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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Reimagining a Pain-Free and Productive Chaturanga
I like to get to know someone a little bit before I get to know their chaturanga. It can be a sensitive subject. Often, two yogis will imagine it in two totally different ways, but both will be sure their way is certain.
And, like most things when we’re certain, change is slow to come by. However, in this case, change might be just the thing needed to keep chaturanga pain free and productive.
Intuitive Eating: Are You Listening to Your Body's Signals?
Shh. Do you hear it? It’s speaking - your body. If you are like most people, you missed it: your own body and its signals.
Some of these signals may sound (or feel) like this:
- Growling stomach
- Headache or lightheadedness
- Shakiness
- Clouded thinking
- Fatigue
Cleaning Up Your Dirty Clean: It's All About Technique
The rising popularity of Olympic weightlifting has led to many newcomers and ex-athletes exchanging their spin bikes for barbells. Unfortunately, the level of coaching and analysis needed to teach and progress an athlete's technique is lacking - leading to a whole slew of nasty, dirty, and sometimes unsafe cleans.
7 Reasons Youth Athletes Need to Strength Train
Young athletes are sustaining injuries they never should because we are not properly preparing them for the sport they are playing at the intensity they are asked to.
Monday, March 16, 2015
SS Weekly Report March 16, 2015
The Starting Strength Weekly Report 2015-03-16: Topics from the Forums: “Normal healthy aging” and “Deadlift technique” . This week Under the Bar: PRs, rehab, learning the model.
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Tinkering Trainers
CrossFit coaches detail their successful and unsuccessful programming experiments in the search for measurable, observable and repeatable results.
CrossFit athletes are a skeptical bunch. They like to experiment and tinker and tweak. For Kurtis Bowler that meant messing around with strength-biased programming for his affiliate, Rainier CrossFit.
“Every year or year-and-a-half, there’s an influx of newer people,” said the owner of the 10-year-old gym in Washington state.
And with new people come new ideas—or old ideas made new again. Inevitably, they want to try other training methods besides the standard group programming to improve their fitness. Bowler is happy to oblige.
“I have found that the best way for them to learn that that stuff doesn’t work (in improving overall fitness) is for them to give it a go.”
So he steps aside, lets them have their moment and then encourages them “to look at the numbers.” At the end of the day, data always wins.
“I have found that we always come back to just programming CrossFit,” said Bowler, who is on CrossFit’s Level 1 Seminar Staff.
Many affiliates have fiddled with programming over the years. Sometimes coaches initiated the change. Other times it was members. In either case, box owners said they came out of the experience with a renewed appreciation for Greg Glassman’s original prescription.
“For the fitness that we are pursuing, every parameter within your control needs to be modulated to broaden the stimulus as much as possible,” Glassman wrote in “What Is Fitness?” “Your body will only respond to an unaccustomed stressor; routine is the enemy of progress and broad adaptation. Don’t subscribe to high reps, or low reps, or long rests, or short rests, but strive for variance.”
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