Elisabeth Oehler
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Performance Manager Combat Sports @teamsaudi | Prof Doc student @dcu_shhp |
Riyadh 🇸🇦
Joined December 2020
Technique is 🔑 . Before the questions start: He plays soccer, is an extremely physically active kid, he really enjoys weightlifting, he also plays tag and does obstacle courses at times. 🤗
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She did not receive funds from her country, two years ago she was publicly mocked for asking for private sponsorships on her social media to make the Olympic dream come true. Today she won the first ever Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. #Olympics . That jerk recovery. 🤩.
History made. Hidilyn Diaz has won the first ever #Olympics #Gold medal for #PHI!. Philippines had their national anthem played for the first time at the games today. 🥺 #Tokyo2020 .
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Technique is 🔑 #weightlifting . (I´m very excited to show you the full course on teaching the Olympic lifts to kids soon!)
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Coaching "things" that don´t seem important, but actually make a difference: .1. Get down to eye level when teaching or giving feedback, kids will feel safer learning a new movement. 2. Putting the barbell back to the ground is as important as lifting it overhead. Teach it!
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A myth I still often hear is, that resistance training is not effective in kids until they have significant levels of testosterone. Kids gain strength through neural adaptations, not hypertrophy. Increased motor unit activation leads to greater muscle output, so strength 🆙
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"Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play people find the chance to engage their most profound emotions: love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy." .So, it´s time for a completely random recap of my favorite sports moments in 2022. Friends 🫱🏽🫲🏼 Rivals
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One reason why it’s often easier for kids than older athletes to learn complex movements like the Olympic lifts is, that they don’t overthink the process of learning the technique. You show them and they just do it! #ICoachKids
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⭕️Strength Training for Kids - Online Course⭕️. ➡️For youth coaches and PE teachers, who want to introduce kids to strength training, teach the Olympic lifts and design a fun and enjoyable program! . Sign up ➡️ If you have questions, DM me or comment!
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🏋🏼🏋🏾♀️🏋🏻♂️ . (Yes, we also play games, do obstacle courses, sprint, jump, run, play tag and do bodyweight exercises. Yes, most of them play other sports. Yes, they also laugh and have a good time doing this 😉)
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“But I can control what I do on that track and that’s the thing that doesn’t get the respect and it blows my mind!” . @GoSydGo talking about something that many athletes and especially female athletes can relate to. If you got 10 min, watch her video:
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I love sports (more than the weight room and S&C stuff 😉), I watch a lot of sports and again this year had many special and inspiring sports moments and personalities. So, here is my personal, completely random recap with my favorites for 2021: . 1. "History, my friend."
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When you put it all in and book your ticket to the Tokyo Olympics with the last lift in the last qualifier at only 18 years old. I’m so happy for this girl.
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Strength training is the best way to improve mobility. This one has worked very well for my more advanced athletes as a posterior chain warm up before squats/deadlifts/pulls. Actively control the movement through full range of motion and add load over time.
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I recently added more upper body medball work into this fighter’s program. I find this variation particularly helpful for not only power development, but also improving shoulder stability.
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When designing a strength training program for kids, teaching techniques should be only a small part of a session. The majority of time should be about fundamental movement skills, playing games, making movement experiences and being very active. Variety is 🔑 for making it fun!
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I don’t want to call it a highlight, but this happened today: A 17 year old (!) beat Lu Xiaojun‘s C&J World Record in the -81 kg weight class. 208 kg/458 lbs . 🤯😳🤨
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If you ever look for an ideal lift from a technical perspective, this is it. 🤩.
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Wow, Nina just did that today: 118 kg (260 lbs) C&J at 55 kg (121 lbs) bodyweight and still a junior. 🤯🤯 . btw she was a gymnast for 9 years before she switched to weightlifting at the age of 13.
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Obstacles are great for developing Fundamental Movement Skills - Make it simple, but not simple at the same time! Also, let falling, struggling and failing be a part of it.
