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Lessons from Romania
Matt Foreman
December 31 2008 | Nutrition
Nicu Vlad is one of the greatest weightlifters of all time. The Romanian legend won the Olympic gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles games when he was only twenty-one years old, and that was only the beginning of his amazing career. Vlad went on to win the silver medal at the 1988 Olympics, the bronze at the 1996 Olympics (when he was thirty-three), and three world championships in 1984, 1986, and 1990. However, the accomplishment that Vlad is probably most famous for is his all-time world record
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The Prodigal Chain
Greg Everett
November 30 2008 | Training
This is a historic issue for the Performance Menu—as far as I can recall, this is its first biblical allusion. This of course has nothing to do with the content of the article itself and knowing this will in no way contribute to the reader’s understanding. But it both entertains me and gives me an easy introduction.The point is simply that as of late, the posterior chain gets so much attention and credit, and the loyal, reliable anterior chain seems to be regarded with disdain, or at
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Attitude Adjustment
Greg Everett
October 30 2008 | Editorial
I do my best to fly under the radar (phrase and advice supplied by Eva T years ago)—to do my thing, do it as well as I can, and let the rest slide off my back. Unfortunately I appear to be a drama magnet and have found it impossible to escape. The particulars of my own struggle are not important for this article—the point is that even doing my best to avoid it, it surrounds me. It pervades the fitness and strength & conditioning industry, the flame oxidized by the cheapness of wo
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Why Dots
Josh Everett
September 30 2008 | Training
My first experience with the dot drill came about in my high school football off-season strength & conditioning program. I remember one day as we went out to the track for conditioning seeing a whole gang of white dots spray-painted on the asphalt leading to the track. The football coach showed us a routine and I was hooked. Of course anything that is turned into a competition or race highly motivates me. In this article I’m going to briefly discuss how and why I use the dot drill as p
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The Olympics, Righteousness, and the Rules of Sport
Jon Gilson
August 31 2008 | Training
There are very few things that get me as wound up as lying. In all its forms, from tax fraud to Congressional testimony, dishonesty drives me nuts. When combined with the purity of athletics, dishonesty makes me absolutely homicidal.The ethics of sport are simple. They require an unwavering adherence to the rules, combined with an abiding sense of fairness, regardless of the scope or import of the event in question. This simple coda seems to have escaped the International Olympic Committee, the
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Interview with Greg Everett: Life & Death Training and More
Jerry Hill
July 31 2008 | Training
Jerry Hill: Hey, this is Jerry Hill owner of CrossFit Challenge in Oldtown Alexandria Virginia. I am here with Greg Everett, the owner of Catalyst Athletics and publisher of the "Performance Menu Journal". Greg, thanks for being on 'The Call'. Do you want to give us a little bit more about you, a little bio?Greg Everett: You pretty much covered it there. I guess I can add that I formerly owned one of the very first CrossFit affiliates way back when there were about five of
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A New Way to M.E. Black Box
Michael Rutherford
May 29 2008 | Training
IntroductionIt was 2004 when I first started integrating M.E. lifts with the CrossFit high intensity randomized protocol. I have since tried some new methods, which have proven successful. They tell me at the Performance Menu that the M.E. articles are the most popular back issues on the shelf. I still receive e-mail each week with questions on the implementation on the template. The mother ship CrossFit.com with a push from Starting Strength guru Mark Rippetoe now includes a heavy dose of M.E.
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Tumbling Warm-up
Stephane Rochet
April 30 2008 | Training
During the past six months, the University of San Diego Varsity Weight Room has experienced a modest remodeling. Equipment and power racks were moved in order to clear out a space on one side of the room. This space was then filled with 12’x 42’ of carpet bonded foam tumbling mats. A new warm-up was then introduced to USD student-athletes.With real estate at such a premium in weight rooms, why did we go to the trouble of moving so much equipment only to fill it with a tumbling mat? B
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Breathing
Greg Everett
April 1 2008 | Training
Breath control is critical for increasing and maintaining the structural integrity of the spine while under heavy loads. The supporting musculature is alone inadequate—in order to adequately stabilize the spine, the abdominal and thoracic cavities must be pressurized. The torso has only a single supporting structure—the spine—on one side, and this structure articulates in all directions, requiring additional support to maintain rigidity. The remaining circumference is comprised
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CrossFit Criteria
Greg Everett
February 29 2008 | Training
This whole CrossFit thing is getting big. Thanks to the interminable wisdom and foresight of one Robb Wolf—a kind and generous man as long as you don’t ask him if he’s a runner—I was personally introduced to CrossFit in its public infancy. At this time, the finer details of the theory were still developing rapidly around the very solid yet rudimentary foundation. Gone are the simple days when the affiliates list on the website was only an inch long and prospective clients
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