In contrast to today’s abundance of strength coaching and personal training organizations offering journals edited by PhDs, muscle magazines were one of the primary sources of training information in the early days of strength coaching. As a strength coach, Poliquin “talked the walk” and, spouting 19+ inch bone-crushing pythons for arms, “walked the talk!” In track and field, he worked with 2004 gold medal winners Dwight Phillips (long jump) and Adam Nelson (shot put), and in 1999 worked with Jamaican hurdler Michelle Freeman, an Olympian who now coaches at the University of Virginia. What do they all have in common? Charles Poliquin, a Canadian strength coach who introduced these ideas and many others to the athletic and physical fitness communities.įor those new to the Iron Game, Poliquin coached Olympians in two dozen sports and hundreds of elite athletes in other sports. ![]() German Volume Training, German Body Comp, and four-digit strength training tempo prescriptions are training methods commonly practiced today.
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