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RUN AN EFFICIENT BODY/BUSINESS.
BY JOHN RAHME
The following has evolved from the last three weeks of my life.
“You have four bulging discs” Efrem tells me as he looks at the scans of the MRI scan. “The top two discs are not to bad, but the bottom two don’t look good, especially ...
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PROGRAM DESIGNING FOR AN AMATEUR LIKE ME.
BY JOHN RAHME
I go back a few years now and I just had moved over from the west’s-magpies premier league rugby league side over to the st. George Illawarra dragons.
My specialty was supervising them in the gym whilst they did there weights and then ...
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A Day in the Life of a Strength & Conditioning Coach – Off Season
Ashley Jones
For those of you that are contemplating a career in this line of work I though it may be an opportune time to outline a typical day so you can see what goes on. This will ...
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Everyone is in search of the best program, the best way and in the fastest time. When you begin the quest for strength, you always feel that you need to know more.By Damian Marsh Athletic Performance Coordinator ACT Brumbies Rugby Union, Australia
The Roads to Rome
By Damian Marsh
Athletic Performance Coordinator
ACT Brumbies ...
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GPP: General Physical Preparedness
By Steve Thompson
Getstrength.com
General Physical Preparedness Training is most times over looked by strength athletes and trainers.
My time as a trainer and international competitive powerlifter I have talked to top strength athletes from around the country and overseas. Often athletes will remark on how well there training is ...
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Damian Marsh, Athletic Performance Coordinator, ACT Brumbies Rugby Union
Ashley Jones, Physical Performance Coordinator, Crusaders Rugby Union
Some days we feel like John Nash, searching for that “one original thought” that changes the way people look at a particular problem. To develop a system of programming that is “profound in its simplicity” ...
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By Tony Boutagy www.tonyboutagy.com
Russian Deadlifts (Good Mornings)
Introduction
For many decades, Russian weightlifters have performed an exercise to develop the posterior chain where they hold a bar on the trapezius and bow forward from the waist. They would perform this exercise both with a neutral spine and, for variation, with a rounded ...
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By Tony Boutagy www.tonyboutagy.com
Polish Good Mornings
Introduction
Single-leg good mornings are not a favoured choice amongst strength coaches because the movement cannot be loaded to any high degree - the weight on the shoulders, of course, would tip any strong athlete over. Polish weightlifters got around this problem by placing their working leg ...
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By Tony Boutagy www.tonyboutagy.com
Many strength coaches have a well guarded secret. And that secret is this: strength exercises typically have boring and lackluster names. So to make them sound more interesting and exotic, the name of an Eastern Bloc country is added to the movement, transforming an ordinary squat into a ...
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