Train the Mind for Increased Strength

by Tommy Suggs

“This is how I trained my mind to help me become a more efficient lifter.  If I had it all to do over the only thing I would do different would be to begin training my mind earlier in my career.  One thing for sure, I would never consider training seriously or going to a contest without first training my mind.” 

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Death by Prowler

by Matt Reynolds

“The Prowler is simply the best tool ever invented for conditioning. It’s simple. It’s cheap. It’s completely concentric, leads to little increased fatigue, doesn’t contribute to systemic inflammation, and yet it’s still harder than anything else.”

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Youngsters Need Strength Too, Part 2

by Bill Starr

“I also want to point out that youngsters need to be pushed in order for their bodies to respond to the stimulus of lifting weights. I’ve been to clinics where all the youngsters had in the way of weights were broomsticks or PVC pipes. Either of these are useful for warming up and drilling as part of the warm-up, but when they get into an exercise, put some weight on the bar. A broomstick or plastic pipe will not act like a weighted barbell so what is being learned with the light resistance doesn’t relate at all to doing a full squat, power clean, or press.”

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Quotes from Iron Mike Webster

by Colin Webster

“No one is a ‘natural’ anything.  Everyone has to start the same place you do, at the beginning, and learn from there. Just always remember there’s another guy working out there right now, to either beat you or take your place, and you’d better out-work him.”

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Reflections In Iron: Mike Webster’s Training Methods

by Colin Webster

“He remained able to literally uproot small trees, and one time I was doing deadlifts with 450 lbs., and he wandered in. I asked him a question about squats, and he proceeded to heave the weight up onto his deltoids and carry it over to that same crappy squat rack I wrote about earlier and set it down on the rack, so he could get under it and show me. I usually say he power-cleaned the weight, but really it was more of a sheer heave, since he had trouble with regular movements at that point, having several herniated discs in his back, a torn right rotator cuff, calcified feet and a heel that was literally in two pieces from having been broken and never allowed to heal properly. He played most of his career like that.”

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The 2011 National Weightlifting Championships

by Jim Moser

I compared our lifters to the first place finishers of last year’s World and Pan American Championships. The Olympic Games are right around the corner. The upcoming Pan Am and World Championships are qualifier meets for Olympic slots. It is important that our lifters do well at these events. Our results in these events will determine the representation of the USA at the upcoming Olympics.

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