20 minutes to save a life By John Rahme
“If you had a patient that was ill, and there was a pill which they could take, which would in return save their life. But they had to take that…
Fun with Blocks
Block work I believe is a much under used modality for training, often just the domain of Olympic lifters, it can add both variety and supplement your more traditional training elements.…
Building a Better Strength and Conditioning Coach – Ashley Jones
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I am not a sports scientist; I am a strength and conditioning coach. One man’s opinion.
No matter what else the person has if they can not communicate, empathise and organize then every other qualification they have is useless.
Advanced Exercises with Eastern European Names: Part I
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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 Bulgarian Squat and the average deadlift into a Romanian deadlift! Clients are always far more impressed if they are performing a Hungarian Chin Up* rather than a plain old chin up! And it’s now becoming very popular, especially with females strength coaches, to add the name Brazilian, if the exercise is performed with no weight at all!!
Triple Treats Revisited – Ashley Jones
Author Ashley Jones A few years ago I wrote an article for Milo on using three exercises of a similar theme in sequence, increasing load moving from one to the…
Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting Methods – Tom Mclaughlin
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The following article is sure to provoke a steady flow of feedback, as it is a much disputed fact of strength development. Arguments will be presented from both views and I will then attempt to give readers my own personal opinion of what I feel to be the primary tool in improving strength levels.
Olympic lifting in team sports has long been thought of as the best way to develop explosive power and maximal strength. This first started when early coaches saw how powerful and explosive weightlifters were, one only has to look at videos on the internet to realise that these athletes are at the top power athletes in the world. Flexibility is another area highlighted within weightlifters which is regarded to be of a high standard. The flexibility required to perform a full snatch of clean the bar in a deep squat is an exceptional display of core control and joint mobility.
Five (5) Favourite Overhead Pressing Movements
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1. Cambered Bar Shoulder Press
Usually a bar you associate with squatting and good morning but press it overhead and reap the benefits to the rotator cuffs and the stabilisation of the trunk as the bar swings slightly out of alignment as you press it overhead. Watch you don’t catch you hands on the support racks when you put the bar back into the racks at the completion of your set.
HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF ( STRENGTH TRAINING FOR MASTERS) Part 3 First Change
Squat day change of 2nd Squatting movement Front squat There are many different ways to hold the bar, very good if you can get your elbows high enough to hold…
How to Jump Higher to Dunk 2018
Jump Progressions Ashley Jones We use a lot of jumping movements in our programs. Usually as a contrast with our power and strength movements. Reading through archived articles of…
Fast-tracking the development of young rugby players in the four “esses” – Bruce Ross, CEO, MyoQuip Pty Ltd
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Fast-tracking the development of young rugby players in the four “esses” – size, strength, speed and skill
by Bruce Ross, CEO, MyoQuip Pty Ltd (November 2008) A two-year program of accelerating the physical and skill development of young players at Sydney University has returned big dividends.
Within days of losing the 2006 First Colts Grand Final due to being out-muscled at the breakdown, University coach Nick Ryan met with his team and together they made a pact to never again be pushed off the ball. The players allowed themselves a mere three weeks break before getting back into training for the 2007 season at a level of intensity not seen before in Sydney club rugby. The off-season training regimen consisted of 4 weights sessions and 3 field sessions per week, switching to 3 weights and 2 to 3 field sessions during the playing season plus regular individual video analysis and field sessions with the coach.