When it comes to calisthenics training, there’s no shortage of pull and push exercises. Beginners and masters alike can amuse themselves with countless pushup and pull-up variations, as well as a number of horizontal pulls and vertical pushes. While the upper body is heavily featured in every single calisthenics photo shoot or video, there’s very […]
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Despite the pull-up being far removed from the usual heavyweight iron culture of most powerlifting gyms, it’s a staple in nearly any lifter’s program, much more so than the push-up. Pull-ups continue to be a useful exercise for powerlifters who need a movement for the antagonist muscles in the press and bench press, and they
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The pushup is the quintessential resistance exercise. Perhaps not in terms of effectiveness, but certainly in terms of reputation. It’s a dead-simple exercise and can be done on the fly, like many other calisthenics movements. But its simplicity doesn’t diminish its usefulness. While many powerlifting beginners tend to neglect their pushups once they discover the
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Powerlifters eat what they need to eat based on the goals they’ve set for themselves. While a powerlifting diet is often either misconstrued to somehow require more protein, or less sugar, or more junk food, or any similar such nonsense, the truth is that there is no magic nutritional bullet for most powerlifters. I’d argue
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The sport of powerlifting is one where competitors can choose to compete in a variety of weight, age, and equipment classes, and through a variety of federations. Some smaller federations are part of a greater family, and others exist on their own. Any federation can sanction a meet, set its own rules, and declare records.
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The deadlift is the king of exercises for most raw lifters, in the sense that if you don’t pay your dues and bow before the “king”, your total is going to suffer greatly. However, more so than squats or bench presses, I’d argue that deadlifts take the most out of any lifter, especially when performed
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Lifters either have a love or hate relationship with the bench press. Some people are gifted with the leverages and natural strength needed to press big weight. Others languish under the bar and curse the lift as their absolute worst. While it’s possible to have a “poverty squat” and a “poverty deadlift”, you’re much more
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In the sport of powerlifting, the squat and deadlift put the most kilos into your powerlifting total. Yet while practicing your competition squats is the most effective way to improve your squat, accessory exercises for squats can help you address weaknesses, identify and eliminate sticking points, and vary up your training. Sticking point squat accessories
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While powerlifting is a sport of just three lifts, and most powerlifters (especially beginners) spend most of their training time on the big three, accessory exercises are as important to a powerlifter as butter on bread. There are many different accessory exercises for powerlifting, but I will go over the most important ones for the
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Powerlifting is a sport that relies on a 20kg barbell, at least 2.20m in length, with a diameter of 28-29mm. Some federations use longer and/or thinner bars, but barbells are central to the sport, as they are in weightlifting. As such, you cannot do powerlifting with dumbbells. You cannot compete in powerlifting with dumbbells. But
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It’s an age-old question that many beginners ask themselves – if part of getting stronger is having bigger muscles, why is it that powerlifters are stronger than bodybuilders while usually being less muscular? Is it the drugs they take? Are bodybuilders really just bloated up? Are powerlifters even big? And are bodybuilders even strong? Bodybuilders
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Yes, you can get injuries from squatting. That doesn’t make squats bad for your knees, your back, or your body. Just to set the record straight: any lift can injure you grievously, and whether or not you’ll get injured while lifting weights is a question of sex, previous medical history, training history, and a couple
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