“My squat sucks! I can’t go as deep as I would like to because my hips hurt and my ankles are locked”; “I have a loose lumbar zone so I cannot squat deeper!”; “I don’t do Over Head Squats because my shoulders don’t lock out”. The problem with these people is that they all can’t […]
“How much can you lift?” “How much can you bench?”; “Who’s the strongest in the gym?”; “This guy is really big, he has to be strong for sure!”…. These are just a few of the most quoted sentences that any gym goer hears a thousand times. If you have some knowledge in strength and conditioning, […]
Progress in training can have many different meanings. For the lovers of iron, the best symptom of progression corresponds to a new personal record in squat or bench. But the weight you can load on the barbell is not the only progress that can occur in your journey as an athlete. Even though the final result is […]
THE HUMAN BODY DOES NOT LIKE FATIGUE. The body in general wants food, sleep, and recovery. However, as human culture has evolved over time, movement and activity has grown in popularity, and looking good has become a cultural norm. Similarly, so has the need to move our bodies to play a sport or go to the gym. […]
There are all kinds of wearable technologies on the market today; tracking steps, calories, speed, heart rate, velocity, power, etc. We live in a era where technology is king and we are all connected, and at times over connected. But how can you benefit from a strength wearable? Goal Setting: as a former athlete, we […]
Beast Technologies partnered with the University of Leipzig on a study regarding “Force, Power, and Physiological Load During Kettlebell Swings”. The team at the University used Beast Sensors to record Power and Force during the exercise. Beast is proud to have a product and technology that allows us to partner with higher education to aid […]
When I competed in kickboxing I used to train every day, sometimes twice a day, although I had to study and, later, I had a full time job. Being a student-working athlete requires the most commitment and it is the most stressful to the mind and to the body, even if my coaches designed for me […]
One of the biggest struggle concerning lifting, that every athlete experienced, is understanding the right weight to lift. How can we know which is the correct weight and also how much a wrong weight affects results? Simplifying the reality (that involves several different ways of training according to the different training methods that we can […]
If we want to understand VBT and its application to sports we must first introduce the concept of what VBT or Velocity Based Training is and how to apply it to your training cycles. Most literally, VBT is training where you are focused on the speed of the lift rather than the percentage of 1RM or […]
Recently I came across some articles about why Athletes should be tracked anywhere on the field. I think anyone practicing Strength Training to reach a specific goal should be tracking their efforts, so I decided to play this “game” and listed my 10 most important reasons everybody should use a tracking device when lifting. Any comment […]