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When coaching young athletes and especially when teaching them something new, always keep their attention span in mind and base your programming on how long they can actually focus on a task. #YouthSports #PhysEd #ICoachKids
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I had a class that always came into the gym and started climbing, swinging, playing. before the PE lesson started. I got told by the school, it´s a lack of discipline and too dangerous and I have to make them stop that. ⬆️This is why many young athletes have poor motor skills
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Only wholesome content until Christmas. 🤩. 🎥 : htsgeorgetown (IG)
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And another example: This has nothing to do with learning and practicing a sport, nothing to do with teaching tackling. This is some weird form of adult entertainment, not coaching. #concussion.
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There are some kids from the neighbourhood playing basketball on the street in front of my house right now. It´s 7 pm and the other neighbours just complained & yelled at them that they´re too loud, it´s too late, they should stop making noise and go home. THIS is the problem.
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I couldn´t be happier for this guy to make his Springboks debut today. I don´t think anyone deserves it more than him. He put in so much work and played phenomenal two seasons for the @THESTORMERS. Congratulations, Manie! You´ll do great today! 🇿🇦🏉
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„Fast elbows“ is a common cue for (power)cleans, but some athletes struggle to execute it cause they think, they‘re already fast. So, I focus more on „spinning the bar“. Bars spin for a reason, actively spinning it in the turnover phase often automatically leads to faster elbows.
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On to the next chapter of my coaching journey. I will join @MahdAcademy in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and start a new role as Head of Strength & Conditioning. I´m looking forward to developing athletic development programs for young female and male athletes in multiple sports.
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I´m all in for encouraging kids to play multiple sports. But it´s not necessary to play multiple sports competitively or in a structured environment. Playing soccer or basketball or trying out archery just for fun with some friends and without a coach after school counts, too!.
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There is research on ACL injuries in women. There could be better research, but the topic has been investigated in the last decade. The question should rather be: Are we doing enough to prepare female athletes for the increasing demands of their sport and professionalization?.
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I thought, we´re over it, but I´ve seen it today in a PE lesson in elemantary school. There´s no such thing as "girl push ups"! A teacher telling 8 year old girls, that they should do "girl push ups" while boys do "normal push ups" is the root of many problems in women´s sport.
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„Bear Crawl Reach Through“ or however you wanna call this exercise. Mobility and Stability for shoulder and core all at once and so many options for variation. 🤓
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This video shows why I do NOT use the word "JUMP" at all and why I teach athletes to just "move or set the feet to the side as fast as possible" in the snatch and clean. What differences do you notice between the two lifters?
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Dead stop front squats + slow eccentric phase for those who struggle to push through a sticking point midway or those who want to work on positioning in front squats/cleans or those that just embrace pain cause this variation is not enjoyable 😉
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Behind the Scenes 🎥 Working with pros on a great project! Coming soon! 🏋🏽. (This is not training for those wondering why he does a snatch and then a clean, it’s just for the 🎥 )
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It´s Malcom Marx smirking in the background for me. 😅.
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We just witnessed a 225 kg Snatch World Record and a 267 kg C&J World Record. This beats Taranenko’s long standing all time best. Unbelievable. 🤯. (Waiting for the 267 kg video, they didn’t wanna show a replay in the livestream. It was 🔴🔴⚪️ and then overruled by the jury)
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Just wow: A try-saving tackle from Edwill van der Merwe for the 2022 highlights videos. The awareness and decision-making in this are incredible.
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Last day of 2023 & like every year I share my completely random favorite sports moments of the year. ☺️. 1. Springboks - winning a World Cup means so much more to South Africa
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I find it helpful to watch some of my old actual coaching footage & evaluate what I do differently now & which cues, instructions and feedback I still use, have modified or discarded. This is a good example for overcoaching: I talk too much, interfere too early and interrupt her
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What she´s been through and still stood there saluting (she´s Air Force) to the flag. Some governments don´t deserve their people.
