“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
Archive | March, 2015
My First Arnold Sports Festival
For those of you who have never heard of it, the Arnold Sports Festival is like Lollapalooza for athletics. Held in Columbus, Ohio, 50 some odd sports have exhibitions/contests and there is a giant arena of vendors with all things gym related. While the aesthetic sports predominate (because Arnold), it’s a Pan Am qualifier […]
How To Learn How to Snatch in Under 3 Minutes
I had a friend in a private Facebook group ask my advice on learning how to snatch. Like so many people, she was stuck with analysis paralysis. Every tutorial I’ve ever seen makes snatching seem sooooooo hard. And at some level, it is. For people who are trying to have technically proficient and maximally mechanically […]
Pistol Squats
If you look back through some old posts you’ll see that fixing my wonky squat has been a project for the last year. I have (I think, after much research and contemplation) weak thigh abductors relative to adductors and a weak glute on the left, weak quad on the right. These imbalances may be due […]