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With Superbowl XLVI on later tonight, I thought it would be good to share some of my favourite quotes from Bill Parcells.
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Reverse engineering the Olympic Lifts
Posted On Friday, 27th August 2010 at 05:43
If you have invested heavily in researching the Olympic lifts and read research conducted on mediocre athletes or sports science students over a 6 week period, then you may have to justify their use at all times.
This could be an emotional attachment. You then look to seek out others with your point of view and add confrimation bias to this. If this happens to be Academics, then they will only publish work that confirms their views, and get undergraduates, and Phd students to do likewise.
Olympic Weightlifting Tips: Neil Taylor
Posted On Saturday, 27th February 2010 at 06:57
Don’t over complicate these lifts
I have been performing the Olympic lifts since the age of 11, my coach at the time kept it simple, didn’t over complicate the movement and allowed for errors early on. With his expertise he helped me lift MY way and not the way the books said.
30 years down the line I have watched those lifts turn into a menu of biomechanical myths and mind numbing terminology. KEEP IT SIMPLE.
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