Hidilyn Diaz was maliciously tagged in Duterte ouster plot after she voiced the extreme lack of support for athletes in the Philippines. THIS IS A POWERFUL AND SYMBOLIC WIN— and a huge F U to a gov’t that lets its people down AND that looks down on women.
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When performing a PUSH press, the focus should be on an aggressive leg drive and not the pressing portion. It´s not a half squat with a press.
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Once more: The best strategy to reduce the risk of injury in female athletes long-term is to give them access to strength training and a variety of different physical activities as early as possible. Girls can and should train the same way boys do during childhood.
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That feeling when a big project is finally done and you´re happy with it 😃 It took a bit longer than expected, but. Tomorrow evening, I´ll finally launch my first "strength training for kids" online course for youth coaches and PE teachers! #StayTuned
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I offered some soccer and basketball clubs to coach camps and teach lifting techniques to young athletes for free (!) over the summer because I got some time left. They said they don´t need strength training. 🙄.
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S&C for female athletes is discussed and programmed way too much from an "injury prevention" prespective and performance aspects are often neglected. Most female athletes don´t reach their potential because coaches are too cautious and don´t load them enough.
One of my favorite interview questions: What is one thing you believe to be true that 99% of your field disagrees with?.
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The Rugby Africa Cup, a Rugby World Cup qualifier for African nations is played in France (!). This is not how you grow the game in Africa, @RugbyAfrique. Very disappointing!
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I’ve said it a couple of times already: This generation of young female weightlifters is so exciting to watch. Controlled first pull with shoulder being over the bar, the magic happens in the second pull and for her in the turnover 🧨 fast af. Giulia Imperio (-49 kg) 🇮🇹
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First @THESTORMERS cap for 20-year-old Sacha Mngomezulu - Remember that name, this kid is a baller! . So proud!😊
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Really good sports coaches can cover S&C and do a better job than many S&C coaches.
Post your S&C take that will get you cancelled.
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"Strength training with kids is safe and beneficial when it´s age-appropriate.". I feel like there are many different views about what´s "age-appropriate"? What are your criteria for an age-appropriate youth strength training program?
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A pause in the hang clean position and not rushing through it helps to focus on the shoulder being over the bar. The shoulder already being behind the bar can lead to timing issues in the triple extension. Positions are 🔑 when working on technique.
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"We found that 85% of the 20 most highly cited meta-analyses in strength and conditioning research contained statistical errors." 🤯. @DanielKadlec .
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I thought long about whether I should say something about this. But since her training is increasingly used to promote strength training with kids, I feel the need to say: Videos like this are exactly what parents are justifiably afraid of and why there are still many prejudices.
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Weightlifting for kids is about developing proper technique and we add load at a later stage. I usually have a 75/25 rule: 25% of a session is learning new techniques and working on strength training competencies. 75% is playing games, fundamental movement skills etc. 🏋🏽♀️
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Last week with the @THESTORMERS before a new chapter starts for me. It’s been a pleasure to work with great players in the gym & on the field. My passing is still crap, but my kicking is semi decent now. Thanks to this dude, who‘s one of the smartest rugby brains I‘ve ever met!
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The last few days I´ve seen many tweets about weightlifting not being part of the Olympics anymore, Many of them lack knowledge about the situation & the reasons for the IOC kicking weightlifting out of the program. So, I try to provide a 🧵with resources about the main issues:.
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Athletes that "know a little something" about their body, injuries, training. 🤩.
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I’ve gotten a few invitations to speak on podcasts lately and most of them want to talk about my experiences as a female S&C and how the industry can do better. Simple: Invite women to talk about sprints, lifting, jumps, return to play or whatever training related topic. Thanks!.
