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About Marc Keys

As a coach Marc's philosophy uses a minamilast approach that yields superior performance gains. Having worked as a coach for over 7 years providing support for athletes from over 30 sports (Olympic, Paralympic and commonwealth medallists) he has plenty of time to learn his craft. Marc currently works full time as a strength coach based in Edinburgh. A competitive power lifter for 5 years some carrer highlights include (2011 - British and Commonwealth Senior Champion, 2012 World Championship squad member for great britian and former holder of 3 British records). Marc Coaches strength and power sports in his spare time and continues to develop castironstrength.

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Health Fitness and Success Podcast – Episode one – Das it Mane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRmZUMITMI This is a new bi-weekly podcast that I will be hosting with Benjamin Tormey on the topics of health, fitness and success.  Topics covered in the first episode Fructose corn syrup not evil :O Kevin Ogar and...

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Conditioning, Powerlifting, Strength Sports, Strongman, Weightlfting

Conditioning for strength and power sports. Part one building an aerobic base without affecting your strength and power training.

    Weightlifting and powerlifting are typically very static sports and don’t require a huge amount of aerobic capacity yet it is common practice for a lot of eastern European/Asian weightlifting programmes to have some...

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Weightlifting Hall of Fame Recent Inductees 1

Boyanka Kostova - 215 kg squat @ 58 kg bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vAbpve1cq4 Tuomas Hautala Raw 365 kg Deadlift - 21 years old 121 kg bw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzgbPbLkp3g Graham Hicks 300 kg Squat x 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-awjE5WfU Andrey Malanichev - 460KG raw squat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzbCEhZ4hnQ Adam Travis...

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Strength and Conditioning Research the TL;DR (too long didn’t read) version – Feubuary 2014

  The Importance of maximal leg strength and drop jump performance 15 female rugby players where tested for 1RM, Counter movment jump, Squat Jump and Drop jumps from various heights. The players where split into strong groups...

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