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Peak Mental Performance Podcast — How to Use Visualization
In this episode of the Peak Mental Performance Podcast, Dr. Steve Graef, Counseling and Sports Psychologist for The Ohio State University Athletics, defines visualization and gives steps to use it to improve athletic performance.
Sisyphus Stumbles
During the second double of a floor press training session, his pec tears. The bar crashes to the safety pins, inches above his face. For at least the twentieth time, the Collegiate Power Rack saves his ass.
WATCH: Learning the Strongman Jerk
Improving the jerk is all about getting the reps, trusting your technique, and not being afraid to miss reps.
3 Ab Exercises for Powerlifting and Strongman
To perform these exercises correctly, you need to learn how to breathe and brace properly. But once you do, it will pay off big time.
Empowering Intellectuals: Reclaiming the Body — Muscularity, Bone Density, and Lifestyle
In part one I addressed some general definitions and discussed the issues of age group, level of activity, previous training experience, and body fat. Now we address muscularity, injuries, bone density, and the lifestyle factors that impact your health.
My Top Five Posterior Chain Exercises and Why You Need To Do Them
These exercises will provide you with a great deal of return on investment. They will not only make you stronger but also healthier and more stable in the squat, bench press, and deadlift.
5 Ways You're Rejecting Self Improvement As A Coach
I recently started going through some old boxes and found an article I printed and saved when I coached at Denison. The information was pertinent for coaches then and it still is now.
Empowering Intellectuals: Reclaiming the Body
It is a challenge amongst intellectuals to talk about the human body in ways that won't immediately elicit an ideological defensive reaction. But we can try.
6 Steps to Landing An Internship
Are you willing to stand out? Are you willing to do what it takes to get where you want to be?
Set the Standard
Change 'I' to 'we' and now you really have something: a team, with everyone working toward a common cause.
The Meathead’s Guide to Passing the CISSN Exam
The CISSN test is notorious for being very difficult. I know many who have failed it, multiple times. So of course I wanted to get it. Go big or go home. Here's how I did it.
Applications and Benefits of Tempo Training
Tempo training has the potential to be highly specialized to meet whatever metabolic demands, fiber type, or performance goal an athlete wants to develop.