This year, Team Juggernaut will send 5 women: Marisa Inda (52kg Open), Meg Scanlon (57kg Open), Kristen Dunsmore (72kg Open), Maddy Forberg (57kg Junior) and Jo Ann Aita (57kg Masters 1), to IPF Classic Worlds in Sweden. Even for the most elite lifters, training has ups and downs, our team shares theirs.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND PERIODIZATION. We talk about periodization, and various aspects of periodization, as if they’re mutually exclusive. Most …
The term “fueling” is a popular buzz word within the sports dietetics and athletic performance setting. Ensuring athletes are properly fueled for competition and training …
Over the course of a training plan, as an athlete gets stronger/faster/more explosive (generally more capable of higher outputs), recovery becomes of paramount importance. Over …
In order for training to be effective, an overload must be presented. Training must be chronically harder, longer, and more demanding in some way as …
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed what the concept of consolidation of stressors is and how it is applied to programming in the …
By Chad Wesley Smith Over the course of a training plan, as an athlete gets stronger/faster/more explosive (generally more capable of higher outputs), recovery becomes of …
It is important to understand what elite athletes, like those on TeamJTS, currently do in their training, isn't what they've always done. As you evolve …
Understanding the principles upon which effective Powerlifting Programming is built is critical to being able to create effective strategies to help athletes improve their strength.