For this week's "Thursday Throwback," I have selected an article that sort of "piggy backs" off of the Throwback from last week on the "Top 10 Lifting Mistakes." In that article, I mentioned the one that follows here, "Train Easy, Lift Big." To give you a feel of the sort of article this one is, an alternate title could have been "Lift Big Using Russian-Style GTG Training." If THAT whets your appetite—or has you wondering what in the hell I'm even talking about—either way, you should find what follows interesting... Train Easy Lift Big Slovenian lifter Erni Gregorčič is an example of an East European powerlifters that uses methods similar to this article. The legendary Russian powerlifting coach Boris Sheiko once remarked, “he who trains more—lifts more.” For the most part, I agree with that statement, as many of the articles on this blog attest to, but you also have to put things into the proper context in order to unders...
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