Strength Training
5-1/2 Questions with Jen Heath: Post-Season Training
My favorite physique coach Jen Heath is back to share some advice on how to transition from your race season to off-season. Here’s a hint: It involves lifting some weights and being mindful of what you stick in your mouth.
The Great Experiment: Finding what’s left of my spine
The first week of my Great CrossFit/CrossFit Endurance Experiment has come to a conclusion with a literal bang. What a strange seven days it has been and new uncharted territory is being explored by yours truly. Sometimes life’s best lessons are the ones that cause the most pain. If that’s true, then this is becoming one of humdinger of an education.
The Anti-Christ endurance training plan
I’ve finally gotten around to writing about what my training approach will be for the 2009 racing season. It’s time to shake things up a bit. Partly out of necessity and partly out of a desire to see if what people say is true. Can an age-group athlete see a dramatic performance improvement by doing everything the near opposite of what the Gods of Triathlon have declared to be true? Will my Lycra be repoed?
The Return of Gentilcore: Lift heavy things and eat dead animal flesh
If you’ve successfully avoided the gym for yet another pre-season, then it’s still not too late to get your butt off the couch, or even off the trainer, and go move something heavy. After all, just how much more aerobic capacity do you need? Strength and conditioning coach Tony Gentilcore is back to share more of his wry wit on how you can incorporate strength training during the off season and if you don’t know your butt from a barbell, how to find the right trainer.
Kettlebells 102: Off-Season Basics with Mike Mahler
February typically marks the end of the off-season for most summer-based multisport athletes and before we head into more sport-specific training, I wanted to share a few conversations with some of America’s top strength and conditioning coaches. Today, we talk kettlebells with Mike Mahler.
Kettlebells 101 with “Skwigg”
Now, I’ve always been a proponent of leading a balanced life as a multisport athlete and that includes spending a fair amount of time in the gym moving heavy things. One fun way of doing that is with the use of a kettlebell. At first, they were considered quite faddish and now we see people like the mighty Lance Armstrong swinging a kettlebell as part of his recent comeback training protocol. Let’s take a look at some kettlebell basics.
Q&A with Craig Weller of Barefoot Fitness
“I’ve always gravitated towards the development of physical fitness. The body is the physical manifestation of one’s state of mind, so a strong mind equals a strong body and vice versa. Being fit, healthy, strong… whatever you want to call it; it’s so much more than some superficial aspect of life. It’s one of the most important things there is.”
Henry Rollins on Iron
“It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s [...]
Updates
Since it’s been a few weeks since I’ve provided any updates, here’s the latest of what’s happening on the home front, with training and this blogzine.
On muscular soreness…
“Waiting until soreness subsides before doing the next workout is a good way to guarantee that soreness will be produced every time, since you’ll never get adapted to sufficient workload frequency to stop getting sore.” — Mark Rippetoe, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
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