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Creating A Long-Term Training Plan And Macrocycles

Michael Hulcher Breaking Muscle One of the things I’ve come to learn in teaching seminars at Gym Jones is that many people don’t have an understanding of how to put together multiple training phases into a cohesive year (or macrocyle) of training. The major difficulty in explaining the concept of a macrocycle is that everyone has both …

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5 Best Compound Exercises for the Biceps

From Cathe How strong are your biceps and what are you doing to make them stronger? It’s easy to get into a biceps training rut! One reason this happens is that we focus too much on biceps curls! When you’re trying to build biceps, curls are likely the first exercise that comes to mind. However, …

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The Ultimate Sumo Deadlift Guide

Elsie Doss Cut and Jacked The sumo deadlift is an adaptation of the conventional deadlift. It happens to be a little more technical than others so learning may take some time. The few subtle changes causing the exercise to have different muscular benefits help this deadlift to be a bit easier, however. Just what muscles …

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Throwing cold water on ice baths: Avoid this strategy for repairing or building muscle

Science Daily Successful athletes such as Andy Murray and Jessica Ennis-Hill are known for using ice baths after exercise, however new research has thrown cold water on this strategy. New research suggests that ice baths aren’t helpful for repairing and building muscle over time, because they decrease the generation of protein in muscles. That’s according …

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Smarter Programming for the Competitive CrossFitter

Jason Brown Elite FTS The average competitive CrossFitter these days has impressive stats. Being able to run a sub-six-minute mile and deadlift 500 pounds isn’t a huge deal anymore. In the strength and conditioning world, you would seldom hear of athletes that possess both explosive and enduring qualities. When I was an intern at a strength and conditioning …

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Training the Lats in Dao

Jordan Shallow Elite FTS We spent the better part of my last few coaching logs trying to differentiate muscle functions for muscle actions. Here, we’re defining function as how a muscle works when we’re walking and breathing, which are two core tenants of human function. This becomes a fundamental difference between training for strength and training for stability. Isolated muscle action, which is …

Creating A Long-Term Training Plan And Macrocycles

5 Best Compound Exercises for the Biceps

The Ultimate Sumo Deadlift Guide

Throwing cold water on ice baths: Avoid this strategy for repairing or building muscle

Smarter Programming for the Competitive CrossFitter

Training the Lats in Dao

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