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YOU be the Judge Part 7: Power Clean, by Dr. Lon Kilgore

March 31, 2015 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: Dr. Lon Kilgore has already exposed the NSCA’s self-contradictory instructions on the deadlift and the squat. Today he turns his sights to the NSCA’s self-contradictory power clean instruction. Interrogative: What should professional fitness trainers teach their trainees about the start position of the Power Clean? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, and the NSCA official Website, all offer different instruction to trainers on start position when having their clients […]

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YOU be the Judge Part 6: Deadlift foot and ankle placement, by Dr. Lon Kilgore

March 30, 2015 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: Dr. Lon Kilgore began his YOU be the Judge series with five articles examining the NSCA’s self-contradictory squat instruction. Today he turns his focus to the NSCA’s self-contradictory deadlift instructions. Interrogative: What should professional fitness trainers teach their trainees about bar position relative to foot and ankle placement in the start position of the deadlift? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, and the NSCA official Website, all offer different […]

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NSCA Leaders Don’t Support the NSCA Education Recognition Program

March 26, 2015 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: John T. Weatherly has helped with conditioning programs and research at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Weatherly began his NSCA muckraking with a two-part series on unreliable NSCA vibration research. Now Weatherly’s taking a look at the NSCA’s education program.  The NSCA states on their website: As the worldwide authority on strength and conditioning, we support and disseminate research-based knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic performance and fitness. Note the word support in the above. […]

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CrossFit’s Case Against the NSCA: The Facts

March 24, 2015 by Russell Berger

In 2013, the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s journal published a study on a 10-week challenge at a CrossFit affiliate. The study claimed 11 participants did not complete the challenge and return for follow-up testing.  According to the study, two participants cited time constraints and nine participants, 16 percent of the total, cited “overuse or injury” as their reason for failing to complete the study.  The authors also called into question “the risk-benefit ratio for such extreme training programs,” even cautioning that the measured improvements from CrossFit training […]

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Buzzing with Good (or Bad) Intentions? by Dr. Lon Kilgore

March 18, 2015 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present another guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. Today’s Kilgore article looks at the risks of vibration plate training. It continues the theme developed by John Weatherly. Weatherly’s vibration plate articles (Part 1, Part 2) exposed the unreliable research the National Strength and Conditioning Association published on its sponsor Power Plate.  What do we really want to do with vibration devices? They’ve been in and out of fashion since Kellogg’s painful vibrating chair in […]

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ACSM President-Elect: Gatorade Does “Affect Objectivity”

March 17, 2015 by Russ Greene

Witness the difference between 2000 Larry Armstrong and 2015 Larry Armstrong. 2000 Larry Armstrong presented himself in the Wall Street Journal as an allegedly Gatorade-independent researcher. 2015 Larry Armstrong is now the incoming president of the American College of Sports Medicine, a long-time Gatorade beneficiary and advocate. Larry Armstrong in the Wall Street Journal in 2000: To Larry Armstrong, professor of environment and exercise physiology at the University of Connecticut and one of the few sports scientists not on the payroll of Gatorade, […]

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Greg Glassman on The OC Throwdown

March 6, 2015 by Russell Berger

The OC Throwdown is a fitness competition organized by a company called THE OFFICIAL OCT LLC., owned by a Mr. Darren McGuire. Sadly the OCT is probably best known as the place where in 2014, Kevin Ogar was paralyzed. While the press has frequently mischaracterized the OCT as a “CrossFit” competition, CrossFit Inc. has no affiliation with the OCT, or Darren McGuire. Like other imitators of the CrossFit Games, the OCT is mistaken as somehow representative of the CrossFit brand. This couldn’t […]

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On the Take with Power Plate Part 2

March 2, 2015 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note:  John T. Weatherly has helped with conditioning programs and research at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. John is also a frequent commenter and contributor on the Russells’ Blog. Today’s article is the second in John’s series on vibration plates. These plates vibrate like a truck on a highway, allegedly making you fitter. Weatherly exposes the unreliable studies that the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and others have published on vibration platforms, and the corporate relationships that helped cover up the bad science. […]

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