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The Joy of Six: US Athletes’ Pushy Parents

By Les Carpenter — 2015

From Andre Agassi’s terrifying father to the dad who inspired a novel, half a dozen parents who just couldn’t let go.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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7 Ways to Overcome a Speed/Power Plateau and Become a Better Athlete: Part I

Plateaus are tough mothers. They happen for a few reasons, but a big one is that the human body really doesn’t like to go outside of its’ safe little shell. The brain also doesn’t like to move outside of its’ cave.

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Just Fly Sports Performance
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Have We Reached the Athletic Limits of the Human Body?

Record-breaking has slowed, but science could find new ways to make us keep getting stronger and faster.

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Bret Stetka
2016
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Overload Principle: Training with Purpose

Plateauing happens to athletes at all levels. It’s good for training regimens to become a way of life, but doing those sessions over and over again can become like mindlessly checking a box. Inputs remain the same–which can be detrimental to increasing performance outputs.

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Nate Martins
2019
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Battling Plateaus

Plateaus – aka periods of little to no progress – are inevitable in the sport of weightlifting.

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Mash Elite Performance
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Stuck in a Rut? How to Avoid Plateauing in the Weight Room

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever hit a plateau in the weight room when it comes to increasing strength? What about when it comes to increasing power output (vertical jump, short-distance sprint)? Well if you have, you are not alone.

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Pedro Mendez
2020
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Plateaus: Practice Without Progress

“It was a downward spiral for about three years. I just reached a natural point where I felt that I wasn’t going to see immediate results anymore and that was hard for me to accept. I did the same thing every single day for so long that I could just tell I was not improving.

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Maya Rathore
2019
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