Cleans makes you a better lifter
Even the most serious lifters in today's gyms rarely attempt exercises more complex than squats, deadlifts, and bench presses — all of which are great exercises for strength and size development. But adding power cleans to your programs can make you better at those lifts.

"When you build explosive strength, you train the muscles to more readily activate the higher-threshold motor units," says author, coach, and neurophysiology Chad Waterbury. "The best bench pressers in the world have tons of explosive strength. If you've ever watched a world-champion bench presser train, you'll notice how fast the barbell accelerates compared to the lesser mortals."

You'll also develop better balance and coordination, improving your form on front squats and other classic muscle-building exercises.

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Psychological Skills Training

Psychological Skills Training (PST) has brought its self to the forefront in any sports training and is now starting to be recognized as one of the founding factors in training of any athletes or clients. The four most prominent methods used by athletes and pushed by coaches would be : Goal Setting , Self Talk , Mental Imagery and Mental rehearsal , and Relaxation. Studies and some coaches say that PST can attribute to 50-90% of the athletes performance.

Links regarding PST

http://www.athletics-training.com/articles/sports-psychology.html

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/articles/article001.htm

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/psychological-skills-training.htm

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SLOME (Science , London , Oxford , Middlesex , Elgin ) was a great sucess yesterday with an outstanding 2, 500 students from different schools ranging from grades 7-12 all blessing us with the opportunity to speak to them about Fitness Science and Technology.
We had interesting and challenging competitions for the students including a Bicycle Power Test , and a Push Up Competition.
All competitors were good sports and gave it their all and deserve a big GREAT WORK!!
Results are as followed:

Push Up Competition;
Males: Aaron ( Catholic Central High School ) 69 pushups
Females: Kassidy ( Northridge Public School ) 55 pushups

Bicycle Power Test; (PP= Peak Power   AP= Average Power)
Ryan ( St Josephs Public School ) PP= 5.9w/kg    AP= 3.6w/kg
Abbey  ( St Marys Choir Public School ) PP= 6.6w/kg    AP= 4.58w/kg
Delaney ( Catholic Central High School ) PP= 5.5w/kg     AP= 3.6w/kg
Sarah ( Regina Mundi Collegiate ) PP= 7.4w/kg    AP= 4.7w/kg
Brady ( Medway High School ) PP= 10.3w/kg     AP= 7.0w/kg

Great Job To All Competitors!!!!

Looking forward to joining my fellow Medix Students in showing off what we are made of at SLOME tomorrow at the Western Fair Grounds . of course P.F.C. will take the show !!!