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Two new articles.
First, a deep dive into the getup that will be especially interesting for those of you who are doing them with heavy weights (or who aspire to do so):
Next, an article that discusses the speed at which you move the weight in your training - some of its conclusions may surprise you!
First, a deep dive into the getup that will be especially interesting for those of you who are doing them with heavy weights (or who aspire to do so):
The Get-up and the Shoulder Mobility Dilemma | StrongFirst
The get-up is one of the foundational exercises of kettlebell training. I suspect that most people who follow StrongFirst are quite familiar with this exercise. If you are a StrongFirst Certified SFG Instructor, then no doubt you have done many repetitions of them on your own and at your...
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Next, an article that discusses the speed at which you move the weight in your training - some of its conclusions may surprise you!
Will You Gain More Strength by Varying Your Lifting Speed? | StrongFirst
Over a century ago Ivan Lebedev, a big name in strength training in imperial Russia, suggested selecting the lifting speed based on one’s temperament: a slower one for the easily excitable, a fast one for the melancholics and the phlegmatics, a medium one for the sanguine.1 His instructions...
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