TBT: Back in the '70's, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was an East and West Germany and the East Germans were particularly strong in weightlifting. This article from a 1977 Strength and Health explaining their system.
"A lot of people ask how to get started in the field, whether it be in strength and conditioning or sports science, and the first thing you want to do is really just go and volunteer and see if you even like it."
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"If you're doing something like sprinting, there's nothing in the gym that's going to match the demands of sprinting, but we can train all the lower body musculature so that it's ready to undergo sprinting and the forces that it's going to encounter when sprinting." - Chris
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2010 Hammer Clinic: CD's given out as a follow up to the Hammer Strength Clinics. Great lineup of speakers! At this one, I didn't speak, but was there hawking my WerkSan Barbell merchandise.
Zen and the Martial Arts: I'm not a martial arts guy by any means (although wrestling was and still is a major interest for me), but I am always looking for more secrets to improving the mental game.
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