Powerlfiting – Cast Iron Strength

04 Sep

Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Professional Resources

Subterranean lizard people are infiltrating the fitness industry! – William Brown

Posted by Marc Keys
bloomberg group, illuminate, memes, Rant, reptilians, woke
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Subterranean lizard people are infiltrating the fitness industry! What follows is a mildly informative rant on vetting fitness professionals smothered in memes and non-contextual nerd references. All similarities to persons/reptiles living or dead are very...

25 Jul

Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Powerlifting Technique, Programme, women

Programming Considerations for the female powerlifter – Will Brown

Posted by Marc Keys
female powerlifting, how to train around mentrual cycle, Powerlifting, training for female, women
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It's that time of the month again!For a sweet article, of course! Seriously though, we're going to be examining the details that ladies who lift should take into consideration when building a programme. Including,...

06 Jun

Powerlfiting, Programme

The Best Assistance Exercises for Powerlifting and why you need them in your programme.

Posted by Marc Keys
Assistance, Back, Bodybuilding, Exercixses, front squat, Row, WG Pull up
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Almost all of my writing tends to be on the bigger picture things like programming, why to choose specific exercises over non-specific or technique when it comes to powerlifting. I am guilty of not...

31 May

Deadlift, Powerlfiting, Programme

Training your deadlift if you have poor technique – how to get stronger without getting hurt.

Posted by Marc Keys
Deadlift, Deadlift Programme, deadlift strength, how to fix your lowerback, Stronger Deadlift, Sumo Deadlift, Training
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When I take my powerlifting seminar and we get onto the deadlift this is my first slide you will notice how I don’t mention how the deadlift is the king of strength or the...

06 Feb

Powerlfiting, Professional Resources, Strength and Conditioning, Strength and Conditioning Research, Strongman

Five Strength Training “Corner Stones” That are Actually Gimmicks in Disguise.

Posted by Marc Keys
Conditioning, Powerlifting, strength, Strength and conditioning
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I’ve started listening to the stone cold Steve Austin podcast which is excellent by the way Stone Cold is probably the only person I reckon who is actually as cool as they come across...

16 Nov

Learning, Opinion, Powerlfiting, Rugby, Strength and Conditioning

The difference between knowledge and performance – Let’s talk about what it actually takes to become a better lifter.

Posted by Marc Keys
Becoming Elite, Coaching, Feedback, mastering powerlifting, Mastering Weightlifting, Mastery, Performance, Powerlifting, weightlifting
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The majority of this article is inspired by the frankly excellent book Peak by Anders Ericsson whose body of work is in skill learning and the achievement of expert status or mastery. A lot...

18 Apr

Fitness, Novice, Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Programme

Learning when to push through and when to pull back as a self coached lifter.

I’m what you might refer to as a self made man in the gym pretty much for 90% of my 12 year lifting life I have written my own programmes and devised my own...

16 Nov

Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Strength and Conditioning

The Powerlifter’s Off Season

Posted by Marc Keys
Injury Prevention, Off Season, Perodisation, Pilates, Planning, Programming, Recovery, Stretching, Yoga
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I've worked with sports men and women for nearly a decade now I have worked with Olympians, International team sports stars and youth athletes who have never stepped in a gym before. One thing...

16 Sep

Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Programme

Training to Build Strength not Display it.

If you want to be strong you have to lift heavy all of the time right? You need to provide constant overload in the form of one more rep or one more kilogramme week...

15 Dec

back squat, Box Squat, EMG, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Kinematic Analysis, Powerlfiting, Sports Science, Strength and Conditioning, Weighlifting

The Box Squat and Back Squat Kinematic Analysis

Posted by Marc Keys

McBride et al recently produced a study (JSCR, DEC, 2010) comparing the kinematics of both the box squat and back squat. The tested on 8 competitive male powerlifters using 1 rep at 60,...

14 Aug

Expo, Glasgow, Mikhail Koklyaev, Olympic weightlifting, Palace of Arts, Powerlfiting, Strongman, Weight Training, Worlds Strongest Man

Mikhail Koklyaev comes to Glasgow

Posted by Marc Keys

Mikhail Koklyaev came to the glasgow palace of Arts to put on a show for that the UK strength community. There where some 70 people in attendance to witness the man lift and...

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