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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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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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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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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