Interview from summer 2011 How a Coach turned around a nation’s speed skating team… Anyone who has ever attended a Strengthtraining Seminar anywhere in the world in the last 1,5 years has probably met Germany’s Wolfgang Unsöld. He’s completed 21 courses in that time. Such knowledge, along with his growing reputation as[…]
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One of the main factors that holds most trainee’s progress back is perfect exercise execution and technique. Which directly creates one of the main challenges of every Strength Coach and Personal Trainer – to teach your clients and athletes perfect exercise execution and technique that is sustainable. „Practice doesn’t make[…]
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Regularly I get asked why I regularly do recommend doing Back Squats with elevated heels…. Simple answer: Because this variation has its advantages…. 3 Advantages of Back Squats with elevated heels 1. Increased Recruitment of the Vastus Medialis Elevating the heels allows for the knees to pass the toes to a[…]
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A holiday gets associated with rest and recovery – not in this case. This one is grueling. It is composed of 18 training sessions in 6 days – and all you do is squat. The inspiration for the squat holiday came from one of the if not the most productive routines[…]
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The intent of the Before’n’After Files is to give more insight into the training, nutrition and supplementation of our clients Before’n’After successes.. This time it’s German U18 Rugby National team Player Frederick Lütchke’s 30-week preparation for the U18 Rugby European Championships Nutrition and Supplementation 7:00 Wake up ¼ Tsp. Himalayan[…]
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One of the major challenges in every seminar is to maximize information retention. One can assume that the average listener remembers only between 10-20% of the information given in a lecture. That’s too little. Way too little. By using some easy tricks, there‘ s chance to increase information retention up[…]
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Over the last years I have been asked numerous times about the Butt Wink. My answer is simple: The Butt Wink is to strength training, what butter is to nutrition. It has a bad reputation for no substantial reason… What is the Butt Wink? A posterior tilt of the pelvis[…]
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1. In the end, the only thing that matters is progress Strength training is a numbers game. In the end, 4 numbers matter: RM load lifted, total load lifted, lean mass and bodyfat percentage. The first being the most important to ensure progress in the other 3. Especially in the[…]
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1. Carbs are neither good, nor bad – they are necessary, if you deserve them The 121kg Bodybuilder at 6% will tell you that you have to have carbs. Does that advice count for 86kg guy at 21%? Definetly not. Its not about carbs being good or bad. Assuming that[…]
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The statement is simple – Endurance is the most overrated of all sports specific qualities. Why? Because endurance is neither necessary nor the limiting factor in most sports. Conditioning is. Where is the difference? Definition of Endurance and Conditioning as follows: Endurance is the ability to maintain a certain effort with[…]
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