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9 Things I Learned At a Starting Strength Gym

This holiday season, I had the great fortune of interning and training at a Starting Strength gym.  In this environment, I made several observations of what separates Westminster Strength & Conditioning (WSC):  A Starting Strength Gym from other gyms I have either been a member or trained throughout my extensive travels.  Here are the 9 things I learned while interning and...

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Strong Like You

  Many interesting things happen when you begin training with a barbell.  The very first time you push up against the steel to take the bar out of the rack a series of events at the cellular level are kick started and the body is never again the same.  Like a shock wave from a blast, these events cannot be stopped.  The body is forced to adapt, and adapting is what it does...

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Build Strength – It’s Important

The process of building physical strength is the same regardless of age or gender.  Strength is the basis for all other physical capacities and efficiently building a solid foundation of strength will have an immediate impact on all other aspects of your fitness.  An athletes ability to run faster, jump high, or hit hard is dependent on their ability to produce force against an external...

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Strength Training and Youth Athletics

Somewhere along the way youth athletics have turned into a year around activity.  I’m an implant to Maryland so the popularity of Lacrosse was lost on me until I moved here in 2006.  Actually it wasn’t until 2010 when I opened up WS&C that I fully understood just how big lacrosse was in this state.  It didn’t take long before parents of all different sports began calling or stopping...

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The Measure of a Man

Anthropometry (Greek anthropos – “man”) and (metron – “measure”) “Measurement of Man” In a previous life I may have spent some time working as an interrogator in Iraq.  It was fun, I enjoyed it and I was pretty good at it.  I often was asked to handle the more “difficult” subjects, apparently because I had a knack at getting someone to speak with me.  I’m not...

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You are You and I am Me

When we opened the doors of CFR and WS&C a few years ago one thing I was not expecting was a large portion of our membership would be females. I mean, we squat, press and pull heavy 5 days a week. There is no AC, only barbells and squat racks. I was a strength coach for the military and I assumed what type of person would be walking in the door. Very quickly I found this was not the case....

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