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Welcome to the Excelsior blog. It is a mix of current research and thoughts on Athlete and Coach Development, Strength and Conditioning and personal reflections.
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James Marshall
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PTA: Pain Torture Agony
Lessons on weight loss from Wrestlers
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Cited in John Jesse’s wrestling encyclopaedia, Donald Cooper is quoted from Medical Aspects of Weight Control -
Function over form
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Periodisation Strategies
Periodisation is often talked about, but is soon forgotten once a season starts. It appears that some Coaches view periodisation as simply an offseason and a season. S&C Coaches may see it as 3 weeks of loading, followed by an unloading week- in my experience this leads to players getting broken.
I have seen some professional clubs just do more and more work for 3 weeks, then take a whole week off- that is not periodisation in my opinion.
Here is an article I wrote a few years ago:
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Body weight workout
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Training Course Review- Steve Morris
Steve Morris is an experienced Martial Artist who has been training for 50 odd years. I have wanted to train with him since I read about his views on mimicking and enhancing natural movement patterns.
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Toughness training for life- review
“Stress management is more than removing stressors from your life”
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