Self-Organizing Technique

November 20, 2018 Advanced Concepts, Application Articles, Coaching, Coaching Process Jim Elli

By Mike Tuchscherer 19 November 2018

We all want athletes to have the proverbial “perfect technique”. Some astute coaches even say “THEIR perfect technique” – to emphasize that “perfect” is relative to the individual athlete. But how do we get there?

Why Skipping The Wave-Load Might Be Useful

July 11, 2018 Advanced Concepts, Application Articles, Coaching, Coaching Process, Emerging Strategies Jim Elli

So I’ve been talking about Emerging Strategies for a while now. If you’re not sure what that is, you’ll want some background before proceeding. I suggest this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGP120e4B0

Naturally, a question to arise from a concept such as ES is something like, “Which is better, ES or a more traditional approach?” Of course if I’m advocating for an ES model, then that’s my answer. But I also think that it depends on what you mean by “better”.

Emerging Evidence For Recovery Techniques

May 2, 2018 Advanced Concepts, Application Articles, Coaching, General Training, Recovery, Training Tactics Jim Elli

I recently came across this review article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.00403/full

I quickly noted that they ranked massage as one of the best recovery modalities around. And if course then I remembered that I wrote an article last year saying that (n=1) I got no real results from it. You can read that article here: https://articles.reactivetrainingsystems.com/2017/09/05/whats-the-recovery-value-of-a-massage/

This seemed like a great chance for me to update my thoughts a bit, so I looked into it further. It seems that, for most people, massage is effective at reducing fatigue and soreness beyond just resting. And it worked better than the other methods that were reviewed as well. That wasn’t my experience at all, so I wanted to reconcile these two observations.

Leadership, Relationship, Creativity

April 4, 2018 Advanced Concepts, Coaching, Coaching Process, General Training, Program Articles Jim Elli

By Mike Tuchscherer 2 April 2018

There are no magic programs. Coaching is about a lot more than writing a good program. Of course writing a good program as part of being a good powerlifting coach especially in an online setting but to think that there is just writing the program is to misunderstand the process and to do a serious disservice to all the clients who put their trust in you. Read more…