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Another World Record, 187 kg Snatch for Lesman Paredes Montano 🇨🇴 . It’s the very unique set-up and the jump afterwards for me! 😎. #weightlifting
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I taught my first “strength training for young athletes” seminar in Porto/Portugal 🇵🇹 today. If someone would have told me a year ago, I would travel to another country and share my work, I wouldn’t have believed it. So much more to come…
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S&C comes with tons of volunteer coaching and working for free. But maybe young strength coaches should ask themselves if it´s worth it to do another season of filling up water bottles for pro athletes and instead spend some more time of the volunteer phase with coaching kids.
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Gosh, I just love this generation of young female weightlifters. 💥
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Some personal news: .I will stay in Saudi Arabia and have started a new position as Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Saudi Olympic Training Center. I´m very excited to start working with taekwondo, karate, judo and jiu-jitsu athletes. #teamsaudi 🇸🇦.
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Drop snatches are great for #weightlifting folks who struggle with getting under the bar fast, want to work on positioning their feet correctly or improve overhead stability. Extend elbows, move feet to the side as fast as possible and "work against the barbell"!
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Medal ceremonies shouldn´t be any other way ever again.
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Mood after reading all these tweets and watching videos about lifting techniques, spinal flexion causing lower back pain and eccentric isometric 90 degree squats… . @AdamMeakins
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OMG. How did he do that? I wish we had some numbers for the first and second pull. This is insane!.
New World Record! Rizik Juniansyah (73kg 🇮🇩) clean and jerks 194kg / 427lbs for a new Junior world record! He now has all three Junior world records in the 73kg category.
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I‘m a bit tired of the „Kids are so „soft“ nowadays. Kids don’t take risks. Kids can’t even do a forward roll anymore. Kids only play video games.“ people. Maybe we should stop blaming kids. So, I´ve done a few posts for Instagram I wanna share here, too: 🧵(1/5)
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Clean: A „drill“ I use mainly for athletes with limited ankle/hip mobility or who „crash“ into the deep squat position in the turnover phase, is a power clean, stop in the catching position and then move slowly+controlled into the squat or as low as they can. #weightlifting
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I taught a strength training workshop today. Besides S&C coaches, 6 sports coaches (T&F, boxing, basketball, table tennis, cycling) signed up. We analyzed the demands of their sports and discussed case studies for their setting. This was so valuable, we need more of this.
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In my own “training” I try out new exercises, variations or rep schemes I program for my athletes to not get disconnected to load. I think, it’s crucial to not lose the feeling for intensities, especially programming iso, eccentrics or using bands etc.
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So excited. I just accepted an offer to do a Prof Doc in Elite Performance at @DcuPerformance - I’m looking forward to learning more and doing some applied research in the next 4 years. And I’ll continue to coach full time. 😊
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When an athlete has a timing issue in the snatch/clean pull, the legs stop driving while the bar is still moving upward as we can see here, one option for correcting is: Keep arms straight during the pull and try to stay as long as possible on the toes. „Be as tall as possible!“
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Reality of coaching kids. Sometimes things don’t turn out how you‘ve actually planned them. The kids got excited and started before I finished the instructions. I didn’t want to stop them and it got a bit chaotic. But that’s part of it. It was still fun tho.
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A lil recap and on a sidenote: Teams are successful when there´s a good balance between hard work & having fun. There are many youth coaches nowadays who take many things far too seriously and convey a false image of professional sport. Discipline and fun can go hand in hand. 😉
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I’ve experimented a bit with weighted split squat jumps and Bulgarian split squat jumps in the last few months. The latter is particularly useful when you want more focus on the lead leg without adding external load.
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I coached a 14-year-old who had to take care of her 2 siblings after school while her mom was working 3 jobs to feed the family. I coached a 16-year-old who took care of his granny with dementia in shifts with his siblings. Both missed practices for acceptable reasons. (1/2).
