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Here is a very useful video filmed at the Getstrength Factory gym, the boys in action with their
Knee Wrapping technique.
The key point is to keep you leg straight while wrapping, it is very handy to get your training partner to help to keep you leg straight or even wrap your ...
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Strength Band Resistance Chart See below
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Hi Team, Quick post to let you know about the most common and preferred Zercher set up position with the Harness.
Buy your Harness direct online from our secure store - Front Squat Zercher Harness
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Progressive overloading with chains to build accelerating strength, firing motor units through out the body opening more neurological pathways for optimal strength.
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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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By Tony Boutagy www.tonyboutagy.com
Bulgarian Squats
Introduction
It was rumored in weightlifting circles that when the Bulgarian's began to match the Russian's dominance in the strength sports that they had a secret training weapon. That secret weapon, as it turned out, was not a secret at all, just hard work and excellent programming ...
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By Steve Thompson
For those of you who don't know who I am and are thinking, "who is this clown?" -
I have competed in two IPF World Powerlifting Championships.I am the holder of four New Zealand Powerlifting records and two All-round Weightlifting World records. I have been competing in the sport ...
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