I’ll be the first to admit that I lack the data for it, but I’m willing to go on a limb and assume that most of my readers live largely sedentary lives, myself included. Some of us might have experiences with back pain, and some of us will attribute a decrease in back pain with […]
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I don’t typically go for titles like these, but I feel like powerlifting recovery is one my pet topics insofar that I find it’s fairly underrated because we don’t like to talk much about it. Recovery isn’t sexy or fun unless someone finds a way to make it sexy and fun, but that way tends
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Statistically, powerlifting injuries occur less often than weightlifting injuries among regularly training and competing athletes, and far less often than contact sport injuries (from football to boxing). However, they still occur. An avid powerlifter is statistically likely to get hurt at least once in a thousand hours of active practice/training, if not a little more
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A deload is a scheduled week (or more) off from regular training. Most deloads don’t have you stay out of the gym entirely, but instead, encourage you to lift lighter, usually something similar to doing singles, triples, or sets of 5 with 60-70% of your 1RM, or skipping the big three entirely and doing assistance
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As a general rule of thumb, I advise you to avoid powerlifting when sick. Sure, getting your training hours in is important, but if you genuinely feel like crap, chances are that your body is currently busy heavily investing resources in fighting off an infection. Mild exercise might actually do you some good, or it
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Injury prevalence is higher among the deadlift than any other lift, yet studies on injuries are quite low for deadlifting, versus squatting or bench pressing. From what we do know, however, research points to high load and overall intensity rather than bad form as the primary factor behind injuries (with poor form simply accelerating the
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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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Let’s get some things out of the way. I’m not an epidemiologist, a medical expert, a sports scientist, a doctor, or anything even remotely similar to these things. I’m a guy who lifts weight and writes articles. But with basic common sense in our back pocket, I can safely suggest that if you’re worried about
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The hardest thing about lifting isn’t programming, or eating right, or even the lifting itself. It’s the consistency. Anyone can, if they really put their mind to it, finish a hard workout. But to do so thrice or four or five or six times a week, week after week, for months, years, and decades, is
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Using an ice bath for recovery or getting into a long hot sauna session have been go-to recovery tools for athletes for a long time, but how useful are they actually? Is there a reason to use cryotherapy, or cold thermogenesis as it’s sometimes known, as a recovery tool? Or should you go with a
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It’s a pretty common myth, surprisingly – the worry among male athletes that being with a woman might pull the strength out of their legs, and the belief among many men that avoiding sexual activity (and that not masturbating) is the key to a strength and serenity. For Samson, it was his hair. For the
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The foam roller is either the subject of great ridicule or reverence. Some people say it’s absolutely the best thing since sliced bread, and others put it up there with kipping pullups and three-hour warmups. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve flip-flopped on foam rollers quite a bit. Unsure of where they fit
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