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Lose Fat, Gain Muscle, Get Strong, and Laugh a Little – Installment 2
Time to learn and laugh – and hopefully lose fat and gain muscle in the process.
1. Here’s a great study that shows that scapular dyskinesis in swimmers is magnified as training duration increases. I think that we all assume that you either have a scapular dyskinesis or you don’t – but the truth is that [...]
High Performance Training without the Equipment: Installment 2
It goes without saying that one of the absolute best ways to strengthen the posterior rotator cuff is through a variety of cable external rotation variations.
Unfortunately – as you may have inferred from the title of this post – not everyone has access to a cable column or functional trainer where exercises like this can [...]
Quads Pulls, Regular Joes Getting Athletic, and Why Your Coach Might be a Schmuck
Today’s peek back to the archives brings us an interesting assortment of articles you should check out:
Quad Pulls in Baseball – Why do they happen? And, what are they really? This old post of mine actually gets a ton of traffic – presumably because a lot of people run into “quad pulls” quite frequently and [...]
Managing Sidearm and Submarine Pitchers
Q: I just saw your post about Strasberg and pitching injuries. This may be hopelessly naive, but – do “submarine” throwers face the same perils? I’m old enough to remember Kent Telkulve, so it made me think. It seems as though I see a fair number of throws from SS and 3B positions that appear [...]
Quick Fixes to Common Training Injuries
Call it a law of weightlifting: no matter how careful you are, at some point you’re gonna get hurt. Now you probably won’t decapitate yourself with a barbell or tear a pec or even rupture your spleen—the weightlifter’s [...]
