By Marilia Coutinho and Antonio Bruno The older and more experienced the athlete, the higher the chances of him having accumulated injuries and chronic pain. The paradox here is that at the elite level, the perfect athlete would be the older, genetically and mentally gifted athlete with the young body, or as the saying goes […]
On pain and perfection Read More »
“How to fix your bench press” was a series of three articles originally published at the EliteFTS website. The parts were: 1. The setup 2. The execution 3. Programming and assistance work On my website, I reproduce part of the article and the link to keep reading it at the EliteFTS site. How
How to Fix Your Bench Press: Parte 2 -The Execution (EliteFTS series) Read More »
Powerlifters spend their whole lives having to fix small (or big) movement pattern or technique problems here and there. One might think that a very experienced high performance athlete doesn’t need to. Wrong: at each new injury (and they are inevitable and frequent), movement patterns are changed. They need fixing. Besides that, we evolve. Our
“Stuff from everyday” – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it Read More »
Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F Bruno Last week Marilia told a bodybuilder friend about the Powerhouse (her home gym). But don’t you have at least a pulley? No… no pulley Dumbbells?… No, no dumbbells. They are on my list for soon, but I don’t know when soon will be. So he came to visit and was taken
Gainz with just a barbell and a bench Read More »
(“Into the mind of the coach” project – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born in Tarzana California. I moved when I was three years old to Ridgewood New Jersey, I lived there until
Into the mind of the coach: Eric Grogin Read More »
Like in any other sport or skilled activity, learning powerlifting involves certain stages. Sports learning is generally understood as a three stage process: the cognitive, associative and autonomous stages. The cognitive stage is where the individual recognizes the basic components of a certain skill or motor task. He must form a visual image of each
Spreading the Iron Gospel – part 1 Read More »
Some coaches believe that the stance is something genetic, like the color of your eyes. Lifters come as sumo deadlifters or traditional. It’s a joke, of course, but not that far from the truth: you will notice that elite lifters very rarely shift from one to the other. There is a general rule that short
The deadlift: sumo or traditional? Read More »
