Mark Clevenger

 
Maximize Your Strongman Performance Through Analytics
Maximize Your Strongman Performance Through Analytics

Analyze every detail of every event, in every contest you sign up for. Remember, the strongest guy doesn’t always win.

20 Questions
20 Questions

Time to play “20 Questions” to help you see the better side of the effect this pandemic has on your training. Bonus: Learn of an alternative household item you can use instead of toilet paper.

3 Things Physical Therapy School Taught Me About Being A Strength Coach
3 Things Physical Therapy School Taught Me About Being A Strength Coach

I could write a big article covering every detail about physical therapy and strength coaching, but I’ve chosen to spare your computer screen space and discuss the most important topics about what physical therapy school taught me about being a strength coach.

Accommodation vs. Specificity: Battle of the Training Concepts
Accommodation vs. Specificity: Battle of the Training Concepts

Specificity tells us we become best at the things we do most often, but accommodation tells us that we become stale from the things we do most often. What’s the answer?

Bigger Is Not Always Stronger: Fallacies of Muscle Hypertrophy for Strength Athletes
Bigger Is Not Always Stronger: Fallacies of Muscle Hypertrophy for Stren...

I am going to establish an argument against a particular misconception: the fallacy that working out to make your ‘muscles bigger’ will make you stronger, faster, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Movement Economy in Sports
Movement Economy in Sports

I aim to clarify this concept and operationally define movement economy as it relates to sporting performance through a detailed and layered description for athletes to use in both training and competition.

Building the Perfect Pressing Platform — From Feet to Shoulders
Building the Perfect Pressing Platform — From Feet to Shoulders

I want to take a look at the press from an osteokinematic, biomechanical, and maximal performance viewpoint, in an effort to marry the three into the safest and strongest pressing position possible.

Programming Economy — 5 Exercise Categories
Programming Economy — 5 Exercise Categories

Let’s start with a couple of definitions to standardize our understanding of this concept of training economy. We will look at GPE, SPE, SE, SDE, and SFE.

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