Only acceptable reasons to miss practice after age 14. -Hurt.-Death in the family.-Mandatory School assignment (not homework) .-Extremely RARE Family event (Not a birthday or vacation) . Being on a team is a commitment, it’s time we treated it like that again.
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„You need to be more confident!“ is one of the most common feedbacks of sports coaches…But when has telling a player that he needs to be more confident ever made him actually more confident? 🤷🏼♀️.
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Back to the roots. I still love to teach the Olympic lifts even though they’re so unpopular on S&C twitter nowadays. 😂I’ve recently started to introduce them in the @saudijudo S&C program: Positions first, then making it more dynamic later! 🥋🏋🏾♂️
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He deleted his tweet, but the internet doesn´t forget.
Show me you´re not a role model for youth athletes without showing me you´re not a role model for youth athletes. .
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⚽️ Kids - "Movement Stuff". ➡️ Animal walks.➡️ Some hopping and/or bounding (uni/bilateral).➡️ "Wrestling" with/without arms
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Training summary: Isometrics, uni and bilateral exercises, heavyish lifting, a few jumps and doing the sport, that’s it. ☺️
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One year ago, I published my first online course "Strength Training for Kids". I have updated the course for its anniversary 🥳 and added new content about fundamental movement skills, communicating with young athletes & growth and development. Check out:
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Kids become "lazy" when you take away their autonomy & the ownership of their own sports participation & performance. When they don´t do it for themselves, but rather to please someone else like their coaches or parents. Kids aren´t soft, just tired of transactional leadership.
Kids aren't soft. Every year HS coaches get thousands of kids to voluntarily run 60-80 miles per week in the heat of the summer. When kids care, when the work has meaning & purpose, they will go to the well. Pointless hard work on things that don't matter decreases motivation.
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If a physio refuses to work collaboratively with a S&C coach, then it’s time to look for a new physio. This applies to almost all injuries of athletes.
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It’s a wrap. I couldn’t ask for a better bunch of big brothers. @THESTORMERS will forever be an important part of my coaching journey and I’m beyond grateful for the experiences I’ve made. To all the players: I’ll miss y’all, keep on working hard and go win that thing! #PartofUs
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A 16-year-old boy just lifted 206 kg (C&J) in the -81 kg category at the European Weightlifting Championships. We´re back to ridiculous numbers. I´m not gonna name the nationality or the coach. 😉. #iykyk
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Just a thought: We all know that even elite athletes have no clue about S&C and constantly fall for gurus and fancy bs programs. Must we do a better job in educating them and explaining the why and how behind programming for performance on youth/high school/college level?.
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I sold a weightlifting program for a while, which got lots of negative feedback for being "too boring", "not enough different exercises", "every week the same", "too basic". Unfortunately, many athletes expect the "silly stuff" with dozens of complexes and accessory lifts.
As a weightlifting coach I see so much over programming for people. 10 sets of this or that when 4 would probably suffice. 3 hour training sessions when someone actually should be there 1 hour. Silly stuff.
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If you work as hard as possible and still always wonder if you’re lazy, you’re on your way to burnout. This also does not build self-efficacy in athletes because they constantly think they haven’t done enough even when they have.
Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning! . -vs.-. Winners work as hard as possible and still wonder if they are being lazy!. Hard work > Lazy 💯. 🎥 @LewisCaralla .
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Almost forgot my World Championships 2021 highlight today: 192 kg C&J from Rahmat Abdullah 🇮🇩 . Watch the slow first pull, magic in the second pull and then basically no pause before the jerk. #weightlifting
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The biggest issue about this is, he did not get punished because he is a good rugby player. "Judge Clark said a conviction would have ended the Fijian-born player's Irish contract - and that would have been out of all proportion to the gravity of the offending.".
Sevu Reece is only playing for the All Blacks instead of in Ireland because he once chased a woman down the street, caught up with her, then smashed her face against the concrete, but the controversy today is that he’s playing against the country he was born in.
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