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A simple way to split your training and how to complicate it

Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F. Bruno It is funny because it was right under our nose. Yet it took us a situation of training chaos (a vacation in which you cannot predict where you will train and when) to connect the dots. Our approach to training is movement based. We don’t train parts of the body. We […]

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Into the mind of the coach: Swede Cory Burns

(“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 on April 4th, 1980, in Delaware County Memorial Hospital, which is just on the edge of the city of

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Into the mind of the coach: Lord Elliott

(“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? Many people are always intrigued by my name or what it stands for. I get a balance of good reactions and bad

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Into the mind of the coach: Jay Ashman

(“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 Reading, PA and moved around quite a bit for career and personal reasons. I spent a lot of

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The physical educator and strength coach professions

Facts and questions about Brazil => food for thought for you, American and European coaches Unlike in the USA and most European countries, in Brazil, it is a serious infraction to practice a wide variety of activities related to Physical Education (including, but not only, strength coaching) without a LICENCE. The licence is provided by

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The tragedy of lipservice trans-disciplinarity: writing about sports without having ever been there

By: Marilia Coutinho (@marilia_coutinho) and Eric Brown (@oracleofihop)   A few weeks ago, the two of us were discussing a topic related to fitness management, with implications to marketing and sales: client retention and untapped reserve. Let’s take a look at the physical structure of most conventional gyms: there is a strip of “cardio machines”,

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Spreading the Iron Gospel – part 1

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

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