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I have argued in favor of hybrid training for improving performance in powerlifting during the past two years. There is no published scientific evidence for that. Actually, there is very little published scientific evidence for any given training method or protocol for powerlifting. The reasons for this go beyond disinterest from the scientific community. Actually, […]

  Protests against the Soccer World Cup in Brazil: there isn’t a shred of evidence concerning any advantage of mega-sports events to the host country. Abundant studies show evidence of the opposite. Brazil is not a rich country, has no true sports culture (we can’t call the commercial frenzy around soccer anything close to a

Everything got out of control here: it was a peaceful demonstration against bus fares. Then the police were ordered to intervene. They did and someone ordered the shock police to intervene as well. People were terrified but somehow, the sheer incomprehensibility of the situation brought more people into the movement, which got HUGE. The police

Today I realized something wonderful about time management and multi-tasking for athletes who are also full time professionals in other fields. Since people like lists, here it goes (comments follow): Forget being reasonable according to society at large: training (your pleasure) comes first. Never negotiate your training time. If you establish you will have two

  Steve Pulcinella, strength athlete with outstanding achievements in many different sports, coach, writer and owner of Iron Sport, a powerful resistance trench against mainstream fitness, gave me this interview in 2011. It was translated into Portuguese and published at Musculação & Fitness, a Brazilian training magazine. The original interview is here. Anything you would

Shawn Lattimer, one of the strongest SHW powerlifters until the late 2000s, made a major change in his sports career: he became an Arm Wrestler. A few years later, he was already at the top positions of the American AW national ranking. A successful engineer, Shawn talks about the different demands of each sport and

Why do you want to improve your benching? Because I’m a powerlifter (go to 2) Because I’m a competitive athlete from another sport (go to 7) Because I want to look better (go to 8) Because it’s fun (go to 9) Did you stagnate? No, I just want to see if you got something I

Today I taught a class at Tracer, a Parkour facility owned by my friend Jean. I talked about the intertwined histories of the strength and martial arts – also known, today, as strength sports and combat sports. The whole argument is simple but provocative. Both arts share a common origin: endemic war. The first manifestations

Let’s try to improve whatever lift or powerlifting issue you have in mind in a few easy steps. Not that I believe this, but I’m at the waiting room at my physician’s office, nothing to do except wait, so I decided to test a hypothesis: people like lists. As in “how to repair your tooth

I am working on this topic today for a class. Transfer is at the basis of the coaching challenge. Planning a sound training protocol for an athlete, a re-hab patient or any recreational practitioner comes back to the basic issue of transfer. The whole functionality imbroblio is actually about transfer: how goal-movement appropriate is your