Doing damn hard work to get back on the platform.
Pain is merely your body’s interpretation that something may be wrong. It doesn’t mean that your days of heavy lifting are over.
Proper lifting technique is not only important in the gym, but it should also be applied to everyday life.
Instead of reaching for those antibiotics, you might want to give this a try.
At some point in your career as a powerlifter, you will be injured. How will you respond?
He’s back! You’ve got questions? He’s got the answers to get you back under the bar.
Your weak points may not always be a strength issue.
I was told that I had a twelve- to eighteen-month recovery ahead of me and that I would never have 100 percent use of my leg again.
Sprained your damn ankle again? The worst part is getting it back to full strength, but with these seven exercises, you can cut your rehab time in half.
Dave shows up for work pretty riled up. He feels the need to say some things…
When squatting or in any movement, your joints should move through all three planes to some degree.
It’s something to be concerned with if you’re a competitive athlete because folks are obviously getting busted.
Take the time to fix your aliments and you’ll be thanking yourself for those three weeks that gave you continued years of pain-free training.
One of the biggest issues we face at our gym is shoulder health.
It seems that when most folk are going through a rough patch in life, lifting gets them through it.
Watch as Julia explains what she learned after her trip to see Mike Robertson.
If you live a healthy enough lifestyle and perform the correct preventative movements, your body’s ability to heal will be exponentially greater.
All you need is five minutes to foam roll, five minutes to do the breathing and bracing, and five minutes to do the dynamic warm up and you’re all set!
Will I ever cure my kyphosis totally? Probably not, but I can at least work on keeping my shoulders healthy.
Once you’ve experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.
One of the longest standing controversies in the world of health, fitness, and athletic performance is whether or not one should take creatine.
A stable and optimal hip can produce force in all three dimensions of movement—flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and internal/external rotation.
Developing an active and full range of motion (ROM) in our relationships between muscles and joints is vastly important for optimum performance.
With Jim Wendler, Mark McLaughlin, Bob Youngs, Alwyn Cosgrove, Tom Deebel, Jason Ferruggia, Julia Ladewski, Dave Tate, and Mike Hope.
The bottom position of a squat or deadlift is where the lumbar spine is most vulnerable.
I believe that since I’ve been training with it like this these last couple of years, at least I should be able to continue without a problem.
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love…lifting!!
I don’t take any credit for this but instead give credit to the mind who published his idea for the 5/3/1 program—Jim Wendler.
How many of you in the “elitefts™ family” have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?
Man, do I love vacation time. It’s the best time of year for resting, recovering, reflecting, and replanning.
Few sayings are more sagacious than the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
What’s more important is bench pressing without messing up your shoulders in the process.
In this article, I will show you how to increase the range of motion further in your upper body to get the most out of all your upper body movements like the bench, row, shoulder press, and chin-up.
We would like to know your thoughts on warming-up and recovery.
This goes out to all the mobility experts, strength coaches and yoga instructors…
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
When we think of bettering performance, the topic of recovery is paramount.
And if all else fails, I’ll do what all other powerlifters do with nagging injuries, I’ll ignore it.
On the face of it, cherry juice may just appear to be the latest in a long line of super foods.
Regardless of whether or not you have the surgery, you’ll need to focus on extensive warm-ups prior to activities that cause subluxations.
When your training is going well, your body is able to recover better.
As a powerlifting coach and professional clinical social worker, I used to define “recovery” in two different ways depending on what hat I was wearing at the time.
Here are 10 easy effective shoulder prehab/rehab warm-ups that we perform at NeboBarbell.
I think it’s safe to say that if you’re a frequent reader of this site, you know full well the extreme benefits that can be derived by lifting massive weights with our lower extremities.
So stay tuned my little Pulcimaniacs and see if Uncle Steve can bull his way through his own rehab with total disregard of the advice of doctors, friends and family without ending up with a permanent pimp walk.
The basketball season is just coming to an end for many high schools, and it won’t be long before many of the players are off to their AAU teams.