Olympic Weightlifting: Catalyst Athletics

	One Hundred Issues of the Performance Menu Robb Wolf \| May 1 2013 \| Business WOW! I’ve written a number of technical pieces for the PM over the years, and I had some ideas along this line when Greg asked me to make a contribution to this historic issue. I love the technical pieces as I get to stretch my legs a bit intellectually and I think these efforts help to elevate the games of trainers, coaches and the curious layperson. But this time I wanted to indulge myself...

	Ask Greg: Issue 100 Greg Everett \| May 1 2013 \| Ask Greg *Lynn Asks:* Hi Greg, I don't know if this is mostly in women, but I'd love an article or an answer about setting up with excessive arching in the lower back. Many people, when they learned how to lift, learned to arch the back instead of finding some type of neutral pelvis. Because most women are so flexible in the hamstrings it seems like this allows us to set up in a...

	Simplify: Sprint Your Way to Elite Conditioning Matthew Miller \| May 1 2013 \| Strength You can purchase a lot of equipment to increase your work capacity and recovery time, but one of the best ways to get into the best cardiovascular shape of your life is simply to sprint. It does not cost you anything and the benefits are countless. To get started on this 8-week conditioning program, you really only need two things: 1. Open space to sprint 2. Effort

	When Lifting, Think Down Not Out to Get Under the Bar Mark Kaelin \| May 1 2013 \| Olympic Weightlifting Renewed interest in Olympic lifting has student athletes all over the country hoisting weights over their heads looking to improve their athletic performance. One common problem I see all the time in these folks is poor receiving position. Rather than aggressively moving under the bar by lowering the hips, new lifters jump out or spread their legs apart to get under the weight. Unfortunately, in t...

	6 Steps To Better Delegate, Manage, and Grow a Team Sean Greeley \| May 1 2013 \| Business One of the toughest things to do as a coach and business owner is grow beyond yourself. You invest years in acquiring the knowledge required for client/athlete assessment and program design, then several more learning the art of working with human beings and guiding them to achieve a goal. Much like a surgeon, you are a highly skilled expert at what you do. The only problem is there is a limit on ...

	How Coaches Are Failing Our Kids – And What You Can Do To Help Yael Grauer \| May 1 2013 \| General Fitness & Training I was never athletic growing up. Sure, I rode my bicycle around the block and splashed around the pool at my local YMCA, but I never exercising for the fun and challenge of it. I wasn’t much good at it, and didn’t think I could be. I wasn’t like the jocks at school. They were picked first on any team, they’d stay late after school whenever they could to play one more game o...

	Misdiagnosis: Tendinitis Jen Sinkler \| May 1 2013 \| Recovery & Injury Management Though I’d felt a small flutter for at least a month, I felt a twinge of real pain in my left knee during an indoor practice at a small, local college in Bethlehem, Pa., in 2003. The U.S. women’s national 7s team had gathered together from across the country for a week of practice before our annual excursion to the Hong Kong 7s, our third international tournament that year. It was stil...

	For Peak Performance, Think Outside the Gym Mark Sisson \| May 1 2013 \| Health & Wellness A faded blue knee sleeve that’s fraying at the edges. Worn, broken-in belts supple as a newborn calf’s inner thigh. Scattered daylight filtered through airborne chalk dust. The metallic zing of barbells whipping around, the triumphant dumping of cleans, jerks, and snatches like so many aftershocks. It’s a romantic image, isn’t it - the weight room? For many, it’s wher...

	We’re On This Road Together: Performance Menu at 100 Matt Foreman \| May 1 2013 \| Olympic Weightlifting Let me tell you a little something about how I got involved with this magazine. Back in 2008, I went out to San Diego to compete in the California State Games. I live in Arizona, but my wife and I were taking a summer vacation in SoCal and I wanted to get in a meet while we were there. I was in the warm-up room at the competition, getting ready to start lifting, when Aimee Anaya approached me and ...

	The Elements of a Weightlifting Teaching Progression Greg Everett \| May 1 2013 \| Olympic Weightlifting The development of a teaching progression for the Olympic lifts is something that every coach who teaches the lifts will do one way or another—some will never move past the borrowing from others stage (which is fine, of course), others will gradually develop one over a long period of time (sometimes intentionally, sometimes just naturally), and others will set out right out of the gate to cr...

	Recipes: Issue 100 Scott Hagnas \| May 1 2013 \| Recipes Quick Paleo Pancakes The first recipe that I wrote for the Performance Menu was Apple Cinnamon Paleo Pancakes. They were tasty, but a bit cumbersome to cook. I have since perfected a much quicker method, while keeping the flavor. Time: 10 minutes • 2 eggs • 1/2 C unsweetened applesauce • 1/2 C nut b...

	Supplements That Don’t Work as You Intended (But May for Other Reasons) Kurtis Frank \| May 1 2013 \| Nutrition Go to any drug store, and you will likely find an aisle full of supplements, all promising a healthier you. You've probably seen ads and doctors telling you how secret supplement X is all you need to unlock your potential. Is there any truth to these grandiose claims? We decided to look at some, but with a twist--instead of just saying what works or doesn't, we wanted to cover supplements that do ...

	When to Foam Roll Jennifer Wilson \| May 1 2013 \| Recovery & Injury Management There are lots of theories relating to flexibility training for power and strength. A large part of this is self-myofascial release, which is achieved through the use of a foam roller. The application of an ischemic pressure, as seen when using a foam roller, is thought to release adhesions in soft tissue through the stimulation of sensory-motor receptors in muscle and connective tissue. However, ...