Warm-up Archives - Power Rack Strength https://www.powerrackstrength.com/category/strength-training/warm-up/ Cutting Edge Strength Training & Athletic Resilience Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 DON’T Do This for Strength! (Static Stretching) https://www.powerrackstrength.com/dont-do-this-for-strength-static-stretching/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:00:09 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=39756 Static stretching, where you lengthen and hold a muscle in a stretched position, can weaken the muscle. It’s counterintuitive to lengthen and weaken a muscle before subjecting it to heavy loads.

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]]> IMPROVE SPEED, POWER, AND NEURAL DRIVE WITH THIS EXERCISE https://www.powerrackstrength.com/improve-speed-power-and-neural-drive-with-this-exercise/ Sat, 11 May 2019 02:48:33 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=33723 In May of 2013, I met Dr. Stuart McGill, who in short, saved my athletic career. I had a badly damaged back and was on the way out of elite powerlifting. He helped me start from ground zero, rebuild back to 100 percent, and in the process he taught me what being a true athlete is. McGill not only helped me regain my lower back athleticism and become pain free, he also taught me how to get more bang for my buck with newer and better versions of exercise that I’d been doing for decades.

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]]> Therapy – taking care of your priceless and limited resource https://www.powerrackstrength.com/therapy-taking-care-of-your-priceless-and-limited-resource/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:50:32 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=32423 Strength sports are a very unforgiving mountain we climb. We punish ourselves for little to no reward and put our body through hell. We do it because we love it, not because we always enjoy the process. You'll likely hate it. Sometimes often, but it's worth it.

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]]> Back Pain isn’t The End Game https://www.powerrackstrength.com/back-pain-recovery/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:44:27 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=29680 By Ken Whetham/Friends of PRS It was during my preparation for the 2014 WPC World Championships in West Palm Beach Florida when I realized that the back pain I was experiencing during training...

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]]> 53 Things I learned at the SECOND 10/20/life Seminar With Brian Carroll & Jonathan Byrd https://www.powerrackstrength.com/53-things-i-learned-at-the-second-1020life-seminar-with-brian-carroll-jonathan-byrd/ Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:52:40 +0000 https://www.powerrackstrength.com/?p=19937 By: Admin/Friends of PRS-Driven Fitness Center Brian Carroll and Jonathan Byrd recently put on a second seminar at Driven Fitness Center in Salina, KS. “I’m going to be honest, I kinda thought all I...

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