Uncommon Success · Extreme Generalisation – Better Skills Beyond PRO LIFE ‘24 These are two big decisions I’ve made in 2024. Charles Poliquin coached more world champions than any Strength Coach in history by adding uncommon amounts of strength & muscle to athletes. While there is still room to improve in this area for most athletes there is much more awareness in athletics about the essential nature of strength training to win. Areas that are
If you can’t GET TO a Position… You can’t be STRONG in that position! More range gives you options. Apply Knees Over Toes or ATG principles to the Chest, Shoulders & Biceps To Improve All Pulling & Curling Movements. It’s true that weight training makes you tight and fragile but only if you neglect the LONG RANGE. If you want to perform feats like one arm chin-ups, back levers, sefto curls and bodyweight
Pain-free Dips by the Uncommon Succes Coach We could consider the pain-free dip the squat of the upper body. There’s benefits by having a deep dip ability. But just because we want it, doesn’t mean we can have it immediately. Like everything, there is a safe way of getting dips step-by-step. It’s crucial to keep your joints healthy in the process. Think regress in order to progress. Especially for the dips! Following are a
If you behave like an Olympic champion, you will be successful like one in life. Here are the 6 key ways you can make that shift. #1 You Have An Olympic Opportunity! Professional athletes prepare all year, hoping they can play for the championship ring or the trophy. It’s easy to see their financial and social incentives for living well and being better at their craft. Most people think if they were in the
Calculate your muscle number and also what change you will need to make in FAT-LOSS and MUSCLE-GAIN to achieve your optimal physique. Are you too fat or too small to look the way you want to look? A problem quantified is a problem half solved. This test is great for: 80 Muscle Number = Untrained In Muscle Building Untrained level of muscle mass or an athlete focused on endurance sport or being very light eg.
Let’s face it. Most people have a completely dormant upper body. You could even say dead. Now your legs will get some work just moving the rest of you around. Even those of us who master the art of finding the closest park at the shopping centre will still get some calf and thigh development getting around and, actually, the more body weight someone is carrying the more of a strength stimulus it is to
Beginners at snatch will progress fastest and most effectively with methods that are different and even contradictory to advanced weightlifting. Everyone deserves movement. The elitist culture around weightlifting has for the most part been broken by CrossFit but most CrossFitters still haven’t hit this beginner milestone of a bodyweight snatch even though they may have aspirations for local or regional competitions. Outside CrossFit weightlifting has made little penetration into mainstream gyms even though many of
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