IPF close to Olympics

On Monday 12. November, the IPF Secretary General Emanuel Scheiber and representatives from the IOC had a meeting in Lausanne (SUI) regarding the IPF application for IOC recognition.

The IOC representatives were very impressed about the very complete and well done application. They pointed out the improvement since the last application 2006 and the great work in Anti Doping and Media (live streaming, magazine) matters. Another very positive effect is the cooperation with the Special Olympics and the IBSA.

During the meeting the Mr. Wassmer from the IOC described Mr. Scheiber the procedure until the final announcement of the recognition. Mr. Mollard and Mrs. McConnell did ask some details regarding media work, development efforts in the regions, preparations regarding the World Games 2013,...

The conclusion of the meeting was that the IPF has to finalize some additional paperwork but the IPF is on the right way and all participants of the meeting agreed that the IPF is ready for this big step - the IOC 

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Squatting

When we look at the squat we are going to be discussing the difference between narrow and sumo squats, and high bar vs low bar. I will use two pictures to describe what happens when you do not pass 90 degrees  It is very important to past 90 degrees

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When going past 90 you are going to be putting full stress on the Quads, in which will build your quads up better then half squats. This will also help you to make depth for a power lifting meet. This is where most people bomb out in meets, because most people do not have a way to train to depth. I use those "boxes" to check depth,  so when it comes to meet day I will know when I pass by the feeling I get in the hips and knees.  You will find it might be harder to make depth on sumo then narrow.
When narrow squatting, you will have a lot of stress on the quads over sumo squatting. When narrow squatting you have to remember you have to go further down in your stance. For Sumo squatting you will need to be flexible at the hips and groin area, so you will need to strech a lot more. when sumo squatting there will be less presser on your knees compared to narrow. When talking about sumo, you will see a lot of people use low bar.
With low bar I found it helps to get the depth when loaded with enough weight on the bar. You will have to be carful when using low bar becuase there is a higher chance of the bar slipping off your back. With High bar squatting you need to find the sweet spot on your delt area. If the bar is to high on the neck, then watch out the next morning because you will have a very stiff neck.This is due part, because most people look up in there squat. When the bar is to high it sits on the traps, which is bad when looking up towards the sky.

View on steriods

Release Date: October 30th 2012
By: Rob Mori
Over the years people have given a bad view on Testosterone  Everyone has a different Opinion on this Subject so I will go and explain in the Article the following;my view and why I do not have a problem with it. I will also describe how it came to service for athletes.
Steroids became in the light during the late 1950's, when the Russian Coach was drunk and exposed there secret on why they were Dominating the Olympics. Since then HGH(Steroids) has been in sports, at one time it was used to make the playing field even, know its used to get ahead of everyone else. When you think about Steroids, you think you will get easy results and you do not have to work so hard; it is far from the truth.
You have to look at it like a protein, it helps with recovery and muscle building. When taking steroids  you will have to work harder and longer to get the same feeling; because it speeds up the rate of recovery and building.  I would say they have it harder in the gym, Some athletes make a living off using steroids.
If we take a look at Body builders, they have to use it to compete with everyone else. Anyone out side of sports is using it for a personal use to compensate for something.. If we were to think of sports using steroids  baseball comes to mine. Why would these guys take steroids  when they are already there and making money? This is a good question, some athletes start to use it near the end of there career to keep going a little bit longer. Are these athletes  bad examples for our kids?
To me personally, you should not judge the people who use steroids. If your a teen and/or young adults you should not use it for any reason. Why the hell are you using steroids when you are 15, you still have a long way to go till your done maturing and growing. If you are not making a living from using the steroids why take it. When people ask me about steroids I usually recommend wait till you accomplish records and titles before using the substance. This is because you have a solid base to start from.  If you are to use it when you are not done maturing you will end up lose all the gains you worked for. I will always be the most open about it, because I know when I compete in power lifting and hopefully body building; that there is always people using.

Training through Injury

Training through Injury
Released: October 28th 2012
While Training through injury most people end up becoming lazy when they are not able to fully lift. Like most lifting athletes I had my share of injury  and I have to say till I learned how to train around it I ended up being lazy.  Before you start training through injury, you have to know what the problem is; and you have to know how to go about it.
After you go get checked out, then you can start the recovery and training around the injury. Your whole body should not suffer because one area is injured. Earlier this year(2012) I put 4 knots into each of my triceps from over working my body.. How I came back from the injury, was restarting over the whole program.
  In September I tore my Meniscus in the left knee and was not able to walk let alone squat or dead lift. That didn't stop me from working out and trying to get back to squats and dead lifting.  I was driven to get back on top for squatting. During the Injury and rehab I was not able to use my legs during bench. Do you think that stopped me? NO!!
Everyone from the trainers to random people kept telling my to take it easy. How can I take it easy when I have to train hard to get a head of the competition I said to the trainers. After two weeks back under the bar I pulled 405 and squatted 275 no problem with no gear. If you are really dedicated you will find a way to train.

Short advice for new lifters

Every Time I enter a forum you always see threads about beginners talking about your work out.  When experience lifters look at these threads or questions, we like to help but after awhile it gets annoying. When asking/choosing a program make sure it is right for you.
When choosing a program as an athlete a simply 5x5 will help you maintain your strength during season. When you make up your own work out and throw 12 exercise in on one day, that is over training. You should start a already build beginner work out that was proven to work; like bill starrs 5x5.

Why We Are Different

WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT 

By: Robert Mori

Release Date: September 19th 2012 

You can an ask anyone why they lift; there can be many reasons why. Many just lift to look better, to feel better, and to out shine someone. The guys and girls you see in there every day working there butts off to improve, and to step ahead of everyone are the ones who are making sacrifices in their daily lives; there things  that you do not see like the hours they spend.

