclutter the mind and be fully present in whatever you are doing.
Mindful lifting – the way to go.
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
I’ve been reading material concerning my lateral epicondylitis. They all stress you should only procede to rehab after complete cessation of pain. Ah… I think it’s time for an update on the popular injury name or else separate “tennis elbow” from “bencher’s elbow”. There is NEVER complete cessation of pain for us.
Oh yes there is: when you stop training. And then when you resume it, it hurts again. My physiotherapist violently disagrees and blames me for reckless training and competition behavior: b**t.
At this point, I don’t believe these things can be anything but chronic in ogres like us. And we will keep benching.
Some of us develop some sense and practice pre-hab and re-hab and this is what I am trying to do. Eventually, I will learn to live with this, just like I learned to live with acro-myo-clavicular injury.
Posted in Training
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Last Monday I benched only up to 75kg raw and then 3 X 100kg (220lb) plus 1 X 110kg (242lb) equipped (Katana A/S). Just growled at over-excited friends threatening to load the bar up to whatever. The week before I had gone up to 77,5kg raw, no equipped benching.
This is recovery from an accumulated set of injuries. The most painful is a double lateral epicondilitis. It just kills you at lock-outs and sustaining work.
This is my third week of “Mid-Year” resolutions (the ones I failed at New Year). The most important one is to change the pattern where I spend half of the year competing and screwing my joints and half of the year trying to mend them. Now I will do pre-hab work all year long. I have been visiting my friend Bernardo, who is a physiotherapist and a very strict person, every week. I also see Fabiano (my orthopedist) twice a month and have electro-acupuncture.
More later about pre-hab work. I think it is working, but since training has been intensified, the pain is also quite intense.
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