Category: Power Lifting



World powerlifting championships, ghent, belgium, the GPC
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World powerlifting championships, ghent, belgium, the GPC

It’s amazing how quickly twelve weeks of your life can come and go when preparing for a large sporting event. I can remember being twelve weeks out from the 2006 GPC world championships, thinking twelve sessions of each lift left, I have bags of time. How wrong was I!   I had sweated blood leading [...]


Estimate maintenance caloric intake
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Estimate maintenance caloric intake

Question: If you would allow me a brief intro . . . my name is Leland Hammonds and I am a 29 year old Kinesiology professor here in San Antonio, Texas. I also own my own personal training business. For the last three years, I have spent approx three hours a day, six days a [...]


Overview of metabolic rate
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Overview of metabolic rate

In the article You Are Not Different, I made reference to the concept of energy balance and it’s time to expand on that concept. In the most simplistic form, we can define energy balance as Energy balance = energy in – energy out.   Energy in is food, since this is the only place that [...]


Increase Your Bench Press By 200%
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Increase Your Bench Press By 200%

When I was younger, I was obsessed with getting big. And, being an instant gratification-loving American teen, I wanted to get big now. Also being a noob to training, I decided to hit up my old pal Google for the ‘best’ workout program (that is, the routinethat would get me the results I was looking for [...]


Understanding Drop Sets For Muscle Building
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Understanding Drop Sets For Muscle Building

Even though drop sets are claimed as part of the Weider System (what isn’t?), they were originally called the multi poundage system by their creator, Henry Atkins, editor of Body Culture magazine, in 1947. Since then, they have become known as strip sets, the stripping method, descending sets and down the rack or running the [...]


3 Simple Tests to Find out if you are Fit
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3 Simple Tests to Find out if you are Fit

Ask 10 experts for their definition of fitness, and you’ll hear 10 different answers. That’s because how you define the word depends on the type of performance you expect. Some athletes need to develop a particular type of fitness over all others—powerlifters at one extreme, marathoners at another—but most of us are at our best [...]