The state of “flow” has been discussed in studies about sports such as swimming, mountaineering, among others. “Flow” is an altered state of consciousness that could be roughly defined as a very deep focus. More than that, “flow” in sports defines a condition of heightened perception of the task at hand at the expense of […]
The flow in powerlifting – images from Mauro Spinardi Leia mais »
On July 21st we’re offering a Strongman and Odd object training course in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. There will be a short theoretical part delivered by myself and my colleague Luciano Dias, where we will cover very basic issues on history, kinesiology and physiology. All the technical discussion will be “hands-on”. It will be eight
In two weeks I will be going to Colombia to take part on the South American WPC powerlifting championship. About everything that could go wrong did go wrong: I had planned on going equipped, I had some experience with equipment, especially the bench shirt, but for some reason, I did not adjust. In 2011 I
Cheguei em casa agora. Preciso comer, tomar banho, dar um jeito na minha lombar sofrida, mas eis aqui meu “press release” minimalista, antes de uma reflexão mais longa no blog. Este fim de semana, dias 16 e 17 de julho de 2012, Joel Fridman (CrossFit Brasil ) e eu demos o primeiro curso de LEVANTAMENTOS DE
A era dos levantamentos de peso Leia mais »
Periodization is not a complicated idea. Basically, it means designing a training program according to goals distributed along a period of time, or even planning variation (or it’s opposite, maintenance) of stimuli considering time. That’s about it. It gets a little more complicated when we have to decide how to organize time. What will we
Just a short note to say I am collecting lifter’s experience with the management of elbow pain. Whatever I write is not intented as medical advice. It is an attempt to organize the sharing of strategies devised by lifters themselves to handle this annoying chronic problem that affects so many of us. During the process
Elbow soreness part 1 Leia mais »
That’s really a question – I have no answer. I did it not once or twice. I see others do it. It can go from neglecting the training load prescribed for the day to ignoring injury signals. I did the latter about three weeks before the South American powerlifting championship last year. This year, I
Why do athletes do stupid things right before the contest? Part 1 Leia mais »
This is not an essay. This is not an argument. This is just a note to myself and everybody else to pursue this line of thinking further, and also to share my very slight enthusiasm about discovering it. It sounds like a productive approach: the relationship between hope and burnout. I haven’t really read the
There’s no avoiding it any longer: I have burned out. Burn out is not the same as overtraining, although it has direct and indirect relations with the “underperformance syndromes”. The burn out syndrome is a psychological state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. I like Maslach and Leiter’s description of it as “an erosion of
More on my own hybrid training and how it is periodized. If you look at my table with five categories of training components (powerlifting, weightlifting, kettlebell, bodyweight training and “other”) it will look like a sort of game with random dice throws. It’s not. This is a table I designed for myself in which I
More on my own hybrid training and how it is periodized Leia mais »
