»If you offer me one million euros and ask me to move to the mountain, to be a shepherd, and not to lift weights again, I would negotiate, to take only half and I would be allowed to take a barbell with me. And the only exercise I would do is power Snatch« said Mikhail Koklyaev at a seminar we hosted at my gym.

We have had the opportunity to train many young athletes, many who are professional athletes. Unfortunately, most of them start training with us as part of their rehab post-injury. One of the worst injuries an athlete can endure is an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. In multi-directional sports, this seems to be one of the biggest career-ending injuries.

In gyms whose core business includes group training or team training, as we like to call it, there is a constant battle, and ultimately compromise, between variety and consistency in exercise selection when designing the programs. On the one hand, we know that to progress, we need to be consistent in the main lifts or movements, and apply the principle of progressive overload.