Essays and commentary on a variety of topics including textbooks on strength training, debunking myths of strength training, and the like.
Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com Pandemics can bring with them shortages of consumer goods such as toilet paper, hand sanitizer, protective masks, ventilators and the like; but, in America, hucksters, charlatans and skilled purveyors of snake oil will always be in abundance. This truism is readily apparent; just find all manner of products for sale in the …
Reverse Engineering Injury Mechanism and the Consequences of Forward Engineering Andrew ‘Bud’ Charniga Sportivnypress.com Squatting under and receiving a heavy barbell at high speed without negative consequences; disproves the common myth ligaments and joints are susceptible to injury from fast, large range of motion exercises. Charniga photo. Five previous essays explored the possibility of a …
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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 training. The overwhelming majority of exercises are dynamic: fast contraction conjoined with rapid relaxation of …
Its All Connected Part II Andrew Charniga, Jr. Sportivnypress.com© A logical critique of: “Rational and Implementation of Anterior Ligament Injury Prevention Warm – UP Programs in Female Athletes”, D. P. Bien, 2011 J Strength & Cond Research 25(1): 271 – 285, 2011 As has been already noted the central thesis of the article which inspired …
It’s All Connected Andrew Charniga, Jr. Sportivnypress.com© Foreword Stuart Firestein (2012) wrote “ignorance will always grow faster than knowledge”. Never were truer words written. No matter how new the knowledge of the day, old ideas, recycled bias, masquerading as science, always manage to remain in place. In his treatise, The Mismeasure of Man, Steven J. …