               You don’t see the thousands of hours that Elite lifters end up putting in, the money they spend on food, supplements, and gym memberships. For lifting sports as power lifting, strong man, and body building; there will always be weight that have to be moved, titles to win, and records to break. Many people think certain people must be juicing to be that strong, or that big. What they don’t see is the injuries that we overcome, and the overtraining. To be successful in any sport, you are going to be turning down late night invites, party request, and sometimes date invites; so you will not ruin your work out the next day.  No one will ever see the prepping and cooking their meals that we do.

               Each Athlete has to define his own diet to fit the life style they are living. Each meal is going to be different from the last. Bodybuilders will be looking for more protein in each meal then a football player; a power lifter will be looking for more carbs and fats during a bulk then a lacrosse player. On a normal day for a power lifter, it is not weird to see one eat two meals in a sitting during a bulk phase. Many don’t realize how hard it is to just maintain weight let alone bulk. When we head to the gym we are very concentrated.

                When power athletes go to the gym, they have one goal in mind; it is to destroy the weights. It is hard to concentrate when you have a personal trainer always around you telling you you’re doing it wrong. Anyone will know what I am talking about, what they are taught in school is not the same as another school will teach it. I have a problem where; if you cannot out lift me I won’t listen, or never done my sport.  We have a passion for the sport we chose, and we don’t have time for personal trainers to say that our form is different than what they are taught.

               They have to realize that maybe there teaching is WRONG. Most personal trainers working in Commercial gyms are actually sales reps. People go in for a weekend course and get “approved” as trainers; for example GOOD LIFE. Don’t get me wrong I have met some very well qualified trainers that know what they are talking about. I have also met some who are talking out there ass, with their sales pitch they worked on. They have to stop feeding there bullshit to everyone, especially when we are working out. As a power athletes we sometimes get stared down at the gym for “being different”.

                 When power athletes head into a gym, many people will stare. They do not realize why some only do single max reps; why we over load the pull down bar and have a kind of swing when pulling down. We recognize to get stronger you have to push yourself past the comfort barrier that people have built up. You need to feel the rush of lifting for a PR. To truly understand our enjoyment; you need to feel the struggle of failing a lift to be grateful for the successful ones. Everything comes down to one thing on meet and show day; and that is preparations we must make ahead of time.

No one really knows how hard it is to prep yourself to be able to lift 500lbs; anything can throw you off for your meet or show the following week. We try to keep our selves healthy all year around, being sick with the flu can disrupted your training the following week.  Prepping is probably the most important because; we need to know what our max is for each event and lift. We have to know how we are going to warm up during the meet, and how long it takes to get through the flight(s) till your turn. Anything during the meet can throw our prepping off, from going for a successful lift to bombing out of the meet.  No one will understand the Love we have for our sport, because of all these reasons.

We love our sport(s) because; we get to be stronger then the day before.  We just not only compete against our own personal records, but we get to compete with other peoples records. Which other sport, would you find that it is a single man or woman competing against themselves and others. We don’t lift to show off, or to get attention; I say none of the above. We do it because we love the rush of the weight trying crushing us and defeating us. We do it because we have the power to push ourselves when others give up. We spend the money to feed ourselves properly when others go buy drunk food, and the strict diets, and meal plans we put ourselves on; this is why we do it!!!

Training During Season

Training While in Season
By: Robert Mori
Release Date: September 26th 2012

Most people will tell you, you can't train max effort during season. If you are you must be on something more than just protein. You will aslo read that you need to break up the year into periods for different sports. What happens If by training strength you will become a better athele during season; and were to tell you that they were wrong.

Every trainer, every coach, every athele has told me that my body would give up mid season from constint max effort work. I have used a basic 5x5 scheme but nothing hits like working up to a 1RM I have proved them wrong with a basic system called conjugate method. I was able to train above 100% every week. This is possiable because I rotate all my max effort lifts, and no work out is the same.
For example

week1: ME Bench/ME Box Squat/Dead Lifts
week2: ME Floor Press/ME Pin Squats/Rack pull
Week3: ME Board Press/Reverse Band Squat/Deficit Pull
week4: Reverse Band Bench/ME Squat below Parallel/Reverse Band dead Lift

By rotating the Max effort lifts I was able to make Pr's each week. I also had 1 day for ME squat with a DE Dead Lift, and vise versa. While also in one week I aslo have a Dynimac effort day for Bench. While I have the main lift I also have assistance work.In my assistance work I cover every body part with on excersie.

Before planning your work out routine, you need to be aware of your games. I found doing max effort bench is best done the next day after the Game. When planning your Squat and dead lift work out, make sure you have at least 3-4 day from Game day to do squats.On a bench day you want to work your biceps, triceps, shoulders, and upper back. For Squat and Dead Lift i do a quad, hamstring and lower back work out on top of the squat and dead lift. While following the routine I did from 5-20 reps; why? Comadating resitance on the weights I would use.You will have to remember not all sports training is the same; but you can always use the same system.

When I was asked to train a Vollyball player, I told him what I tell everyone build strenght and everything will come into place. For Vollyball for example he wouldn't have to do alot box squats, because box squats do not conver over to jumping power. But what does cross over is box jumps. For American football athletes almost everything crosses over to help, so you do not have a limit on training assistance work.

With assistance work you want to work on a weak point in ether your lifting or game: For example a Vollyball player. If (s)he wanted to work on there serve, they could grap a 5lb plate and work on the serve motion. By doing this you will work your serve power. For Wrestling you want to work on hip power; you will do excersize like power cleans, and ball throws. All you need is the perfect system and then you can max massive gains.