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A Myth of Olympic Weightlifting
April 12, 2017
A Myth of Olympic Weightlifting Andrew ‘Bud’ Charniga www.sportivnypress.com Figure 1. Weightlifters are able to react in the event of unanticipated circumstances and avoid injury because of their dynamic training and elasticity. They develop injury avoidance mechanisms from their …
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Practical solutions to the problem of Achilles rupture and the proliferation of injuries to the lower extremities of football players
February 14, 2017
Part II: Practical solutions to the problem of Achilles rupture and the proliferation of injuries to the lower extremities of football players Andrew ‘Bud’ Charniga “If you stretch a spring and release it, it will spring back.” R.McN. Alexander, 1988 …
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Achilles Tendon Ruptures and the NFL
February 09, 2017
Reverse Engineering Injury Mechanism: Achilles Tendon Ruptures and the NFL Andrew Charniga SportivnyPress.com 2016 “The speed at which animals can turn depends on the forces involved in cornering, and larger animals need to produce greater forces for any given turn. …
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Russian Training: Part IV*
October 15, 2016
Russian Training Part IV* An unfortunate sign of the times, articles such as this and especially competition reports, in the future will have to be affixed with an asterisk. The all too obvious reason being the results of today’s competitions …
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The Russian Weightlifting Library
The Russian Weightlifting Library is compilation of articles (weightlifting yearbooks - called Yezhegodnik in Russian) and books written by prominent Soviet era sport scientists.
The article compilations (yearbooks) and books cover a wide range of topics from weightlifting technique, training methodology, planning training, restoration, analysis of the training and technique of eilte weightlifters; research of strength training methodology and so forth. All texts are translated directly from the original Russian to English.