Peanut Butter: A Super Sports Food

In this day and age of energy bars, protein powders and weight gain shakes, many athletes forget about “real” foods, such as peanut butter. Peanut butter, in my opinion, is one of the best sports foods around. It’s tasty, inexpensive, satisfying, nourishing and even good for our health. But all too often, I hear athletes [...]

From the Walls of ICON Performance…How to Squat 1000 lb Routine – 24 Week Program

** This is obviously a very advanced squat program for elite level squatters only. This routine is the one that was derived by through a combination of several training protocols. I squatted 1038 about four years ago with this EXACT same routine. (I am referring to a gym lift which was not contest legal, but [...]

From the Walls of ICON Performance… Deadlift Specialization

**This routine is NOT for the beginner, but for someone with at least 6-12 months training experience with reasonably good technique (with few flaws) in the conventional deadlift ICON Performance Professional Sports, Fitness & Rehab Consultatnts Strength Sport Training Regiman Deadlift Specialization Workout – for the Conventional Deadlifter Back Day: Week One: Max Effort Movement: [...]

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The Overhead Deep Squat

A basic when it comes to performing the snatch. This is the way the Russians used to teach this particular Olympic lift (who knows what they do now) with mastering the Overhead Squat, or the Snatch Squat FIRST! The depth, the posture & the overhead stability all rolled into one artful movement. The overhead deep [...]

You might be a powerlifter if…….

1. You have trouble counting past 5. 2. You volunteer to mop the floor as an excuse to sniff the ammonia. 3. You think the ‘wonder bra’ is a new bench press aid. 4. You feel the Space Shuttle is A Rich Peters promotional gimmick. 5. You’ve ever stolen the baby powder off the diaper [...]

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Try a Training Protocol for Size and Strength Simultaneously!

This is a great spin-off a previous post for a training protocol that trains for both hypertrophy and sub-max strength in the same method. Obviously the method can only be used for the big six lifts. For those of you just starting to follow the blog, the BIG SIX are as follows: Bench Press Squat [...]