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Smart from the Start
"I wish I could have my first year of training back." How many times have you heard an experienced trainee say that? Likewise, how many times has a newbie come up to you and asked you to help him get [...]
Random Friday Thoughts: 12/5/2008
1. I have seen a lot of guys who have hamstrings pulls in their health histories, but I don't recall ever coming across any studies that show that shooting yourself in the leg expedites recovery time. The sad truth is [...]
Relative Strength Improvements on Maximum Strength
I received this email earlier this week: Eric, I am a longtime follower of T-Nation and picked up your book, Maximum Strength, this past summer. I just finished with Moving Day and want to thank you for my great results [...]
Training the Baseball Catcher
Q: I'm a personal trainer who just started training a couple of baseball catchers. I understand that your facility specializes in training baseball players. I just want to know if you guys have any tips, or recommend any resources to [...]
FFL Week 13: One Step Closer to Glory…
I won 105-50 this week to move to 8-5 and second my spot as the third seed in the playoffs. For the record, I was the high scorer in the league, too. How you like them apples? Poor Tony was [...]
Cyber Monday Sale!
Mike Robertson just brought to my attention that the Monday after Thanksgiving is known as Cyber Monday because it's the biggest day of the year for online sales. So, particularly with the economy the way it is, we decided to [...]
The Truth About Shoulder Impingement: Part 2
In Part I, I went into some detail on why I really didn’t like the catch-all term “shoulder impingement.” This week, I’m going to talk about the different kinds of shoulder impingement: external and internal. External impingement, also known as [...]
Random Friday Thoughts: 11/28/08
I'm writing this blog on Tuesday night, as I'm pretty sure that my mind will be a bit hazy after the insulin-induced coma that follows my Thanksgiving feast. 1. While I've had a week-long argument with my new website set-up, [...]
Unstable Surface Training for Hockey
In a blog last week, I discussed how important it is to differentiate between unstable surfaces and destabilizing torques applied further up the kinetic chain, as they comprise different kinds of instability training. I receive a great question in response [...]
