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True or False: If You Have Hypermobile Joints, You’re More Likely To Get Injured Playing Sports
“Hypermobility” just means a greater than normal range of movement. It’s not uncommon. By some accounts, 20 to 30% of the population have some degree of hypermobility, either affecting an isolated joint or generalized throughout the... Continue reading
“Hypermobility” just means a greater than normal range of movement. It’s not uncommon. By some accounts, 20 to 30% of the population have some degree of hypermobility, either affecting an isolated joint or generalized throughout the... Continue reading
Do Sprints and Plyometrics Make You More Explosive in the Olympic Lifts?
When I was a kid playing high school football in a small town, I once asked my coach about what college players were like. We lived in East Jesus Nowhere, so I had never seen a big-time athlete up close, but my coach had played college ball back in t... Continue reading
When I was a kid playing high school football in a small town, I once asked my coach about what college players were like. We lived in East Jesus Nowhere, so I had never seen a big-time athlete up close, but my coach had played college ball back in t... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 145
Kelly Asks: Hey Greg! If a woman is a proficient lifter and would like to do a 6 week classic cycle for example, during pregnancy, is there anything you would recommend be modified about it? Thanks so much! Greg Says: First of all, I’m... Continue reading
Kelly Asks: Hey Greg! If a woman is a proficient lifter and would like to do a 6 week classic cycle for example, during pregnancy, is there anything you would recommend be modified about it? Thanks so much! Greg Says: First of all, I’m... Continue reading
Weightlifting News: Issue 144
New American Records CJ Cummings (69kg) set new Youth (16-17) and Jr. American records in the snatch with 138kg, the clean and jerk with 183kg, and the total with 321kg (being his previous records). The clean and jerk and total were also ne... Continue reading
New American Records CJ Cummings (69kg) set new Youth (16-17) and Jr. American records in the snatch with 138kg, the clean and jerk with 183kg, and the total with 321kg (being his previous records). The clean and jerk and total were also ne... Continue reading
Interview: Chelsea Ryan
This interview is a special one for me because I had the pleasure of coaching Chelsea Ryan at her first National Championship in 2014. That nationals was a huge one for Catalyst Athletics, with Greg and Aimee bringing a big squad of lifters to rock a... Continue reading
This interview is a special one for me because I had the pleasure of coaching Chelsea Ryan at her first National Championship in 2014. That nationals was a huge one for Catalyst Athletics, with Greg and Aimee bringing a big squad of lifters to rock a... Continue reading
How To Coach Youth Weightlifting When You Don't Understand Kids
Whitney Houston belted, "the children are our future." That may be a universal truth, but it's also the unspoken motto of any country's weightlifting program. After all, novelty-sized youth lifters turn into larger than life Olympic... Continue reading
Whitney Houston belted, "the children are our future." That may be a universal truth, but it's also the unspoken motto of any country's weightlifting program. After all, novelty-sized youth lifters turn into larger than life Olympic... Continue reading
True or false: Core Stability Training Can Help to Cure Your Back Pain
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard everyone from physical therapists and personal trainers to women’s magazines and internet articles promising a “total body transformation&... Continue reading
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard everyone from physical therapists and personal trainers to women’s magazines and internet articles promising a “total body transformation&... Continue reading
Beyond Resolutions: Seven Things To Try In 2017
Every January, a slew of Americans who have gorged themselves over the holidays while binge watching some new Netflix series (hey, we’ve all been there) decide to turn over a new leaf and sign up for gym memberships. (Some of them even stick ar... Continue reading
Every January, a slew of Americans who have gorged themselves over the holidays while binge watching some new Netflix series (hey, we’ve all been there) decide to turn over a new leaf and sign up for gym memberships. (Some of them even stick ar... Continue reading
When You and Weightlifting Have Been On a Break
I haven’t lifted in a few months. Okay, that’s not strictly true, but I know I haven’t picked up a barbell more than four or five times in the last six months. It wasn’t like I planned to stop, but at some point, I stopped tur... Continue reading
I haven’t lifted in a few months. Okay, that’s not strictly true, but I know I haven’t picked up a barbell more than four or five times in the last six months. It wasn’t like I planned to stop, but at some point, I stopped tur... Continue reading
Post-Meet Training: So Much Room For Activities!
I’m writing this article on my laptop, sitting on a plane flying to the 2016 American Open in Orlando, Florida. It’s a long flight from Phoenix, and I decided to spend the time putting together some information you should be able to use. ... Continue reading
I’m writing this article on my laptop, sitting on a plane flying to the 2016 American Open in Orlando, Florida. It’s a long flight from Phoenix, and I decided to spend the time putting together some information you should be able to use. ... Continue reading
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